You & Your Baby Pregnancy: The Ultimate Week-by-week Pregnancy GuideThe most up-to-date, comprehensive pregnancy guide on the market, delivering an unforgettable visual journey of developing life.Week-by-week pregnancy format is easy-to-follow, enjoyable to read, and follows the standard development schedule used by the OB/GYN profession.Detailed descriptions and eight pages of amazing full-color in-utero photographs guide expectant parents through a visual journey of the monthly changes of their growing baby.The only pregnancy book on the market authored by a leading OB/GYN who is a doctor, an academic, and a mother.Straightforward, comforting professional advice on the topics that are most important to expectant parents: having a healthy pregnancy, real-life labor, preparing for life as a family (both emotionally and financially), and juggling a career and motherhood.Exclusive interactive due-date wheel makes it easy to determine conception date, week of pregnancy, and delivery date.Special sections on labor and delivery, feeding options, and the first 12 weeks after babys birth. Important checklists, including one for each prenatal check-up help the expectant mother prepare for and make the most out of each session with her doctor. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Weeks 14 | 16 |
Week 5 | 27 |
Week 6 | 42 |
Week 7 | 53 |
Week 8 | 62 |
Week 9 | 71 |
Week 10 | 79 |
Week 27 | 217 |
Week 28 | 225 |
Week 29 | 235 |
Week 30 | 248 |
Week 31 | 259 |
Week 32 | 270 |
Week 33 | 281 |
Week 34 | 288 |
Week 11 | 88 |
Week 12 | 96 |
Week 13 | 104 |
Week 14 | 110 |
Week 15 | 120 |
Week 16 | 130 |
Week 17 | 137 |
Week 18 | 145 |
Week 19 | 151 |
Week 20 | 157 |
Week 21 | 164 |
Week 22 | 174 |
Week 23 | 183 |
Week 24 | 189 |
Week 25 | 200 |
Week 26 | 209 |
Week 35 | 295 |
Week 36 | 303 |
Week 37 | 308 |
Week 38 | 317 |
Week 39 | 325 |
Week 40 | 331 |
Labor and delivery | 340 |
Feeding your baby | 353 |
Postpartum and baby care | 363 |
Questions for your doctor | 401 |
Resources | 411 |
| 415 | |
Newborn tests | 422 |
Labor and delivery terms | 424 |
Index | 431 |
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