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What to Expect When You're Expecting

(Updated in 2025)
Series: What to Expect
Format: Paperback / softback
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Offers advice, insight, and tips for moms and dads, discussing pregnancy and birthing practices, prenatal screenings, postpartum birth control, and nutrition.

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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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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780761187486

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 May 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Workman Publishing

Edition: 5th Revised ed.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 38.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 748g

Pages: 656

About the Author

Heidi Murkoff is the author of the What to Expect(R) 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.

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