What to expect when you're expecting

First things first. Are you pregnant? ; Your pregnancy profile ; Your pregnancy lifestyle ; Nine months of eating well

Nine months and counting from conception to delivery. The first month ; The second month ; The third month ; The fourth month ; The fifth month ; The sixth month ; The seventh month ; The eighth month ; The ninth month ; Labor and delivery ; Expecting multiples

After the baby is born. Postpartum: the first week ; Postpartum: the first 6 weeks

Staying healthy when you're expecting. If you get sick

The complicated pregnancy. Managing complications ; Pregnancy loss.

Foreword to the fourth edition / Charles J. Lockwood

Introduction : why this book was born again, again

pt. 1. First things first

1. Before you conceive

Preconception prep for moms

Putting it all together

It takes two, baby

Pinpointing ovulation

Conception misconceptions

Preconception prep for dads

2. Are you pregnant?

What you may be wondering about

Early pregnancy signs

Diagnosing pregnancy

A faint line

Testing for the irregular

No longer positive

If you're not pregnant

A negative result

Testing smart

Making the first appointment

Your due date

All about : choosing and working with your practitioner

Obstetrician? Family practitioner? Midwife?

Birthing choices

Types of practice

Finding a candidate

Division of labor

Making your selection

Pregnant and uncovered

Making the most of the patient-practitioner partnership

So you won't forget

3. Your pregnancy profile

Your gynecological history

This book's for you

Birth control during pregnancy

Fibroids

Endometriosis

Colposcopy

HPV (Human papillomavirus)

Other STDs and pregnancy

Herpes

Signs and symptoms of genital herpes

Your obstetrical history

In virto fertilization (IVF)

The second time around

Your obstetrical history repeating itself

Back-to-back pregnancies

Having a big family

Previous abortions

Do tell

Preterm birth

Incompetent cervix

Your pregnancy profile and preterm birth

Rh incompatibility

Your medical history

Rubella antibody levels

Immunizations in pregnancy

Obesity

Pregnancy after gastric bypass

Underweight

An eating disorder

Have a baby after 35

Is 35 the magic number?

The father's age

Uninsured, Mama?

Genetic counseling

Pregnancy and the single mother

All about : prenatal diagnosis

First trimester

First-trimester ultrasound

First-trimester combined screening

Chorionic villus sampling

It's a ... surprise!

First and second trimester

Integrated screening

Second trimester

Quad screening

Amniocentesis

A false screen

How to freak out a pregnant woman

Second-trimester ultrasound

If a problem is found.

4. Your pregnancy lifestyle

What you may be wondering about

Sports and exercise

Caffeine

Caffeine counter

Drinking

Smoking

(Don't) put that in your pipe

An early baby present

Breaking the smoking habit

Secondhand smoke

Marijuana use

Cocaine and other drug use

Cell phones

Microwaves

Hot tubs and saunas

The family cat

Is hot stuff not so hot?

Household hazards

The green solution

Air pollution

Domestic violence

All about : complementary and alternative medicine

5. Nine months of eating well

Have it your way

Try these instead

Nine basic principles for nine months of healthy eating

The six-meal solution

No more guilt

The pregnancy daily dozen

Count 'em once, count 'em twice

Vegetarian proteins

Can't find your favorite?

White whole wheat

A little fat goes a long way

The good fat facts

What's in a pill?

What you may be wondering about

Milk-free mom

Pasteurized, please

A red-meat-free diet

A vegetarian diet

Low-car diets

Cholesterol concerns

Junk food junkie

Shortcuts to healthy eating

Eating out

Reading labels

You can't tell a fruit by its cover

Sushi safety

Hot stuff

Spoiled food

Sugar substitutes

Herbal tea

Chemicals in foods

Something's cooking

Pick and choose organic

Eating safe for two.

Pt. 2. Nine months & counting : from conception to delivery

6. The first month : approximately 1 to 4 weeks

Your baby this month

Making the pregnancy connection

Pregnancy timetable

What you may be feeling

Symptoms? Starting soon

A look inside

What you can expect at your first prenatal visit

The wholly healthy pregnancy

What you may be wondering about

Breaking the news

For the other pregnant half

Vitamin supplements

Fatigue

Morning sickness

Your nose knows

Excess saliva

Metallic taste

Frequent urination

Breast changes

Lower abdominal pressure

Spotting

When to call your practitioner

No worries

HCG levels

Stress

Relaxation made easy

Expect the best

All about : your pampered pregnancy

Your hair

Your face

Your teeth

Your body

A day at the spa

Your hands and feet

Making up for pregnancy

7. The second month : approximately 5 to 8 weeks

Your baby this month

What you may be feeling

A look inside

What you can expect at this month's checkup

What you may be wondering about

Heartburn and indigestion

Bringing up reflux

Heartburn today, hair tomorrow?

