Planning for a Healthy Baby

Healthy parents produce healthy babies, but planning for the best start in life needs to begin well in advance - even before conception. Foresight, the aptly named association for preconceptual care, has discovered a variety of factors that can cause damage and ill health to the unborn. Happily, many of these can be pre-empted by a practical programme of health care that is easy to understand and follow. This book provides advice on preconceptual and prenatal care. The Foresight guidelines include advice on nutrition, family planning, toxic substances to avoid and common illnesses and diseases. Their blueprint for a healthy baby will be of interest not only to prospective parents but to doctors, midwives and all involved in childcare. Foresight are particularly active in solving infertility problems naturally. Belinda Barnes has also written "The Hyperactive Child" with Irene Colquhoun.