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You and Your Baby Pregnancy
By: Laura RileyeBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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The most up-to-date, comprehensive week-by-week pregnancy guide
As a mom-to-be, you have lots of questions. When will I start to show? How much weight will I gain? What are all those blood tests for? How long will labor last? This informative and reassuring guide provides expert answers to these questions and hundreds more in an easy-to-read format that coincides with each week of your pregnancy.
From a respected and well-known obstetrician, this is the most up-to-date, comprehensive pregnancy guide on the market. Now in an all-new edition, the book gives you week-by-week coverage of every stage of your pregnancy, as well as information that will take you through your final post-natal doctor visit to help you make sense of relationships, returning to work, weight loss, breastfeeding, depression, anxiety, and more. Reflects current obstetrics practices Covers home birth, water birth, doula care, and other popular practices Includes information on Epilepsy, Vitamin D, flu shots, common prenatal labs, life with multiples, obesity, and much more Expanded coverage of what happens when you go to the hospital, new recommendations on eating in labor, immunizations during and after pregnancy, and postpartum birth control Illustrations help clarify key concepts and material
If you're an expectant mom or dad, you'll look forward to turning to You & Your Baby: Pregnancy every week of your pregnancy—and beyond.
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| Title of eBook: You and Your Baby Pregnancy | |
| Release Date: 03-02-2012 | |
| Publisher: Wiley |
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You and Your Baby Pregnancy
Chapter One
the.1st trimester
Although no one would guess by looking at you that you're pregnant, the miracle of life has begun inside you. As your baby grows from a few tiny cells into a fully formed baby, you'll experience a natural process that is as wondrous physically as it is emotionally. This is a crucial time in your baby's development, and your body is working overtime to produce hormones and additional blood cells.
What's really exciting is that by the end of this 1st trimester your baby will actually look like a baby, complete with eyelids, a nose, a mouth, arms, and legs. Your sweet little baby will be able to move too. It will be a while before you see your beautiful baby, but the journey is well under way!
Weeks 1 through 4
Your Baby
Weeks 1 and 2
Even if you don't feel a thing (yet!), you're experiencing the amazing transformation of your egg into an embryo. Though the terms used to explain your body's changes during the first couple of weeks of pregnancy might sound clinical, they are a necessary part of describing the complex process of a baby's growth.
During week 1, your body sheds its uterine lining (that's when you get your period) and prepares to make a new one that's a hospitable nest for a fertilized egg. Meanwhile, about a thousand of your eggs make their way down the road to maturity. Only about twenty of those eggs will ripen inside fluid-filled sacs known as follicles, and then only one of those follicles will develop, ovulate, and rupture, allowing the egg (ovum) to start its trip down your fallopian tube during the 2nd we
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