pregnancy

Obstetrician Hope Ricciotti offers pregnant women an overview of pregnancy health and nutrition, with information on vitamins, risky foods, exercising, minimizing morning sickness, managing fatigue, and losing weight after the baby is born, as well as nearly 150 recipes.

Presents information and guidance for new, expectant, and prospective mothers, covering such topics as ideal conception conditions, physical effects on mothers during each trimester, prenatal testing, labor and delivery, recovery, feeding the baby, complications and pregnancies with special considerations, and common myths.

Tells the story of Greg and Tierney Fairchild's experiences after learning the baby they were expecting had a heart defect related to Down syndrome, discussing how they reached their decision to continue the pregnancy, and following the infant Naia through her heart surgery, physical therapy, and happy early life.

Hyun Jin is disowned by her parents after they find out she is carrying an American GI's baby, and her best friend takes her in and helps her care for herself and her unborn child.

Offers information, advice, and tips on having a baby, discussing pregnancy, childbirth, caring for an infant, and handling the toddler, and includes information on common illnesses and disorders, and emergencies and first aid.

Discusses the importance of good nutrition during pregnancy; describes the Best-Odds Prepregnancy and Breastfeeding diets; and includes recipes for high-protein meatless entrees, non-alcoholic cocktails, and naturally-sweetened desserts.

A week-by-week guide that provides information about each stage of pregnancy, featuring illustrations that show what is happening to the developing baby and pregnant mother, and including a discussion of how to best prepare for pregnancy.

Sourcebook covering pregnancy and childbirth from conception through the first weeks of a baby's life. Includes information on physical and emotional changes during pregnancy, fetal development, eating and fitness, special situations, work concerns, and newborn basics.

Follows the stories of three expectant mothers who are carrying multiple babies, using advanced technology and four-dimensional ultrasound imaging to watch quadruplets as they develop in utero.