List Books » Getting Pregnant and Staying Pregnant; Overcoming Infertility and Managing Your High-Risk Pregnancy
Authors: Diana Raab, Harry Farb (Foreword by), Anita Levine-Goldberg
ISBN-13: 9780897932387, ISBN-10: 0897932382
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hunter House, Incorporated
Date Published: June 1999
Edition: REVISED
You Dream of Having a Baby. You just never dreamed conceiving would be so difficult. Or you never expected to have a high-risk pregnancy. Here is a sensitive guide to the medical and emotional landscape of these conditions, written by a nurse and medical writer who battled infertility and difficult pregnancies herself, and emerged with three healthy children.
The first part of the book focuses on infertility: causes and symptoms, female and male fertility tests, the latest reproductive technologies and alternative methods of conception such as surrogate parenting. The second section covers all aspects of high-risk pregnancy, including dealing with prolonged bed rest and the use of medications to prevent preterm labor. A special chapter addresses birth defects and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The book includes vital new information on amniocentesis; miscarriage; premature birth; and delivery options, including vacuum-assisted delivery, cesareans and vaginal birth after cesarean.
Woven with illuminating personal stories, Getting Pregnant and Staying Pregnant will give you the thoughtful, practical advice you need to help make your dream of parenthood come true.
Foreword | vi | |
Acknowledgments | vii | |
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Causes of Infertility | 5 |
2 | Infertility Testing | 26 |
3 | Positive Alternatives for the Infertile Couple | 42 |
4 | High-Risk Factors Before Pregnancy | 55 |
5 | High-Risk Complications During Pregnancy | 71 |
6 | Sexuality and Nutrition for Pregnant Women | 102 |
7 | Tests, Tests, Tests | 118 |
8 | Bed Rest and Medications | 148 |
9 | Miscarriage | 161 |
10 | Other Losses | 170 |
11 | Cesarean Birth | 190 |
12 | Premature Babies | 210 |
13 | Preventing Birth Defects | 231 |
14 | Genetic Risks | 239 |
15 | Issues, Ethics, and Decision Making | 253 |
Appendix A | The Reproductive System | 265 |
Appendix B | Postnatal Exercise Program | 277 |
Appendix C | Support Groups and Associations in the USA and Canada | 280 |
Glossary | 290 | |
Bibliography | 302 | |
Index | 305 |