Synopses & Reviews
Your Personal Pregnancy CompanionA 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 youll want to remember about the most exciting nine months of your life.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
It all started with a baby…and a book. Heidi Murkoff conceived the idea for What to Expect When You're Expecting during her first pregnancy, when she couldn’t find answers to her questions or reassurance for her worries in the books she’d turned to for much-needed advice. Determined to write a guide that would help other expectant parents sleep better at night, Heidi delivered the proposal for What to Expect When You’re Expecting just hours before delivering her daughter, Emma.
Dubbed the “pregnancy bible”, the iconic New York Times bestseller is now in its all-new fourth edition, with over 18.5 million copies in print, and according to USA Today, is read by 93 percent of women who read a pregnancy book. Other titles in the series include Eating Well When You’re Expecting, What to Expect the First Year, What to Expect Before You’re Expecting (a complete preconception plan), and the newest member of the What to Expect family: What to Expect the Second Year, the must-have guide for parents of toddlers. The What to Expect books have sold more than 34 million copies in the US alone, and are published in over 30 languages.
In 2005, Heidi expanded the What to Expect (WTE) brand online with WhatToExpect.com – the interactive, state-of-the-internet companion to the WTE books, and home to a vibrant, vast, yet close-knit community of 3 million parents. In 2009, WTE went mobile with the WTE Pregnancy Tracker (the most popular pregnancy app in the world), the WTE Fertility Tracker, the WTE Baby Name Finder, and the WTE First Year Tracker.
Heidi’s passionate commitment to moms and babies led to the creation of the What to Expect Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping underserved families expect healthy pregnancies, safe deliveries, and healthy, happy babies. With a beautiful, culturally appropriate low-literac
Table of Contents
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