When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads: A Complete Resource (Harperresource Books)
Format: Bargain Price
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: June 01, 1999
Sales Rank: 49145
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Editorial Review:
Book Description:
You're expecting more than one baby? Congratulations! Like all mothers-to-be, you're experiencing the full spectrum of human emotions: joy, fear, confusion, and excitement; maybe all at once. As a woman pregnant with more than one baby, you're feeling all these things...only more so!
In When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads,Dr. Barbara Luke, a renowned expert on the prenatal care of multiples, outlines a practical, nutrition-based program to keep you and your babies healthy and offers a comprehensive tour of what you can expect during your unique pregnancy and childbirth experience. Women who follow this program experience significantly fewer complications during pregnancy -- and their babies are born weighing 20 to 35 percent more than the average twin, triplet, or quad! Included is crucial information on:
- finding a qualified maternal/fetal medicine specialist
- dietary guidelines for maximizing birth weight
- safe limits on exercise and physical activity
- taking a leave from work and negotiating your best deal
- reducing your risk for pregnancy complications
- recognizing signs of preterm labor and what to do about
Effective, encouraging, and up-to-date, When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads is essential for you and your babies.
Amazon.com:
The double whammy of successful infertility treatments and an increase in the number of women having children later in life has resulted in a staggering--but perhaps not surprising--phenomenon: a tremendous increase in twin, triple, and quadruple births. When You¹re Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads is an outstanding, much-needed addition to the pregnancy genre for women who face the alternating joy, terror, and ambivalence associated with carrying, delivering, and coping with young multiples.
Subjects like nutrition, mom's changing body and emotions, fetal development, potential complications, and labor and delivery take on new meaning when you add another baby or two to the standard equation. With the goal of minimizing risk factors associated with multiple births, Dr. Barbara Luke and her team of writers cover each subject with a buoyant determination to tell it all and tell it well--avoiding the typical 'how to name and dress your twins' issues. Accompanying the detailed medical perspective of Dr. Luke are personal experiences gathered from the journals of a few articulate moms, making each subject as real as it is educational. Simple illustrations, valuable charts (including one to plot and monitor fetal growth in grams or pounds), specific menu examples (like how can you consume 4,500 calories if you're expecting quads???), and lots of reassurance make this book a winner. --Liane Thomas
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- Excellent Book!!!This book provides detailed information to any woman who is expecting super twins. The information ... Read More
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- CondensendingI hated this book. While it did contain useful information, it also had a lot of stuff that I found ... Read More
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- DisappointedIts Ok.. I hoped for it to be a little more like What to expect when expecting.. I was disappointed
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- Excellent Book!I am expecting twins. This book is an excellent source for the nutritional needs required for pregnant ... Read More
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- Educational and encouragingThis book was invaluable during my twin pregnancy, explaining clearly how and why this would be different ... Read More
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