Product Description: This comprehensive reference on pregnancy is written by doctors from the renowned Mount Sinai Hospital. These experts provide easy-to-understand information and careful counsel on everything related to pregnancy, from preconception to birth.

The information is organized in the following user-friendly sections:

• Before You Become Pregnant -- from genetics basics to parenting styles to avoiding risks like food toxins
• Your First Trimester -- information on screening tests, diet and nutrition
• Your Second Trimester -- expected body changes, personal care and comfort, exercising safely
• Your Third Trimester -- birth and newborn planning, childbirth classes, preparing for labor
• Your Labor and Delivery -- from birthing positions and the stages of labor to special deliveries
• After Your Baby Is Born -- newborn care, healthy parenthood, diet and exercise advice for breast-feeding mothers.

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Robert Rose (August 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0778802264
• ISBN-13: 978-0778802266
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #396,658 in Books

The Pregnancy Care Book (Paperback)

Product Description: This useful book gives sound, straightforward advice about prenatal care, analyzing and diagnosing high-risk factors, and describing the tests, medications, and procedures necessary for a healthy pregnancy. The authors offer specific ways to cope with the rollercoaster of emotions and medical issues that arise during this process. Beginning with a general guide to successful conception, the book explains the risks and addresses the most pressing concerns. Throughout the text, the authors check in with the men and women involved, showing them how to explore their feelings about the pregnancy, their emotions toward the baby, and how to build a solid support system.

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Hunter House (June 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897935209
• ISBN-13: 978-0897935203
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #999,046 in Books

Your High-Risk Pregnancy: A Practical and Supportive Guide (Paperback)

Product Description: What if my baby isn't healthy? What if I can't handle the pain of labor and delivery? What if something goes wrong? What if I'm not a good mother? Along with the excitement and joy of pregnancy and motherhood, most women experience mild anxiety as a natural part of the process. For many women, though, these anxious thoughts become excessive and even debilitating. Many women develop anxiety for the first time or experience an increase in anxiety symptoms during and after pregnancy, yet this is the first trade book to specifically address pregnancy-related anxiety.

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns; 1 edition (June 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572245891
• ISBN-13: 978-1572245891
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #323,722 in Books

The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook: Practical Skills to Help You Overcome Anxiety, Worry, Panic Attacks, Obsessions, and Compulsions (Paperback)

Product Description: Thankfully, pregnant women no longer have to disguise their condition or confine themselves to the home. They’re free to do other things — like enjoy an active sex life. This no-nonsense guide helps mothers-to-be maintain intimacy through all three trimesters and beyond. Using the real-life experience of one author and the professional expertise of the other, it covers a wide range of issues regarding sex and pregnancy, including the unanswered, difficult, and taboo questions and topics most people are afraid to address. It also helps partners develop new ways of communicating that help pregnant women relish life’s deepest expression of sexual union. With warmth and encouragement, it prepares women for the sexual challenges and joys of pregnancy and motherhood, giving them confidence and the tools they need to enjoy it all with verve, humor, grace, and joy.

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Hunter House; 1 edition (October 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897935012
• ISBN-13: 978-0897935012
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #108,075 in Books

Your Orgasmic Pregnancy: Little Sex Secrets Every Hot Mama Should Know (Positively Sexual) (Paperback)

Product Description: From conception to birth and beyond, this helpful guide teaches expectant mothers and fathers how to avoid preventable medical errors and have a successful childbirth experience. The guide includes tips on how to investigate healthcare providers, what to insist on for a high-risk pregnancy, how to recognize and avoid labor-room problems, why "keepsake ultrasounds" are dangerous, how to cope with insurance companies that refuse procedures ordered by providers, and how to make a hospital accountable during admission. This important resource will transform pregnant couples from passive patients into empowered consumers in the medical market and will increase their chances of bringing home healthy and happy babies.

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Red Flags Publishing; 1 edition (September 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979016207
• ISBN-13: 978-0979016202
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review:  
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #307,604 in Books

The Smart Mother's Guide to a Better Pregnancy: How to Minimize Risks, Avoid Complications, and Have a Healthy Baby (Paperback)

Product Description: Latina superstar Thalia is back with Radiante! a gorgeous guide for women seeking a fit and fabulous pregnancy. Having just enjoyed the same herself Thalia is the perfect woman to advise and inspire sharing nutrition advice fitness tips fashion dos and don'ts and so much more. She's broken the book down into trimesters (including the little acknowledged but very real "fourth" trimester).

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (April 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081185812X
• ISBN-13: 978-0811858120
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #309,825 in Books

Thalia Radiante: The Ultimate Guide to a Fit and Fabulous Pregnancy (Paperback)

Product Description: A Gallup News Service poll reports that half of all Americans believe in extrasensory perception, and psychic, or spiritual, healing. Kim O'Neill, a professional channel and mother of two young children, taps into the power of this raised public interest, and explains how a woman's natural psychic ability expands during pregnancy.

• Paperback: 278 pages
• Publisher: HCI (April 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0757307434
• ISBN-13: 978-0757307430
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,315,522 in Books

Bond with Your Baby Before Birth: How to Communicate with Your Unborn Child (Paperback)

Product Description: Baby stuff made simple Gurgle is a fresh, exciting new voice in pregnancy and parenting: upbeat, fully up-to-date and straightforward - perfect for the modern parent. Written by top parenting experts, and also featuring precious input from other like-minded mums about their own personal experiences, this is the book for modern mums-to-be. In an upbeat style that is a million miles away from the somewhat worthy tone a lot of pregnancy books adopt, Gurgle Pregnancy: How to Enjoy It gives you all the information you need from all the right people, and lets you choose what's best for you and your baby.

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Collins (March 5, 2009)
• ISBN-10: 0007289189
• ISBN-13: 978-0007289189
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

Gurgle Pregnancy: How to Enjoy it (Paperback)

Product Description: Doulas play an increasingly popular and important role on the maternity scene today…The Doula Guide To Birth is a comprehensive and thoughtful book that describes exactly what doulas do, how doulas work, how they can improve your childbirth experience, and how you can incorporate a doula into your labor and delivery plans. Highly recommended to all pregnant women who wish to be fully informed about their options.

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (May 19, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553385267
• ISBN-13: 978-0553385267
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #111,906 in Books

The Doula Guide to Birth: Secrets Every Pregnant Woman Should Know (Paperback)

Product Description: Starred Review. In this revealing collection of essays, 25 writers talk about their personal breastfeeding experiences. The beautifully written, heartbreaking first entry, Breast-Laid Plans by Heidi Raykeil is about how nursing her daughter for three and a half years helped her become whole again after the loss of her first-born child. In Motherhood Made a Liar Out of Me, Daryn Eller writes about feeling left out as the mother of an adopted, bottle-fed daughter and when asked in the playground if her child is weaned, she always answers yes. Dawn Porter's In a Man's World tackles the difficulties of pumping milk in the workplace, while Patricia Berry is clear on her decision in Because I Don't Want To, her husband and La Leche League be damned.

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press (March 25, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155832397X
• ISBN-13: 978-1558323971
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #64,124 in Books

Unbuttoned: Women Open Up About the Pleasures, Pains, and Politics of Breastfeeding (Paperback)