Food aversions and cravings

Visible veins

Spider veins

Varicose veins

An achy, swollen pelvis

Breakouts

Dry skin

Eczema

Belly piercings

Come and go belly

Losing your shape

Measuring small

Measuring big

Difficulty urinating

Mood swings

Depression

Panic attacks

All about : weight gain during pregnancy

How much should you gain?

At what rate should you gain?

Why more (or less) weight gain isn't more

Breakdown of our weight gain

Weight gain red flags.

8. The third month : approximately 9 to 13 weeks

Your baby this month

What you may be feeling

A look inside

What you can expect at this month's checkup

What you may be wondering about

Constipation

Another reason for being tired, moody, and constipated

Lack of constipation

Diarrhea

Gas

Headaches

What's a corpus luteum cyst?

Stretch marks

Body art for two?

First-trimester weight gain

Boys will be boys

Showing early

Carrying multiples?

Baby's heartbeat

At-home dopplers

The heart of the matter

Sexual desire

Cramp after orgasm

All about : pregnant on the job

When to tell the boss

The pregnant worker's rights

Making the announcement

The juggling act

Staying comfortable on the job

Carpal tunnel syndrome

Staying safe on the job

Quiet, please

Getting all the facts

Staying on the job

Changing jobs

Unfair treatment at work

9. The fourth month : approximately 14 to 17 weeks

Your baby this month

More baby

What you may be feeling

A look inside

What you can expect at this month's checkup

What you may be wondering about

Dental problems

A gum alert

Pearly white wisdom

Breathlessness

Expecting x-rays?

Nasal stuffiness and nosebleeds

Snoring

Snooze or lose?

Allergies

No peanuts for your little peanut?

Vaginal discharge

Elevated blood pressure

Sugar in the urine

Get your flu shots

Anemia

Symptoms of anemia

Fetal movement

Body image

A pregnant pose

Maternity clothes

Looking slim when you're bulking up

Pre-baby jitters

Unwanted advice

Unwanted belly touching

Forgetfulness

All about : exercise during pregnancy

The benefits of exercise

Working in workouts

Can you Kegel?

Exercise smarts

Exercising the right way when you're expecting

Thirty minutes plus?

Shoulder and leg stretches

Dromedary droop

Neck relaxer

Choosing the right pregnancy exercise

Pelvic tilt

Biceps curl

Leg lifts

Tailor stretch

Hip flexors

Squats

Waist twists

Exercise in bed

If you don't exercise

Chest stretches.

10. The fifth month : approximately 18 to 22 weeks

Your baby this month

What you may be feeling

A look inside

What you can expect at this month's checkup

What you may be wondering about

Heating up

Dizziness

When too much is too much

Backache

Abdominal aches

The new skin you're in

Foot growth

Fast-growing hair and nails

Vision

Fetal movement patterns

Second-trimester ultrasound

A picture that lasts a lifetime

Baby's first mall portrait

Placenta position

Sleeping position

Carrying baby, fifth month

Class womb?

Carrying older children

Approaching parenthood

Wearing a seat belt

Travel

Jettisoning jet lag

Pregnant at a high altitude

Pregnant women are delicious

All about : sex and the pregnant woman

Sex through the trimesters

What's turning you on (or off)?

The ins and outs of sex during pregnancy

Sexercise

When sex may be limited

Getting comfortable

Enjoying it more, even if you're doing it less

11. The sixth month : approximately 23 to 27 weeks

Your baby this month

What you may be feeling

A look inside

What you can expect at this month's checkup

What you may be wondering about

Trouble sleeping

Save time (in a capsule)

Protruding navel

Baby kicking

Itchy belly

Clumsiness

Numbness in the hands

Leg cramps

Stretching away leg cramps

When something just doesn't feel right

Hemorrhoids

Breast lump

Childbirth pain

Bleeding in mid- or late pregnancy

Diagnosing preeclampsia

Labor inhibitions

Calling the labor shots

Hospital tours

All about : childbirth education

Benefits of taking a childbirth class

Choosing a childbirth class

Back to school

For information on pregnancy/childbirth classes

Childbirth education options

Classes for second timers.

12. The seventh month : approximately 28 to 31 weeks

Your baby this month

Baby brain food

What you may be feeling

A look inside

What you can expect at this month's checkup

What you may be wondering about

Fatigue revisited

Swelling

Take them off, while you can

Strange skin bumps

Lower back and leg (sciatica)

Restless leg syndrome

Count your kicks

Fetal hiccups

Accidental falls

Orgasm and baby's kicking

Dreams and fantasies

Preparing Fido and Whiskers

Handling it all

A birth plan

Some cookies with that birth plan?

