| Your due date -- Conception, implantation, and the first days of life -- Time to start taking vitamins and exercising -- Risks from obesity, smoking, and alcohol -- Your body starts to change -- Family diseases and genetic screening -- Miscarriage and ectopic pregnancies -- Healthy first trimester diet -- Fatigue and sleeping problems -- Surviving morning sickness -- Choosing a birthplace and a birth team -- Dealing with mood swings -- Doubts about motherhood -- Healthy weight gain during pregnancy -- Baby's first ultrasound -- Colds, flu, and allergies during pregnancy -- Hazards and toxins at work and at home -- Your first OB exam and prenatal lab tests -- Walking program for beginners -- Dealing with back pain and constipation -- What to do when your clothes don't fit -- Food safety issues with fish, meat, and cheese -- Great ways for your partner to provide support -- First trimester tests for chromosomal disorders -- How your friends react to pregnancy -- Food cravings and aversions -- Sleep problems and solutions -- High blood pressure and pregnancy -- Healthy snacks and nonalcoholic party drinks -- Importance of dental care during pregnancy -- Reading and understanding food labels -- Will your second pregnancy be like your first? -- Heartburn causes and cures -- Maternity leave and other work issues -- Mood swings, depression, and anxiety -- Reducing sodium in your diet -- Preventing varicose veins -- All about amniocentesis -- Sex-good and bad-during the second trimester -- Preparing older children for a new baby -- Late miscarriage: causes and symptoms -- Questioning your new identity -- Staying motivated to exercise -- Feeling your baby move for the first time -- Treating lower-back pain -- Pregnancy issues for single moms -- Alternative exercises for pregnancy fitness -- What you might see on an ultrasound -- Traveling safely while pregnant -- How your partner reacts to your changing appearance -- Signs of trouble to watch for -- Tips for your maternity wardrobe -- Eating smart while traveling -- All about high-risk pregnancies -- Chronic stress: your body and your baby -- Your ultrasound showed multiple babies-now what? -- Vacationing smart in mid-pregnancy -- Sex affected by a growing belly -- Stretching exercises for expectant mothers -- Once a cesarean, always a cesarean? -- Career protection for working moms -- Strategies for coping with nighttime waking -- Iron deficiency, anemia, and fatigue -- Taming your junk-food cravings -- Vegetarian diets and pregnancy -- Common skin problems in pregnancy -- Keeping your focus at work -- Feathering your nest: essential baby gear -- Breathlessness and other breathing problems -- Complete guide to preterm labor and delivery -- Multiple births: likelihood, detecting, and risks -- Childbirth, baby-care, and breastfeeding education -- Fats in your diet-good and bad -- Exercise: fatigue and when it's time to stop -- Hepatitis and other liver diseases -- Fighting the mid-pregnancy blues -- Staying hydrated: water and alternatives -- Choosing an infant car seat -- Tests during the third trimester -- Gestational diabetes: risks, causes, and treatments -- Surviving bed rest -- Complete guide to cesarean deliveries -- Breech babies-identification and risk -- Planning for labor: positions and pain relief -- What happens if your water breaks? -- Outfitting a safe nursery -- Numbness in your hands-explanation and relief -- Causes and solutions for abdominal pain -- Do you need a doula? -- Protecting your job while on maternity leave -- Practicing for labor-a guide to breathing techniques -- Placenta previa and placental abruption -- Why trying to do it all is overrated -- Due dates: calculations and guesses -- Supplies for your baby's arrival -- ABCs of daycare -- Parenting philosophies and parenting plans -- Assembling a complete baby wardrobe -- Will you need an episiotomy? -- Reduced fetal movements-when to be concerned -- Baby gear guide: strollers, backpacks, and more -- Truth about back labor -- Turning breech babies before delivery -- Grandparents and your new baby -- Planning for postpartum weight loss -- Delivering more than one baby -- Packing for the hospital -- Problems with your amniotic fluid -- Considering circumcision for your baby boy -- Earliest signs of labor -- Should your older children be in the delivery room? -- Starting a breastfeeding diet -- Treating persistent headaches -- Contraception choices for after pregnancy -- Nesting and a need for solitude -- Forceps delivery and vacuum extraction -- Labor day surprises -- What if you can't make it to the hospital? -- Truth about home remedies for inducing labor -- Your doctor's reasons and techniques for inducing labor -- Postpartum exercise and fitness classes. |
