Author(s): Sue Pullon

Parenting

The New Zealand Pregnancy Book has been used by thousands of New Zealand parents. A comprehensive guide to pregnancy and childbirth, it sets out clearly and simply what you need to know about:

• conception, pregnancy and birth
• the developing baby
• your changing body
• options for care and delivery
• midwives, doctors, obstetricians
• your Lead Maternity Carer (LMC)
• clothes, baby clothes and equipment
• feeding and looking after your baby
• coping with work commitments
• family and friends - the wider context
• joy, pain, and other feelings
• and much, much more

This book is designed to help-you make informed choices about pregnancy and childbirth. Questions range from deciding to have a baby through to the first months of a child's life. Up-to-date medical knowledge is provided throughout. And a full range of issues is addressed - from the diagnosis of pregnancy to the choice of nappies, from high blood pressure to home birth and hospital birth, from premature birth to breastfeeding and bottle-feeding. Author Sue Pullon has drawn on her own experience as both doctor and mother. She worked with a wide range of women to document different experiences of birth; complications, stillbirth, depression and cot death are covered, as well as all the stages of a normal pregnancy. In this exceptional guide how you feel is as important as what you do. The New Zealand Pregnancy Book is a marvellous resource for all New Zealand parents.