Before Your Pregnancy: A 90 Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception
- ISBN13: 9780345440969
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Before Your Pregnancy is a breakthrough book for prospective parents—a completely detailed resource that prepares mothers and fathers-to-be to conceive the healthiest baby possible, to make pregnancy and delivery easier, and to foster the mental and physical well-being of their infant child. Created by two experienced health-care professionals, this unique handbook not only discusses virtually every aspect of preconception that affects a healthy baby, it tells you how to handle each one. The authors spell out what each parent needs to do, starting at least ninety days before conception (the minimum time needed for sperm to mature). The hundreds of topics covered—many for the first time in any book—include
• Men’s Health: Building healthy sperm before conception (nutrition, fitness, and medical influences)
• Women’s Health: Gynecologic well-being, preexisting medical conditions, genetic legacy, boosting fertility, becoming a mother at an older age
• Becoming an Informed Patient: Choosing a doctor, what a complete preconception exam includes, important questions and how to ask them, insurance coverage
• Nutrition: Improving the health of future generations, preconception meal makeovers, ethnic Food Guide Pyramids, avoiding food-borne illnesses, vitamin and mineral facts, pre-pregnancy body weight
• Fitness: Preconception fitness evaluation and exercise prescription, safety tips and motivational anecdotes, preconception strength and flexibility workout
• Medications/Herbs: Baby-friendly ones and ones to avoid
• Personal Readiness: Emotional, financial, and environmental issues
• Romancing the Egg: Tips for success when ready to “start trying”
Plus: Separate questionnaires for the prospective parents to fill out in preparation for their preconception medical visit.
This warm, intelligent, and completely informed reference gives aspiring parents exactly the knowledge and support they need to insure the best of everything for their child-to-be.
Before Your Pregnancy: A 90 Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception
Tags: Before, Conception, Couples, Guide, Healthy, Pregnancy, Prepare
I ordered lots of books to get me through the expectations of getting pregnant and maintaining pregnancy. We have be going through infertility treatment for a few years and we will undergo In Vitro this week. This book is fantastic!
Rating: 5 / 5
As someone planning on getting pregnant in the future this was a great tool. In particular the diet portion and BMI.
Rating: 4 / 5
I found this book to be extremely helpful in planning for pregnancy. It was nice to feel some guidance and not go blindly into pregnancy without preparation. Not only was the book informative, but also humorous, which is always a bonus. There were several parts I skipped over (STDs, preexisting medical conditions, etc.), but I was glad they were there for those who need them and that they were easy to navigate past. I especially liked the chapters on realistic meal planning (even though realistically I will usually add on a dessert), and easy and beneficial stretching exercises. Thanks for humoring our silly superstitions and not completely discrediting old wives tales, but then giving us the real scientific facts.
Rating: 4 / 5
…not as helpful to future fathers as future mothers…
Rating: 4 / 5
I found the book to be a little too simplistic, but then again maybe making babies is a simple thing. The information is good and basic on taking care of yourself before conception but does not go too much further. Moral of the story…Eat right, Exercise…Don’t drink, smoke or do drugs (over the counter included)
Rating: 2 / 5