The best-selling Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth gives you the up-to-date lowdown on pregnancy, birth and coping when you first get home. This is a week by week guide to what's happening to you and the baby, from choosing where to give birth, coping with nausea and understanding the tests you will need, to breastfeeding for the first time and adapting to life with a newborn. Kaz Cooke offers no bossy-boots rules, just the sanest, wittiest advice you'll ever get, plus lots of cartoons. This fully updated third edition includes news sections on Getting Ready: advice on trying for a baby and Fertility troubles and assisted conception: what might be causing fertility troubles and what you can do about it, plus the process of IVF or other assisted conception if it's needed.
You'll find expanded sections on genetic problems, the caesarean debate, how to care for premature babies, choosing the right nappies for you plus information especially for partners from boosting their fertility to what they should do during labour. The Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth has everything you will need to know about the scary parts, the funny parts and your private parts. |
What The Press Say
I couldn’t put it down. The diary dates made me howl with laughter, but information sections were also incredibly useful. It was a constant source of reassurance and reason. - Pregnancy & Birth Magazine Hilarious, blow-by-blow, first-hand experience of pregnancy. Based on sound medical information, the book has a wonderful comic touch. - Discovery magazine Book of the Month. This is a really great read, packed with everything you need to know about giving birth, your body and your growing baby. It takes you through your pregnancy, week by week, in an entertaining, upbeat style, and is available in all good bookshops. - Mother & Baby A wealth of midwifery and obstetric input from UK professionals. . .aims to provide an appealing read for expanding mothers and confused fathers and is a sure antidote to all the usual glossy books that dictate to mothers what they should and should not do. . .extremely informative and fascinating guide on what exactly is happening to the baby as time passes. What really makes the book stand out is its relaxed and humorous tone which sets an expectant mother at ease. . provides gems of information that are essential to all mothers to be. . .Between pelvic floor exercise, legal matters and maternity dresses, the Rough Guide to Pregnancy & Birth covers it all. - Irish World |