Your main squeeze

Don't hold it in

Lifesaving screenings for newborns

Glucose screening test

Doulas : best medicine for labor?

A low-birthweight baby

Signs of preterm labor

All about : easing labor pain

Managing your pain with medications

Pushing without the pain

Managing your pain with CAM

Just breathe

Making the decision

13. The eighth month : approximately 32 to 35 weeks

Your baby this month

What you may be feeling

A look inside

What you can expect at this month's checkup

What you may be wondering about

Braxton Hicks contractions

Not-so-funny rib tickling

Shortness of breath

Choosing a pediatrician

Lack of bladder control

How you're carrying

Carrying baby, eighth month

Your size and your delivery

Your weight gain and the baby's size

Baby's position

Breech baby

Turn, baby, turn

Face forward

How does your baby lie?

Other unusual presentations

Cesarean delivery

Be in the know

Elective Cesareans

Scheduled classes for scheduled C's

Repeat Cesareans

Vaginal birth after Cesarean (VBAC)

Group B strep

Eat up

Taking baths now

Traveling now

Making love now

Your twosome

Considering cord blood banking

All about : breastfeeding

Why breast is best

Prepping for breastfeeding

The breast : sexual or practical?

Why some opt for the bottle

Making the choice to breastfeed

Nursing after breast surgery

Got pierced?

Mixing breast and bottle

When you can't or shouldn't breastfeed

When father knows breast.

14. The ninth month : approximately 36 to 40 weeks

Your baby this month

What you may be feeling

A look inside

What you can expect at this month's checkup

What you may be wondering about

Urinary frequency

again

Leaky breasts

Spotting now

Water breaking in public

Baby's crying already?

Baby dropping

Changes in baby's movements

Going down?

Nesting instinct

Getting ready

How is baby doing?

When you will deliver

Do-it-yourself labor induction?

The overdue baby

Massage it, Mama

Inviting others to the birth

Foods to bring it on?

Sounds like a plan

Another long labor?

Mothering

What to take to the hospital or birthing center

Fill 'er up

All about : prelabor, false labor, real labor

Prelabor symptoms

False labor symptoms

Real labor symptoms

When to call the practitioner

Ready or not

15. Labor and delivery

What you may be wondering about

Mucous plug

Bloody show

Your water breaking

Darkened amniotic fluid

Low amniotic fluid during labor

Irregular contractions

Calling your practitioner during labor

Not getting to the hospital in time

Emergency delivery if you're alone

Having a short labor

Back labor

Labor induction

Eating and drinking during labor

Emergency delivery : tips for the coach

Routine IV

Fetal monitoring

Artificial rupture of membranes

An episiotomy

Forceps

Vacuum extraction

Vacuum extractor

Labor positions

Being stretched by childbirth

Apgar score

The sight of blood

All about : childbirth

Stages and phases of childbirth

Stage one : labor

Phase 1 : early labor

For the record

Call your practitioner if ...

Phase 2 : active labor

On to the hospital or birthing center

Are things slowing down?

Don't hyperventilate

Phase 3 : transitional labor

Stage two : pushing and delivery

A baby is born

A first look at baby

Stage three : delivery of the placenta

Cesarean delivery.

Pt. 3. Twins, triplets & more : when you're expecting multiples

16. Expecting more than one

What you may be wondering about

Seeing double

everywhere?

Detecting a multiple pregnancy

Fraternal or identical?

Choosing a practitioner

Pregnancy symptoms

Eating well with multiples

Weight gain

What to gain when you're gaining for two or more

Multiple time line

Exercise

Mixed feelings

Insensitive comments

Multiple connections

Safety in numbers

Multiple benefits

Bed rest

Vanishing twin syndrome

All about : multiple childbirth

Laboring with twins or more

Twin timing

Position, position, position

Delivering twins

Recovering from a multiple delivery

Breastfeeding for two is good for Mom, two

Delivering triplets.

Pt. 4. After the baby is born

17. Postpartum : the first week

What you may be feeling

What you may be wondering about

Bleeding

Afterpains

Perineal pain

When to call your practitioner postpartum

Delivery bruises

Difficulty urinating

That first bowel movement

Excessive sweating

Fever

Engorged breasts

Engorgement if you're not breastfeeding

Where's the breast milk?

Should I stay of should I go now?

