Your Body, Your Baby, Your Birth

An essential guide to feeling confident at every stage of your pregnancy: Your Body, Your Baby, Your Birth is the pregnant woman’s bible.

Written by leading Midwife Jenny Smith, this outstandingly comprehensive handbook is for every woman who wants to feel calm and in control throughout her pregnancy, birth and beyond.

In the book, Jenny Smith gently guides the reader through each stage of pregnancy, labour and birth and the first six weeks of a baby’s wife. Your Body, Your Baby, Your Birth: The Essential Guide to Feeling Confident at Every Stage of Your Pregnancy and Birth instils in mothers-to-be a confident and positive mindset and prepares them for every eventuality. With a wealth of practical advice, ranging from how to cope with physical changes in the body and diet adjustments, to what to do if your birth doesn’t go quite how you’d planned, this book is designed to make the woman feel undaunted at every stage.

Using case studies and tried and tested mental preparation techniques, this book puts expectant mothers firmly in the driving seat, offering them the confidence to cope with whatever pregnancy and birth may throw at them.

Find out:

Exactly what you can do during pregnancy to help alleviate uncomfortable symptoms and prepare for birth

All about the NHS system and how you can make it work best for you – including the choices available to you and a who’s who of antenatal care

How you can have the birth you want – whether you are a so-called ‘high-risk’ first-timer or a second-timer who wants a better birth this time round

What actually happens when you go into labour and how you can cope with every eventuality

All about your newborn and the first six weeks of your baby’s life

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‘I cannot rate this book highly enough. All parents-to-be need a copy.’ – Gabby Logan

Jenny Smith has been a midwife for almost thirty years, during which time she has delivered around 1,000 babies. Right now, she is Head Midwife at leading maternity hospital Queen Charlotte’s in London. Passionate about her work, she has a devoted following and has delivered the babies of several celebrity mums. She has won awards for her pioneering work with water births and her specialist fields include high-risk pregnancies and deliveries. She has four children of her own.

May 2009