The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy » (Newly Expanded Second Edition)

Vicki Iovine is the mother of four teenage children. Since the success of The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy, she has gone on to write several books in the Girlfriends' Guide series, has lent her expertise in columns for the Los Angeles Times and Child magazine, and has served as a relationships correspondent for Redbook. She has also been a parenting correspondent on the Today show, Oprah, and The View. Vicki lives in Los Angeles with her children and husband, Jimmy Iovine.

For expectant mothers in need of a good laugh, this realistic, refreshing, and utterly hilarious pregnancy book offers great tips on dealing with body changes, maternity clothes, talking with your doctor, what to buy for baby, and more.

Publishers Weekly

For first-time mothers-to-be, this candid, funny and very reassuring guide to pregnancy is just what the doctor ordered-or would if he/she knew about it. Iovine, who has had four babies and who seemingly has girlfriends with many more, believes that women learn the really valuable things about pregnancy from other women. Since too few women in today's mobile society have a close circle of experienced female friends to turn to, Iovine's sharing of her own and her friends' experiences and knowledge fills a genuine need for comforting, straightforward, non-euphemistic woman-talk. Without stepping on any medical toes, and in language that is neither technical nor cutesy, she tackles morning sickness, swollen breasts, exercises, stretch marks, sex during and after pregnancy, delivery and just about everything else, from maternity clothing to bladder behavior. Iovine anticipates every conceivable question, and her responses are warm, wise and witty. (Oct.)

Contents

Foreword

Why I Wrote This Book

Top 10 Reasons to Suspect You're Pregnant

1 So, What Makes You Think You're Pregnant?

2 Sharing the Wonderful News

3 Pregnancy Is a Total Body Experience

4 "I Never Imagined My Body Could Feel Like This!"

The 10 Commandments of Morning Sickness

5 Pregnancy Insanity

6 You and Your Doctor

7 Prenatal Tests

8 Exercise and Pregnancy

9 Sex and Pregnancy

10 Looking the Best You Can

11 Partners of Pregnant Women

12 When the Old-Fashioned Way Isn't Working (Miscarriages, Multiples, Assisted Reproduction, and C-Sections)

13 Coming into the Homestretch

14 What to Take to the Hospital

15 Labor Begins (Finally!)

Top 10 Ways to Deliver Babies

16 Going to the Hospital

17 Postpartum Dementia

18 "The Old Gray Mare, She Ain't What She Used to Be"

Top 10 Greatest Concerns of Pregnant Women

Top 10 Reasons Why You'll Do This Again Someday

Index