Nine Months and a Day
A Pregnancy and Birth CompanionBy Adrienne B. Lieberman, Dr. Linda Hughey Holt
This concise yet thorough guide to pregnancy and delivery is written by a doctor and a childbirth educator in a straightforward, practical, and informative style. A user-friendly reference, Nine Months and a Day offers checklists of questions for doctors at each stage of pregnancy, dozens of useful illustrations, tips for easing pregnancy’s aches and pains, lists of what to have in the house for baby’s homecoming, and the latest facts about matters such as household and workplace environmental hazards, Cesarean birth, cord blood retrieval, breastfeeding, and postpartum recovery. It includes all the essential information a mother-to-be will want at her fingertips.