The Mommy MD Guide to Pregnancy and Birth: Tips That 60 Doctors Who Are Also Mothers Use During Their Own Pregnancies and Births (The Mommy MD Guides) - Softcover

McAllister, Rallie, M.D.; Reich, Jennifer Bright

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9780984480401: The Mommy MD Guide to Pregnancy and Birth: Tips That 60 Doctors Who Are Also Mothers Use During Their Own Pregnancies and Births (The Mommy MD Guides)

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ISBN 10: 0984480404 ISBN 13: 9780984480401

Publisher: Momosa Pub Llc, 2010

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The Mommy MD Guide to Pregnancy and Birth is filled with tips and advice from 60 Mommy MD Guides doctors who are also mothers. They re experts, squared! Combined, they draw from hundreds of years of experience as physicians, and among them, they have 146 children! The Mommy MD Guide to Pregnancy and Birth offers tips on both the challenges and the celebrations of pregnancy. You ll discover how Mommy MD Guides made it through pesky pregnancy challenges such as morning sickness, back pain, and heartburn. You ll also learn how they enjoyed wonderful celebrations of pregnancy, such as telling their partners the good news, attending baby showers, and meeting their babies for the first time."

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From the Back Cover:

Pregnancy is an amazing journey, but it also can be a nerve-wracking one, filled with questions and concerns. To whom do moms-to-be turn for the most trusted, reassuring advice? The Mommy MD Guides! The Mommy MD Guide to Pregnancy and Birth is filled with tips and advice from 60 Mommy MD Guides—doctors who are also mothers. They’re experts, squared! Combined, they draw from hundreds of years of experience as physicians, and among them, they have 146 children! The Mommy MD Guide to Pregnancy and Birth offers tips on both the challenges and the celebrations of pregnancy. You’ll discover how Mommy MD Guides made it through pesky pregnancy challenges such as morning sickness, back pain, and heartburn. You’ll also learn how they enjoyed wonderful celebrations of pregnancy such as telling their partners the good news, attending baby showers, and meeting their babies for the first time.This book is a reassuring look at pregnancy that’s filled with practical, actionable tips that work. After all, if a physician juggling a busy practice and a hectic home life or a resident working 110 hours a week used a tip, no doubt it worked. And if it worked for her, it’ll likely work for you too.The book is divided into 43 chapters, one for each week of pregnancy plus chapters about the baby’s birth. Each chapter opens with a “Your Baby This Week” section, which details his or her development over the next seven days, and is filled with tips about the topics particular to that week. In addition to more than 900 tips, the book also features the following three types of sidebars.When to Call Your Doctor or Midwife sidebars offer critical information about when to seek medical help.Mommy MD Guide–Recommended Product sidebars feature products that Mommy MD Guides found invaluable during their pregnancies, including cost and availability information.MomMy Time sidebars suggest ways for moms-to-be to relax, de-stress, and enjoy this amazing, wonderful time in their lives.The Mommy MD Guide to Pregnancy and Birth is the first book in the new Mommy MD Guides parenting book series. Welcome to the Mommy MD Guides!

About the Author:

Rallie McAllister, MD, MPH is a nationally recognized health expert. Her nationally syndicated newspaper column, Your Health, appeared in more than 30 newspapers in the United States and Canada. It was read by over a million people each week. Rallie has been the featured medical expert on more than 100 radio and television shows. She s the former host of Rallie on Health, a weekly regional health magazine on WJHL News Channel 11 with over one million viewers in a five-state area, and No Bones About It, a weekly radio talk show. Rallie s healthy-eating tips and interviews have been featured in dozens of popular publications, including USA Today, Women s Day, Better Homes and Gardens, Redbook, Family Circle, Parenting, Prevention, Men s Health, Women s World, Cosmo, Glamour, Health Magazine, Energy Times, Arthritis Today, and dozens of newspapers. Author Jennifer Bright Reich is the mom next door, navigating the challenges of motherhood by making the most of fabulous tips she has learned from her own doctors, family, and friends to parent her sons, 10-year-old Tyler and 8-year-old Austin. Jennifer is a writer and editor with more than 10 years of publishing experience. She has contributed to more than 150 books and published more than 100 magazine and newspaper articles. Jennifer created the website, DisneyWithKids, the site designed to save families traveling to Disney World with kids save money, time, and sanity. Jennifer proudly served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army for four years, including one year working directly for the three Commanding Generals of I Corps and Fort Lewis, Washington. After that, Jennifer worked for seven years on staff at Rodale before launching her own editorial services business, Bright Communications LLC, in 2004."

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