Pregnancy for Beginners
21 crucial pregnancy decisions and how to make them....Where will the baby be born? Are you going to have all the tests? When will you start your maternity leave? As if being pregnant wasn’t a major new challenge to deal with already, suddenly you’re expected to make loads of critical decisions with no previous experience whatever. And everyone from your best friend to your mother-in-law is giving you different advice.
The worst of it is that you want to enjoy the pregnancy, not spend it fretting about when to tell your boss, or whether to have a caesarean.
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That’s just where a new book, Pregnancy for Beginners, comes in. Written by the author of the hugely popular Babies for Beginners, it takes you calmly through all the crucial decisions you may have to make, and a few that aren’t so vital but which seem hugely important when you’re pregnant (when to decorate the nursery, or whether to find out if it’s a boy or a girl).
Pregnancy for Beginners never tells you what decision to make – only you know what’s right for you – but it sets out the options clearly, gives you the pros and cons of each, the worst case scenario, key questions to ask yourself and other decision-making tools to help you find the answer that suits you best. So now you can relax and enjoy your pregnancy.
Contents of Pregnancy for Beginners
Decisions about you
1. How much to eat when you’re pregnant
2. When to tell family and friends
3. When to tell the boss
4. Will you go to antenatal classes?
5. When to go on maternity leave
6. What paternity leave to take
7. What kind of help – if any – you will need
Decisions about your home
8. Where the baby will sleep
9. When to start buying stuff
10. When to decorate the nursery
11. What to buy before the baby is born
Decisions about the baby
12. Tests – which ones should you have?
13. Whether to find out if it’s a boy or a girl
14. Choosing a name
Decisions about the birth
15. Where to have the baby Part 1 (home v hospital)
16. Where to have the baby Part 2 (choosing a hospital)
17. What kind of pain relief to have
18. Who will be at the birth?
19. Caesarian or not?
20. What to put in your birth plan
21. How long will you stay in hospital?
Pregnancy For Beginners -
21 crucial pregnancy decisions and how to make them
by Roni Jay
is available from June 25 2007
Roni Jay is a professional author who writes books on parenting topics among others. Her books include Kids & Co and Babies For Beginners for White Ladder Press. She is the mother of three young children and stepmother to another three grown-up ones. |
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