Your Perfectly Pampered Pregnancy: An Expectant Mom's Guide to Health, Beauty, Lifestyle, and Self Care for 9 Months and Beyond »

Colette Bouchez is an award winning medical journalist with more than twenty years experience. She is the former medical writer for the New York Daily News , and the top selling author of The V Zone and co-author of Getting Pregnant. Currently a daily medical correspondent for HealthDay News Service/The New York Times Syndicate,  and WebMD, her popular consumer health articles appear daily online, as well as in newspapers nationwide and in Europe and Japan. She is a regular contributor to USAToday.com, ABCNews.com, MSNBC.com and more than two dozen radio and television news stations nationwide. She lives in New York City.

The moment a pregnancy is announced, all eyes are on baby. But what about Mom? Not only is her body changing, everything about her lifestyle is turning upside down.

A revolutionary new kind of self-help guide, Your Perfectly Pampered Pregnancy puts Mom at center stage, with hundreds of tips on how to have the healthiest, most vibrant pregnancy possible.

Culling advice from top medical, beauty, and style sources worldwide , award-winning health reporter Colette Bouchez delivers sound medical advice as well as beauty and lifestyle tips to keep Mom happy and healthy, ensuring baby will be healthier and happier as well.

Highlights include:

*The five most common pregnancy complaints—and how to beat them
*The beauty, hair, and skin care products that are safe to use—and what to avoid
*How to choose maternity clothes without losing your sense of style
*Natural and relaxing ways to beat stress, overcome sleep problems, and handle pregnancy fears
*How to treat painful—and often embarrassing—pregnancy problems naturally and easily, and how to know when it’s time to seek a doctor’s help
*Advice on how to blend your career obligations with impending motherhood—and look and feel great while doing it!
*How to make pregnant sex the best sex of your life

Written in the caring, one-on-one tone of a best friend, Your Perfectly Pampered Pregnancy is a unique (and long overdue) addition to the booming baby category.

Publishers Weekly

With this volume, Bouchez (Getting Pregnant) aims to fill one of the few holes left in the ever-expanding pregnancy book category by giving instructions for pampering a woman heavy with child. She points out that as mothers "concentrate on doing everything for our baby, too often, it seems, we can begin to lost sight of ourselves." But a good way to have a happy, healthy pregnancy is to "be kind to yourself, stay in touch with who you are, and treat yourself with the loving care and respect that you deserve." To that end, Bouchez guides readers through treating the common complaints of pregnancy, maintaining a sense of style and being a "hot mamma," enjoying sex and more. Friendly "real life" and "mother knows best" sidebars offer down-to-earth advice; quotations from experts (like the editors of Natural Health and Good Housekeeping) lend an air of authority. This is, however, more than just a pampering book-it gives a reassuring sense of what a woman can expect from pregnancy and advice for taking wonderful care of herself through it all.