What to Expect When You're Expecting
(Updated in 2025)
5th Edition
Published on 31. May 2016
656 pages
978-0-7611-9315-9 (ISBN)
Description
Updated multiple times every year, America's pregnancy bible answers all your questions.
- When can I take an at-home a pregnancy test?
- How can I eat for two if I'm too queasy to eat for one?
- Can I keep up my spinning classes?
- Is fish safe to eat? And what's this I hear about soft cheese?
- Can I work until I deliver? What are my rights on the job?
- I'm blotchy and broken out-where's the glow?
- Should we do a gender reveal? What about a 4-D ultrasound?
- Will I know labor when I feel it?
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Heidi Murkoff is the author of the What to Expect® series of pregnancy and parenting books. She is also the creator of WhatToExpect.com and the WhatToExpect app, which reach over 11 million expecting and new parents, and the What to Expect Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping underserved families expect healthy pregnancies, safe deliveries, and healthy, happy babies.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication and Copyright Page
- Thanks and More Thanks
- Contents
- Foreword to the Fifth Edition By Charles J. Lockwood, MD
- Introduction to the Fifth Edition
- Part 1: FIRST THINGS FIRST
- Chapter 1: Are You Pregnant?
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Choosing and Working with Your Practitioner
- Chapter 2: Your Pregnancy Profile
- Your Gynecological History
- Your Obstetrical History
- Your Medical History
- All About: Prenatal Diagnosis
- Chapter 3: Your Pregnancy Lifestyle
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Chapter 4: Nine Months of Eating Well
- Nine Basic Principles for Nine Months of Healthy Eating
- The Pregnancy Daily Dozen
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Eating Safely for Two
- Part 2: NINE MONTHS & COUNTING FROM CONCEPTION TO DELIVERY
- Chapter 5: The First Month
- Your Baby This Month
- Your Body This Month
- What You Can Expect at Your First Prenatal Visit
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Your Pampered Pregnancy
- Chapter 6: The Second Month
- Your Baby This Month
- Your Body This Month
- What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Weight Gain During Pregnancy
- Chapter 7: The Third Month
- Your Baby This Month
- Your Body This Month
- What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Pregnant on the Job
- Chapter 8: The Fourth Month
- Your Baby This Month
- Your Body This Month
- What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Working Out When You're Expecting
- Chapter 9: The Fifth Month
- Your Baby This Month
- Your Body This Month
- What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Sex and the Pregnant Couple
- Chapter 10: The Sixth Month
- Your Baby This Month
- Your Body This Month
- What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Childbirth Education
- Chapter 11: The Seventh Month
- Your Baby This Month
- Your Body This Month
- What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Easing Labor Pain
- Chapter 12: The Eighth Month
- Your Baby This Month
- Your Body This Month
- What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Breastfeeding
- Chapter 13: The Ninth Month
- Your Baby This Month
- Your Body This Month
- What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Prelabor, False Labor, Real Labor
- Chapter 14: Labor and Delivery
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Childbirth
- Stage One: Labor
- Stage Two: Pushing and Delivery
- Stage Three: Delivery of the Placenta
- Cesarean Delivery
- Chapter 15: Expecting Multiples
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Multiple Childbirth
- Part 3: AFTER THE BABY IS BORN
- Chapter 16: Postpartum: The First Week
- What You May Be Feeling
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Beginning Breastfeeding
- Chapter 17: Postpartum: The First 6 Weeks
- What You May Be Feeling
- What You Can Expect at Your Postpartum Checkup
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Getting Back into Shape
- Part 4: Staying Healthy When You're Expecting
- Chapter 18: If You Get Sick
- What You May Be Wondering About
- All About: Medications During Pregnancy
- Part 5: The Complicated Pregnancy
- Chapter 19: Managing Complications
- Pregnancy Complications
- Uncommon Pregnancy Complications
- Childbirth and Postpartum Complications
- Chapter 20: Pregnancy Loss
- Types of Pregnancy Loss
- All About: Coping with Pregnancy Loss
- Index
