The What to Expect Pregnancy Journal & Organizer

Your Personal Pregnancy Companion

A Journal and daily diary to record all those memorable moments in the making of your baby—from the test coming back positive to the first ultrasound. From the first kick to delivery to the first cuddle.

An Organizer to keep track of everything pregnancy: practitioner visits and shopping lists, birthing plans and birth announcements, baby names and baby gifts.

An All-in-One Place to write down everything you’ll want to remember about the most exciting nine months of your life.

Introducing the totally revised and updated What to Expect Pregnancy Journal and Organizer – with 715,000 copies in print, it's the perfect gift and popular companion to What to Expect When You're Expecting. Lightweight and sized to fit into a tote or briefcase, this handy planner is an expectant mom's best friend from conception through labor and delivery.

For the new edition, the text has been brought completely up-to-date in accordance with the information in the recently revised third edition of What to Expect When You're Expecting. Featuring prompted pages, checklists, and a weekly write-in pregnancy and labor journal, this is the best way for mothers-to-be to keep track of important dates, questions to ask the doctor, medications, milestones, childbirth class notes, shopping lists, phone numbers, and everything else that comes with the nine months of pregnancy. The journal/organizer's compact design ensures it can go everywhere mom goes. After baby's arrival, it becomes an instant keepsake.

Heidi Murkoff is the co-author of the WHAT TO EXPECTseries (with Arlene Eisenberg and Sandee Hathaway) and author of Eating Well When You’re Expecting, The What to Expect Baby-Sitter’s Handbook, and the What to Expect® Kidsseries from HarperCollins. Her Web site is

Introduction: A Place for Everything

Part One: My Pregnancy Journal

The First Month

The Second Month

The Third Month

The Fourth Month

The Fifth Month

The Sixth Month

The Seventh Month

My Bed Rest Mini Journal

The Eighth Month

The Ninth Month

Weeks 41 to 42

Part Two: My Childbirth Journal

I’m in Prelabor

I’m in Labor

My Contraction Record

My Labor and Delivery Journal

Labor Memories

My Baby is Born!

Meet My Baby

Fabulous Firsts

My Hospital/Birthing Center Stay

We’re Going Home

Those First Postpartum Days

Part Three: My Pregnancy Organizer

My Prenatal Care Notes

My Health HistoryChoosing a PractitionerPractitioner’s RecommendationsPrenatal TestsPractitioner VisitsPregnancy Medical Finances

Pregnancy Trackers

Exercise TrackerDiet TrackerWeight Gain TrackerBaby Movement Tracker

Getting Ready for Labor and Delivery

Childbirth Education ClassesVisiting the Hospital or Birthing CenterMy Birth PlanChoosing a Birth DoulaPacking My BagWho to Call When Labor BeginsWho to Call After Delivery

Getting Ready for Baby

Choosing Baby’s NameBaby GearComparison ShoppingDecorating the NurseryBaby RegistryMy Baby ShowerBirth Announcement ListChoosing a PediatricianChoosing a Baby Nurse or Postpartum Doula

After the Baby is Born

Postpartum Care InstructionsBaby Care InstructionsBaby GiftsSpecial CelebrationsBefore My Six-Week CheckupMy Six-Week Checkup