Book description
This one-stop practical guide will show you how to prepare week-by-week
for a relaxed and confident birth. To make your progress easier, it
comes in a handy format with colour photos and expert advice throughout.
This book gives a complete overview of baby development through
pregnancy and birth. Its combination of conventional mainstream and
complementary medical info reflects the way most pregnant women approach
their care today. There's also plenty of information for the father-to-be.
It is full of lots of quick tips and realistic info, so is practical
and undaunting to use, but also includes web resources such as, for
example, checking on specific tests or finding decent maternity clothes.
Contents include: week by week overview; what to expect at
appointments; eating well; exercising and relaxing; labour and birth;
A-Z of common problems. “An indispensable bible for pregnancy and
childbirth” - Pregnancy, Baby & You.
“A practical guide broken up into accessible sections… Indispensable” -
Junior Pregnancy and Baby. Harriet Sharkey currently writes about
health for the Viveka Women's Health Centre, and has written on
pregnancy issues for numerous magazines including Pregnancy and Baby,
Babygro, Prima Magazine, and the Independent on Sunday. She was
co-author (with Yehudi Gordon) of Birth and Beyond (Ebury, 2002), and
The Journey into Parenthood. She has two young children.
