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Before Your Pregnancy: A 90 Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception |  | Authors: Amy Ogle, Lisa Mazzullo
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 44305
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 448
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 1
ISBN: 034544096X
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.2
EAN: 9780345440969
ASIN: 034544096X
Publication Date: September 2002
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Product Description
Before Your Pregnancy is a breakthrough book for prospective parents—a completely detailed resource that prepares mothers and fathers-to-be to conceive the healthiest baby possible, to make pregnancy and delivery easier, and to foster the mental and physical well-being of their infant child. Created by two experienced health-care professionals, this unique handbook not only discusses virtually every aspect of preconception that affects a healthy baby, it tells you how to handle each one. The authors spell out what each parent needs to do, starting at least ninety days before conception (the minimum time needed for sperm to mature). The hundreds of topics covered—many for the first time in any book—include
• Men’s Health: Building healthy sperm before conception (nutrition, fitness, and medical influences)
• Women’s Health: Gynecologic well-being, preexisting medical conditions, genetic legacy, boosting fertility, becoming a mother at an older age
• Becoming an Informed Patient: Choosing a doctor, what a complete preconception exam includes, important questions and how to ask them, insurance coverage
• Nutrition: Improving the health of future generations, preconception meal makeovers, ethnic Food Guide Pyramids, avoiding food-borne illnesses, vitamin and mineral facts, pre-pregnancy body weight
• Fitness: Preconception fitness evaluation and exercise prescription, safety tips and motivational anecdotes, preconception strength and flexibility workout
• Medications/Herbs: Baby-friendly ones and ones to avoid
• Personal Readiness: Emotional, financial, and environmental issues
• Romancing the Egg: Tips for success when ready to “start trying”
Plus: Separate questionnaires for the prospective parents to fill out in preparation for their preconception medical visit.
This warm, intelligent, and completely informed reference gives aspiring parents exactly the knowledge and support they need to insure the best of everything for their child-to-be.
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 This book covers everything. Very good book. September 28, 2009
Jackie O (UK)
This is a great book which covers information on everything you need to know before your pregnancy. Very informative on different issues, exercises, diet, etc. It tells you stuff no other book will tell you. I absolutely love this book. The best book on conception and pregnancy.
 A waste. July 23, 2009
Schmitty (Texas)
Luckily I didn't buy this book, I borrowed it from a friend, because I would have been mad at wasting the money.
If you've got good common sense and know the basics about being a generally healthy person then this book has nothing to offer. If you've never focused on health before and don't even know what the food pyramid is, then it's probably worth a read.
My friend and I renamed this book, "Common Sense - and Other [...] We Already Knew".
Good Info July 8, 2009
Meggi1123
This book has some very good information in preparation to get pregnant. The sections on the vitamins and minerals gets very text-book like. I think I expected a little more in this book about getting ready to help boost your rate of conception, like more on the whole timing and ovulation part of it all. While it did have some of this information, I was hoping for more. It was a good read, but really a great deal of the same info can be found in most pregnancy books that cover the "before". Overall, still good to read before you are ready to start trying, but takes a very cautious outlook.
90 Day Pregnancy book June 16, 2009
senoritalaura
Very informative and easy to understand book. I like the fact that it has suggestions for men as well as women. I also like how it tells why certain things are recommended and it also shows different points of views. You can learn a lot from this book and make wise decisions that fit your lifestyle.
 Before I got pregnant May 31, 2009
T. Steffes (South Dakota, USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I liked this book when I read it before I got pregnant. I had a very difficult first pregnancy, and developed severe pre-eclampsia/HELLP syndrome, and I had to have an emergency c-section at 24 weeks. My son Tyler was born weighing 11oz. and he lived for 5 days. I was racked with as much guilt as grief, I read my books over and over on how I could have done things differently. Turn out I have a gentic blood disorder, and I was able to have a healthy, beautiful baby girl, a year and a half later. I was highly advised that I not get pregnant again, and I agree. I don't write this to scare women, but to let them know that sometimes you can do everything "right" and things just turn out in unexpected ways, and it's out of your control.
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