Understanding Your Moods When You're Expecting: Emotions, Mental Health, and Happiness -- Before, During, and After Pregnancy - Hardcover

Puryear, Lucy J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618341072 ISBN 13: 9780618341078

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007

Synopsis

An expert on women's reproductive mental health examines the emotional and hormonal changes that take place in pregnant women at every stage of the cycle, from pre-conception, through each trimester of a pregnancy, to the postpartum period, covering such areas as medications and pregnancy, eating disorders, bonding with one's baby, depression, and more.

About this title

About the Author:

LUCY J. PURYEAR, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist specializing in women’s reproductive mental health. She has been director of the Baylor Psychiatry Clinic at the Baylor College of Medicine, and was expert witness for the defense in the trial of Andrea Yates. She lives in Houston, Texas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0618341072
• ISBN 13: 9780618341078
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240