Bonding

Rooming-in

Recovery from a Cesarean delivery

Coming home with baby

All about : getting started breastfeeding

Nursing and the NICU baby

Breastfeeding basics

Keeping track

Engorgement : when the milk comes in

Next stop : easy street

The breastfeeding diet

Leaking milk

Medication and lactation

Sore nipples

When breastfeeding gets bumpy

Breastfeeding after a Cesarean delivery

Breastfeeding multiples

Bottle baby

Tandem nursing

Give it time

18. Postpartum : the first 6 weeks

What you may be feeling

What you can expect at your postpartum checkup

What you may be wondering about

Exhaustion

Hair loss

Postpartum urinary incontinence

Fecal incontinence

Help for leaks that won't let up

Postpartum backache

Baby blues

Postpartum depression

Getting help for postpartum depression

Thyroiditis got you down?

Losing weight postpartum

Long-term C-section recovery

Resuming sex

Craving more?

Becoming pregnant again

All about : getting back into shape

Basic position

Pelvic tilt

Leg slides

Head/shoulder lift

Workout rules for the first six weeks

Phase 1 : twenty-four hours after delivery

Phase 2 : three days after delivery

Close the gap

Phase 3 : after your postpartum checkup

Milk it.

Pt. 5. For dads

19. Fathers are expectant, too

What you may be wondering about

Get ready, get set ... then go

Dealing with her symptoms

A partner in parenting by any name

Sympathy symptoms

Feeling left out

Resources for dads

Sex

Expectant sex explained

Pregnancy dreams

It's your hormones (really)

Surviving her mood swings

Your pregnancy mood swings

Labor and delivery worries

Anxiety over life changes

Being there

Fathering fears

Breastfeeding

Your baby blues

Bonding

Keep an eye on her mood

Feeling unsexy after delivery

Postpartum sex?

Pt. 6. Staying healthy when you're expecting

20. If you get sick

What you may be wondering about

The common cold

Is if the flu or a cold?

Sinusitis

Flu season

Flu shot for two

Fever

Strep throat

Urinary tract infection

Yeast infection

Bacterial vaginosis

Stomach bugs

Listeriosis

Toxoplasmosis

Cytomegalovirus

Fifth disease

Measles

Mumps

Staying well

Rubella

Chicken pox (Varicella)

Lyme disease

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis B

Hepatitis C

Bell's palsy

All about : medications during pregnancy

Common medications

Keeping current

If you need medication during pregnancy

Herbal cures

21. If you have a chronic condition

What you may be wondering about

Asthma

Cancer in pregnancy

Cystic fibrosis

Depression

Diabetes

Epilepsy

Helping others with epilepsy

Fibromyalgia

Making the most of your meds

Chronic fatigue syndrome

Hypertension

Irritable bowel syndrome

Lupus

Multiple sclerosis

Phenylketonuria

Physical disability

Rheumatoid arthritis

Scoliosis

Sickle cell anemia

Thyroid disease

All about : getting the support you need.

Pt. 7. The complicated pregnancy

22. Managing a complicated pregnancy

Pregnancy complications

Early miscarriage

Types of miscarriage

You'll want to know ...

If you've had a miscarriage

Management of a miscarriage

Late miscarriage

Repeat miscarriages

Ectopic pregnancy

You'll want to know ...

Subchorionic bleed

You'll want to know ...

Hyperemesis gravidarum

You'll want to know ...

Gestational diabetes

You'll want to know ...

Preeclampsia

The reasons behind preeclampsia

You'll want to know ...

HELLP syndrome

Intrauterine growth restriction

You'll want to know ...

Placenta previa

You'll want to know ...

Placental abruption

Chorioamnionitis

You'll want to know ...

Oligohydramnios

Hydromnios

Preterm premature rupture of the membranes (PROM)

You'll want to know ...

Preterm or premature labor

You'll want to know ...

Predicting preterm labor

Symphysis pubis dysfunction (SPD)

Cord knots and tangles

Two-vessel cord

Uncommon pregnancy complications

Molar pregnancy

You'll want to know ...

Choriocarcinoma

You'll want to know ...

Eclampsia

You'll want to know ...

Cholestasis

Deep venous thrombosis

Placenta accreta

Vasa previa

Childbirth and postpartum complications

Fetal distress

Cord prolapse

Shoulder dystocia

Serious perineal tears

Uterine rupture

Uterine inversion

Postpartum hemorrhage

Postpartum infection

All about : if you're put on bed rest

Types of bed rest

Moms helping moms

23. Coping with pregnancy loss

Miscarriage

A personal process

Coping with repeat miscarriages

Loss in the uterus

Loss during or after birth

Postpartum depression and pregnancy loss

Lactation suppression when a baby dies

Loss of one twin

Why?

Pregnancy reduction

Stages of grief

Trying again

Index.

In the beginning: Are you pregnant?

What it's important to know

Now that you're pregnant

Coping with pregnancy loss

Next baby: Preparing for the next baby

Appendix

Pregnancy notes.