Ask a Midwife: All Your Pregnancy and Birth Questions Answered with Wisdom, Insight and Expetise

Ask a Midwife: All Your Pregnancy and Birth Questions Answered with Wisdom, Insight and Expetise

By Catharine Parker-Littler

    Publisher:   DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

    Number Of Pages:   320

    Publication Date:   2008-01

    ISBN-10 / ASIN:   1405331100

    ISBN-13 / EAN:   9781405331104 

Product Description:

All your pregnancy and birth questions answered by experienced midwives. What's best to eat during pregnancy? How many minutes apart should my contractions be? What's a great tip for a good night's sleep? When it comes to dispensing care, advice and friendly reassurance during pregnancy and labour, midwives are the health professionals mothers want to turn to. You can find 1,000 real-life questions to midwives, answered with up-to-date information you can trust. It covers everything you need to know from conception to the first weeks of life with a new baby. It draws on the experience of long-term midwife Catherine Parker-Littler. "Ask A Midwife" is like having your own a midwife on call, 24 hours a day.

Summary: Great reference book!

Rating: 5

I borrowed this book from the library and referred to it several times during the first months of my pregnancy. Like other books from this publisher, the information is well-organized and concise with lots of graphs and photos. It's by no means encyclopedic though; for more in-depth info you may want to supplement this book with the Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy, or a similar tome.

Summary: very pleased

Rating: 5

i loved the book. It is up to date and very easy to read, with pictures. The book is a must for any mother to be. Thank you so much

Summary: Great resource, very thorough and detailed...

Rating: 5

With the excitement of expecting our first child I went in search of finding a good book to answer the many questions from pregnancy to childbirth. I looked at several books, but this is the only one that had me sitting for hours reading every detail. I had to buy it!

The great thing about this book is its ease of use. The book is divided into 6 Sections, and within each Section are many Subsections:

1. Trying for a Baby

(Example of Subsection: We want to be parents. I've had a miscarriage. We're not getting pregnant. How will I know I'm pregnant?)

2. Now You're Pregnancy

3. Your 40-Week Journey

4. Labor and Birth

5. New parents

6. A New Life

Within each Subsection the authors use Question and Answer style to discuss things such as: preeclampsia, prenatal visits, exercise, baby development, how your body changes, how / when to tell people your pregnant, working while pregnant, breastfeeding, labor, emotions of childbirth and after, neonatal intensive care, safe sleeping positions, pain relief for delivery, homebirths and hospital births, and so much more. And to keep things diversified there's also questions and answers for your partner, and a section on your partners involvement throughout pregnancy and during delivery. Along the way are also Myths and Misconceptions.

The pages are printed on nice thick glossy paper so the many color pictures and drawings look crisp and clear. There is also a Sections tab running along the top of the pages; the one you're in stays colored so you know what Section you are in.

We chose to have a midwife deliver our baby so this book suits us fine. A midwife wrote the book, and many other midwives made contributions. I'm certain if there's a question you have it's bound to be answered here.