Babycenter Pregnancy

Offers a detailed guide for expectant women, providing advice on the physical and emotional changes of pregnancy, information on fetal development, and firsthand tips from experienced mothers.

Practical and reassuring, this essential guide explains what happens at every stage of your pregnancy, from the latest medical advances to parents' real-life experiences. Covers the most popular online pregnancy topics and gives expert insight. Babycenter Pregnancy covers every aspect of pregnancy, from preconception through to the first weeks of life with a new baby, including parents' tips and comments, expert views, interesting statistics and polls.

An incomparable guide to every aspect of caring for an infant during the first year, jam-packed with the expert advice and real-world, mom-to-mom wisdom that makes BabyCenter the world's number-one online parenting resource. First-time moms and dads all share the same concern: Is my baby happy, healthy, and behaving normally? Through extensive research, the trusted editors at BabyCenter, the world's number-one parenting website, have created the ultimate bedside companion for new parents. This book (featuring all new content never before seen on the Web site) draws on nonjudgmental voices of BabyCenter's team of advisors and the experiences of millions of parents to paint a detailed, accurate, and helpful picture of a newborn to 12-month-old. In it you'll find: - Step-by-step guides to the "firsts," including first feeding, first diaper change, first bath, and more - BabyCenter buzz: helpful advice from BabyCenter moms from all walks of life - Milestone reality checks: results from BabyCenter's exclusive survey of more than 100,000 parents about what really happens when in their baby's development - Decision guides: pros and cons of breastfeeding vs. formula feeding, cloth vs. disposable diapers, and more - Just for dads: involved dads find all the help they need to truly co-parent from day one - Essential health guide helps anxious new parents spot and treat the most common illnesses of the first year

From preconception to birth - expert advice from the world's leading website for parents, Babycentre Produced with Babycentre - the world's leading parenting website - this up-to-the-minute guide to preconception, pregnancy, birth and the first few weeks with your baby, combines expert advice from health professionals with shared experience, suggestions and tips from parents, taken from the Babycentre online community. Information on what to expect at every stage of your pregnancy will help you make informed choices - from preconception to getting to know and look after your newborn. And a trimester-by-trimester guide tracks all the important milestones of pregnancy, covering antenatal care, maternal and foetal development. With top tips on practical care, understanding your emotions and a host of suggestions from other Babycentre mums who have been there too!

Locally adapted for the Australian market, Babycenter Pregnancy provides expert advice from the world's leading website for parents, www.babycenter.com This up-to-the-minute guide to preconception, pregnancy, birth and the first few weeks with your baby, combines expert advice from health professionals with shared experience, suggestions and tips from parents, taken from the Babycenter online community. Information on what to expect at every stage of your pregnancy will help you make informed choices - from preconception to getting to know and look after your newborn. And a trimester-by-trimester guide tracks all the important milestones of pregnancy, covering antenatal care, maternal and foetal development. With top tips on practical care, understanding your emotions and a host of suggestions from other Babycenter mums who have been there too! For extra info and tips check out http://www.babycenter.com.au/

Babycenter Baby covers all babycare and developmental issues from the first days after birth with a newborn to the end of toddlerhood (around age 3), using the "best of" distilled material from the Babycenter website. It also includes parents' tips and comments, expert views, interesting statistics and Babycenter.com polls. Special features and fully developed new ideas will follow as soon as chapters are agreed. The main content has been divided into four sections.

It is a truth widely acknowledged that if you’re pregnant and can afford one, you’re going to pick up a pregnancy manual. From What to Expect When You’re Expecting to Pregnancy for Dummies, these guides act as portable mentors for women who want advice on how to navigate each stage of pregnancy. Yet few women consider the effect of these manuals—how they propel their readers into a particular system of care or whether the manual they choose reflects or contradicts current medical thinking. Using a sophisticated rhetorical analysis, Marika Seigel works to deconstruct pregnancy manuals while also identifying ways to improve communication about pregnancy and healthcare. She traces the manuals’ evolution from early twentieth-century tomes that instructed readers to unquestioningly turn their pregnancy management over to doctors, to those of the women’s health movement that encouraged readers to engage more critically with their care, to modern online sources that sometimes serve commercial interests as much as the mother’s. The first book-length study of its kind, The Rhetoric of Pregnancy is a must-read for both users and designers of our prenatal systems—doctors and doulas, scholars and activists, and anyone interested in encouraging active, effective engagement.