You & Your Baby Pregnancy: The Ultimate Week-by-week Pregnancy Guide

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Meredith Books, 2006 - Health & Fitness - 455 pages
"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? Can I still color my hair? How long will labor last? This book provides expert answers to these questions and hundreds more in an easy-to-read format that coincides with each week of your pregnancy. It's the must-have book for every new mom--dads too!" -- from the publisher - (July 2006).
 

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Contents

Introduction
7
Weeks 14
16
Week 5
27
Week 6
42
Week 7
53
Week 8
62
Week 9
71
Week 10
79
Week 27
217
Week 28
225
Week 29
235
Week 30
248
Week 31
259
Week 32
270
Week 33
281
Week 34
288

Week 11
88
Week 12
96
Week 13
104
Week 14
110
Week 15
120
Week 16
130
Week 17
137
Week 18
145
Week 19
151
Week 20
157
Week 21
164
Week 22
174
Week 23
183
Week 24
189
Week 25
200
Week 26
209
Week 35
295
Week 36
303
Week 37
308
Week 38
317
Week 39
325
Week 40
331
Labor and delivery
340
Feeding your baby
353
Postpartum and baby care
363
Questions for your doctor
401
Resources
411
Prenatal tests
415
Newborn tests
422
Labor and delivery terms
424
Index
431
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

Laura E. Riley is a leading OB/GYN, M.D. and mother of two, giving her the ability to professionally understand and intimately relate to all elements of the pregnancy experience. Dr. Riley is a graduate of Harvard University and received her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She is the Medical Director of Labor and Delivery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She has committed herself to educating and serving pregnant women for the past 15 years. In addition to seeing patients, Dr. Riley teaches at Harvard Medical School as an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine. She has been quoted extensively in national publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and the New York Times. Dr. Riley has appeared on NBC's Today and CBS's The Early Show and has published articles in many peered-reviewed scientific journals and websites. She has also edited a number of books on pregnancy. She lives in Boston with her husband, Scott, and their two daughters, Natalie and Lauren.

Bibliographic information

TitleYou & Your Baby Pregnancy: The Ultimate Week-by-week Pregnancy Guide
You & your baby, Laura Riley
AuthorLaura Riley
Editionillustrated
PublisherMeredith Books, 2006
ISBN0696222213, 9780696222214
Length455 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Health & Fitness / Pregnancy & Childbirth
Juvenile Nonfiction / Activity Books / Coloring
Juvenile Nonfiction / Concepts / Colors
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