Before Your Pregnancy
A 90-Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception - Completely Revised and Updated
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Now completely revised and updated, this classic guide helps prospective parents conceive more easily and enhance their chances of a healthy pregnancy. Covering preconception and interconception well-being for both women and men, the authors draw on new research to demonstrate how good preconception health can reduce pregnancy complications and promote lifelong wellness. The rationale for a ninety-day guide is that it takes this long for sperm to mature and for women to prepare their bodies for pregnancy. In a warm, intelligent style, the authors discuss contemporary topics such as age, heredity, vaccinations, supplements, and weight. The guide includes easily accessible chapters on various subjects: - **Nutrition:** Meal makeovers and facts about fish, omega-3s, vitamins, and herbs. - **Personal readiness:** Assessing emotional, financial, and physical readiness, including a preconception-friendly exercise program. - **Informed patient:** Choosing a doctor, understanding insurance, baby-friendly medications, and genetic screening guidelines. - **Women’s health:** Expanded coverage of conditions affecting fertility and pregnancy, and optimizing immune health. - **Environment:** Environmental exposures and travel tips. - **Men’s health:** Lifestyle advice for maximizing sperm health. - **Conception:** Signs to indicate when to start trying and debunking common myths. - **Infertility:** Reassuring options for reproductive as
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Before Your Pregnancy, Amy Ogle, Lisa Mazzullo, Mary E. D. Alton
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2010
- Rilegatura
- (In brossura)
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- Titolo
- Before Your Pregnancy
- Sottotitolo
- A 90-Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception - Completely Revised and Updated
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Amy Ogle, Lisa Mazzullo, Mary E. D. Alton
- Editore
- Ballantine Books
- Pubblicato
- 2010
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 612
- ISBN10
- 0345518411
- ISBN13
- 9780345518415
- Serie
- Tag
- Famiglia, Salute, Genitorialità
- Valutazione
- 3,4 su 5
- Descrizione
- Now completely revised and updated, this classic guide helps prospective parents conceive more easily and enhance their chances of a healthy pregnancy. Covering preconception and interconception well-being for both women and men, the authors draw on new research to demonstrate how good preconception health can reduce pregnancy complications and promote lifelong wellness. The rationale for a ninety-day guide is that it takes this long for sperm to mature and for women to prepare their bodies for pregnancy. In a warm, intelligent style, the authors discuss contemporary topics such as age, heredity, vaccinations, supplements, and weight. The guide includes easily accessible chapters on various subjects: - **Nutrition:** Meal makeovers and facts about fish, omega-3s, vitamins, and herbs. - **Personal readiness:** Assessing emotional, financial, and physical readiness, including a preconception-friendly exercise program. - **Informed patient:** Choosing a doctor, understanding insurance, baby-friendly medications, and genetic screening guidelines. - **Women’s health:** Expanded coverage of conditions affecting fertility and pregnancy, and optimizing immune health. - **Environment:** Environmental exposures and travel tips. - **Men’s health:** Lifestyle advice for maximizing sperm health. - **Conception:** Signs to indicate when to start trying and debunking common myths. - **Infertility:** Reassuring options for reproductive as