Synopses & Reviews
The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy meets What to Expect When You're Expecting for today's professional black womanThe Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy is a straight-talking handbook to pregnancy with contributions by doctors and personal stories from black women and celebrity moms.
Kimberly Seals-Allers offers candid advice on specific health concerns affecting black women such as high blood pressure, sickle cell disease, diabetes, and low birth weight, as well as information about how to get your finances in order, how to cope with embarrassing pigmentation and hair texture changes, single-parenting, maternity fashion, how to deal with demanding jobs and hormone-induced meltdowns.
Hip, funny, and refreshingly frank, this book is a must-have for all mothers-to-be.
About the Author
Kimberly Seals-Allers is an award-winning journalist, a respected personal finance expert, and a public speaker. Seals-Allers most recently served as a senior editor at Essence magazine. Previously she was a reporter and staff writer for Fortune magazine. Seals-Allers has also worked at the New York Post and the Times (London) and has written for Ladies' Home Journal, Real Simple, The Independent (London), and numerous other newspapers and magazines. She is also the founder of www.mochamanual.com, the fastest-growing online lifestyle destination for moms of color. She currently resides on Long Island, New York.