Pregnancy; Woman To Woman The Beauty, The Bliss, The Bothers CHAPTERS INTRODUCTION EXPECTING EXERCISE with a Women’’s Health Physio NUTRITION with a Nutritionist AVOIDING HAEMORROIDS DIABETES THE DARLING DOULA with a Doula SEX with a Sexologist SLEEP with a Sleep Consultant MENTAL HEALTH with a therapist GETTING TO KNOW COMMON BIRTH TERMS with a midwife/birth expert PRE-NATAL MASSAGE THERAPY with a remedial massage therapist PREGNANCY SCANS with a sonographer PREPARING FOR THE NEWBORN CRY with a health & wellness expert TAMING THE TABOO with a midwife/birth expert PLANNING FOR POSTPARTUM SIGNS OF LABOUR with a midwife/birth expert LETTERS TO SELF PREGNANCY AFTER MISCARRIAGE PREGNANCY AFTER STILLBIRTH PREGNANCY WITH MULTIPLES PREGNANCY VIA IVF PREGNANCY - SAME SEX COUPLE PREGNANCY - EXPECTING NUMBER ONE! OTHER THE LIFE ADMIN CHECK LIST GRIEF TIPS (SUPPORTING THOSE WHO EXPERIENCE THE TRAUMA OF STILLBIRTH) SURVIVING GESTATIONAL DIABETES ABOUT ♻ Printed Using Recycled Material Full Colour, 232 pages Illustrated by Catherine Malady Cover Art by Jacqui Porter Designer - Northwood Green Printer - Mark Print BLURB Pregnancy should be peppered with beautiful growth & innocent bliss as you patiently wait to cradle your darling bundle. With every minute that passes, your heart deepens into immeasurable depths. It's sensational as you witness your body take such natural lead. While delving into the sweetness, we should also appreciate the more peculiar and somewhat uncomfortable aspects of pregnancy life, should we not? Chubby ankles, niggling nausea, ferocious fatigue ... and a few unwelcome toots. In a frank, sincere and unfiltered tone, BEFORE sets off to explore the pregnancy terrain! Understanding the plethora of scans & the medical lingo, to learning about safe exercise, sex, sleep, nutrition, mental health + all of the taboo aspects women may associate with an 'ick' factor ... despite the fact we are all probably wondering, '...what's up with the swollen hoo-hoo?" A cast of brilliant professionals in the pre and postnatal space have joined the pages of BEFORE, as well as a collection of mothers who have written letters to their pregnant selves offering true understanding & light. Women carrying twins! Women in same-sex relationships! Step mums carrying their first little wonder, and women who become spectacular mothers after suffering previous loss, long hauls with fertility, IVF and stillbirth. This book is a palmful of love & solace for every woman who reads.
