Great Expectations: Your All-in-One Resource for Pregnancy & Childbirth - Sandy Jones & Marcie Jones

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Product Description

Congratulations! You’re pregnant! Welcome to the journey of a lifetime.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS: YOUR ALL-IN-ONE RESOURCE FOR PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH is the most comprehensive and authoritative resource available today to guide mothers through pregnancy, childbirth and the months that follow. Written by an experienced mother-daughter team, it is both reassuring and encyclopedic offering mothers-to-be nearly 700 pages of critical pregnancy information.

In this one volume, you'll find sound, practical answers to your every pregnancy question -- including how to choose the best obstetrician or midwife; how to fight morning sickness; when to tell your boss your "news;" the best infant car seat to buy; how to read your baby’s first sonogram, and the risks and benefits of common medical tests.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS' "Pregnancy Week-by-Week" section offers realistic drawings and descriptions of how your body and your baby change and grow with practical advice from conception through labor pains. "Managing Your Pregnancy" helps you with the everyday aches and pains of pregnancy, such as headaches, backaches and swelling. It offers great suggestions for what to eat with warnings about what to avoid. You'll also find plenty of tips for keeping healthy including great exercises to do, how much weight gain is normal, tips for stopping smoking, and practical mom-to-mom pointers on dealing with dads and emotional issues. "Your Guide to Giving Birth" is an informative, minute-by-minute labor manual presenting research-based suggestions for giving birth to your baby. You'll also find detailed descriptions of epidurals, inductions, and cesareans to prepare you for every possibility. Whether it's choosing baby duds, cribs, changing tables, car seats, diapers, play yards, or strollers, the "Baby Gear Guide" tells you the "skinny" on getting the right stuff and saving money at the same time. "Your Complete Mother’s Manual" holds your hand while you’re recovering from birth and helps to turn you into a pro when it comes to feeding, clothing, diapering and interacting with your new baby. The "Resource Guide" has hundreds of Web addresses for searching out stylish maternity clothes, to learning more about breastfeeding and circumcision, or locating baby product manufacturers. "Pregnancy Dictionary" has 60 pages and over 800 terms to give you a leg up on med-speak. And there's even a table to help you calculate your own due date. It’s all there, and packed into a single, easy-to-hold volume compact enough to perch on your nightstand, or to stash in your briefcase for quick answers to those nagging questions that keep popping up.

Product Details
* Amazon Sales Rank: #39981 in Books
* Published on: 2004-11-02
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 704 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
A consumer-friendly book filled with great women’s quotes, helpful information and tips for pregnant women and new families. -- Maureen Corry, Executive Director, Maternity Center Association

Emotions, physical changes, lifestyle changes, baby development, it’s all there. Get ready: It will get dog-eared from all your reading. -- Peg Moline, Editor-in-Chief, Fit Pregnancy

Fun, readable and full of good information. Helps to make the normal discomforts of pregnancy worth the bother! -- Sharon Schindler Rising, MSN, CNM, FACNM, Founder and Executive Director, The Centering Pregnancy & Parenting Association

Should be on everyone's recommended reading list! If you read only one book during your pregnancy, this MUST be it. -- Connie Livingston BS, RN, FACCE, CD(DONA), CCCE, CLD, Birthsource.com

The style of writing is clear, warm and very supportive. The breadth is terrific. A great reference for any question. -- Ann Stadtler, MSN, CPNP, Director of the Brazelton Touchpoint Center at The Children’s Hospital, Boston

From the Publisher
Highly praised by childbirth educators, GREAT EXPECTATIONS: YOUR ALL-IN-ONE RESOURCE FOR PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH has been expressly created for the intelligent, inquisitive woman who is seeking sound, research-based guidance, and practical advice about childbearing. It's designed to help readers keep on top of the complexities of medical, physical, emotional, and psychological experiences of this important life transition. The book allows them to rapidly navigate thousands of topics using its 150 "quick-reference" tables, bulleted sections, page-by-page headers, and detailed index. It collects all of the most critical new findings from hundreds recent obstetrical studies into one easy-to-read volume, presenting them as "flash facts" to help readers make informed choices using lists of proven benefits and risks for common tests and procedures. This notable, woman-centered volume also offers detailed information on genetic and glucose tolerance tests, labor augmentation and induction, elective cesarean sections, epidurals and other common tests and procedures. The book's low, affordable price makes it an excellent resource in the pregnancy field for parents-to-be, libraries, and for nursing students, childbirth educators, and organizations concerned with improving family life.

From the Author
We wrote GREAT EXPECTATIONS: YOUR ALL-IN-ONE RESOURCE FOR PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH to serve as a map and travel guide for the experience of pregnancy.

Maybe you’ve discovered as we have that most pregnancy books seem to be written by people who’ve never been pregnant, or who have forgotten what the real experience of pregnancy feels. Our book offers you more than simple platitudes and shallow reassurances, it supplies you with unbiased, research-based information without being preachy or judgmental about it. After all, there’s nothing more annoying than having someone wag her finger at you as though you were a child, or a chorus of people telling you what you "should" do. What most mother-to-be really need is the opportunity to become well informed, and then allowed to make up their own minds about issues and to base their decisions on real facts and not someone else's biases.

No single volume can supply you with all you need to know. You also will need human and medical support too. That’s why we consistently recommend that you seek the advice of a trusted healthcare provider, such as an obstetrician or midwife. (And we tell you exactly how to find the right caregiver for your needs). We also remind you that pregnancy and birth are natural, healthy events, and not illnesses. It's important to remember to trust your body with its deep, sophisticated built-in abilities to nourish and give birth to your baby exquisitely.

Hopefully, our book will make your process of carrying, birthing and caring for your baby and yourself easier and less intimidating. Please feel free to post feedback for us at: BabyGuide@citcom.net.