What to Expect When You’re Expecting: (Updated in 2024)
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?
Your pregnancy explained and your pregnant body demystified, head (what to do about those headaches) to feet (why they’re so swollen), back (how to stop it from aching) to front (why you can’t tell a baby by mom’s bump). Filled with must-have information, practical advice, realistic insight, easy-to-use tips, and lots of reassurance, you’ll also find the very latest on prenatal screenings, which medications are safe, and the most current birthing options—from water birth to gentle c-sections. Your pregnancy lifestyle gets equal attention, too: eating (including food trends) to coffee drinking, working out (and work) to sex, travel to beauty, skin care, and more. Have pregnancy symptoms? You will—and you’ll find solutions for them all. Expecting multiples? There’s a chapter for you. Expecting to become a dad? This book has you covered, too.
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What to Expect
What to Expect is the world’s bestselling pregnancy and parenting series by Heidi Murkoff.
The What to Expect series is used and trusted by parents and medical professionals for a reason—it’s continually updated with the latest medical information, has over 43 million copies in print and provides the reassuring answers expecting and new parents need.
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Why do I need a book when there’s so much information online?
Researched and vetted by doctors, the books contain reassuring answers to hundreds of the most common questions, saving you from the dreaded Google rabbit hole.
Is the series up-to-date?
Yes! What to Expect books are updated with every reprint—sometimes multiple times a year—with the absolute latest information and best practices.
Do I need all the books in the series?
Not all at once—but the series grows with your child—from trying to conceive, to that first positive pregnancy test all the way to your child’s third birthday.
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Publisher : Workman Publishing Company; 5th edition (May 31, 2016)
Language : English
Paperback : 656 pages
ISBN-10 : 0761187480
ISBN-13 : 978-0761187486
Item Weight : 1.85 pounds
Dimensions : 6.6 x 1.75 x 9.8 inches
