Common sense pregnancy : navigating a healthy pregnancy and birth for mother and baby

**__Become a mama without the drama__** When you’re pregnant, your friends, the Internet, and even your doctor often give advice that leaves you anxious and overwhelmed. You deserve a calm, straightforward, no-nonsense pregnancy. It’s time to dial down the stress and dial up the common sense. __Common Sense Pregnancy__ is a breath of fresh air: accessible, authoritative, funny, reassuring, and personable, while still chock-full of comprehensive, medically-sound advice. Women's health expert, labor nurse, mother of four, and __Fit Pregnancy.com__ columnist Jeanne Faulkner has been at the bedside for thousands of deliveries and provides the honest insider advice you need during pregnancy, labor, birth, and beyond, including straight talk on: · Which prenatal tests you __actually__ need, and which you don’t. · Who’s on your labor team—and how to keep your labor room drama free. · What about sex? · How to deal with feeling lousy. · What works and what doesn’t for starting labor naturally. · How to avoid unneces­sary and risky medical interventions. Whether you want your pregnancy and birth to be all natural, all medical, or something in between, __Common Sense Pregnancy__ eliminates the fear and puts you in charge of your body and prenatal experience, and helps you make the right choices for you and your baby. An authoritative, back-to-basics guide to pregnancy and childbirth from a labor and delivery nurse and mother of four, featuring an advice-column slant and a refreshing sense of humor. A guide for modern parents-to-be that's chock full of comprehensive, medically-sound insider advice on pregnancy and birth that's empowers them to make wellness-focused--instead of fear-focused--decisions. Representing a departure from the other pregnancy books on the market, which are often panicky or overly dry and medical, Common Sense Pregnancy is a breath of fresh air: accessible, authoritative, and personable. Women's health expert, labor nurse, and Fit Pregnancy magazine columnist Jeanne Faulkner provides practical, no-drama advice on everything from getting through first trimester rough patches through dealing with the post-partum period. From the Trade Paperback edition. "JEANNE FAULKNER has worked in women's health for 30 years, first in doctor's offices, free clinics, and classrooms and then as a registered nurse, specializing in obstetrics, labor and delivery, and neonatal care. She began her career as a journalist in 2002 and currently writes the weekly column Ask the Labor Nurse for FitPregnancy.com. She contributes articles about health, medicine, food, parenting, travel, and lifestyle issues to such publications as Fit Pregnancy, Pregnancy, Shape, Better Homes & Gardens, and the Huffington Post and Oregonian newspapers. She's also the senior writer/editor for Every Mother Counts, a global maternal health advocacy organization founded by Christy Turlington Burns"-- Provided by publisher When You First Get Pregnant Choosing Your Care Your Pregnant Body Prenatal Tests Prenatal Education and Birth Plans How to Deal with Late Pregnancy Curve Balls When the End Is in Sight Are You in Labor? At the Hospital Labor Pains Other Labor and Delivery Issues C-Sections, VBACs, and More Once the Baby Is Born Processing and Healing Postpartum Having a New Baby Feeding Your Baby.