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Overview

What to Expect...The First Step

Expecting to Expect? Plan Ahead.

Everything you need to know before you're expecting to help you prepare for the healthiest possible pregnancy and the healthiest possible baby. Filled with practical tips, empathetic advice, and savvy strategies all designed to help you get that baby of your dreams on board faster. How to get your bodies into tip-top baby-making shape. Which foods feed fertility. Which lifestyle habits to quit and which to cultivate. How to have sex for conception success (from timing to positions to logistics). And when to seek fertility help. There's even a fertility planner to help you keep track of your conception adventure.

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Pregnancy guru Murkoff (What to Expect When You're Expecting) explains that a healthy pregnancy actually begins long before sperm and egg meet. In fact, she suggests that couples add at least three months to the requisite nine in order to prepare both their bodies for the best outcome. Backed by research and expert advice, Murkoff and Mazel present a preconception program that includes tips on what to eat (and not eat), how to maintain a healthy weight and advice about preconception medical care, such as having a physical and dental checkup. The text points out that dads are vitally important to pre-pregnancy health, with warnings that heavy drinking and smoking can damage or reduce sperm, as can certain sports such as spinning, cycling or heavy workouts. (Shaded boxes throughout the text address the ways in which men can contribute to baby-to-be's successful arrival.) The text also covers fertility issues, clearly explaining "the biology of baby making" and outlining the options available to couples who are facing conception problems. Readers who like to think ahead will also benefit from a detailed fertility planner, which includes a fertility chart to track ovulation and space to record various pre-baby appointments and information. Couples who are trying to conceive will find plenty of useful ideas to consider and implement in the months preceding their baby's debut. (May)

Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780761152767
  • Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 5/15/2009
  • Pages: 275
  • Sales rank: 35,028
  • Series: What to Expect Series
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

It all started with a baby…and a book. Heidi Murkoff conceived the idea for What to Expect When You're Expecting during her first pregnancy, when she couldn’t find answers to her questions or reassurance for her worries in the books she’d turned to for much-needed advice. Determined to write a guide that would help other expectant parents sleep better at night, Heidi delivered the proposal for What to Expect When You’re Expecting just hours before delivering her daughter, Emma.

Dubbed the “pregnancy bible”, the iconic New York Times bestseller is now in its all-new fourth edition, with over 17 million copies in print, and according to USA Today, is read by 93 percent of women who read a pregnancy book. Other titles in the series include Eating Well When You’re Expecting, What to Expect the First Year, What to Expect Before You’re Expecting (a complete preconception plan), and the newest member of the What to Expect family: What to Expect the Second Year, the must-have guide for parents of toddlers. The What to Expect books have sold more than 34 million copies in the US alone, and are published in over 30 languages.

In 2005, Heidi expanded the What to Expect (WTE) brand online with WhatToExpect.com – the interactive, state-of-the-internet companion to the WTE books, and home to a vibrant, vast, yet close-knit community of 3 million parents. In 2009, WTE went mobile with the WTE Pregnancy Tracker (the most popular pregnancy app in the world), the WTE Fertility Tracker, the WTE Baby Name Finder, and the WTE First Year Tracker.

Heidi’s passionate commitment to moms and babies led to the creation of the What to Expect Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping underserved families expect healthy pregnancies, safe deliveries, and healthy, happy babies. With a beautiful, culturally appropriate low-literacy pregnancy guide (provided at no cost) and comprehensive prenatal health literacy support, the WTE Foundation’s groundbreaking Baby Basics program -- available in English, Spanish, and Chinese -- has helped over 500,000 expectant moms-to-be in need and their babies.

Heidi has appeared on hundreds of television and radio shows, including the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, the CBS Early Show, Oprah, BBC Breakfast, and Good Morning Australia. She connects daily with her WTE family online at WhatToExpect.com, as well as on Twitter and Facebook.

Heidi and her husband, Erik, have two children and live in Southern California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments iv

Foreword Charles J. Lockwood vi

Introduction: What Can You Expect Before You're Expecting viii

Part 1 Getting Ready to Make a Baby

Chapter 1 Prepping Before You're Expecting 2

Chapter 2 Weighing In Before You're Expecting 36

Chapter 3 Eating Well Before You're Expecting 49

Part 2 Making a Baby

Chapter 4 The Biology of Baby Making 72

Chapter 5 Predicting Ovulation 84

Chapter 6 Figuring Out Your Fertility 94

Chapter 7 Getting Busy Making a Baby 100

Chapter 8 Are You Pregnant? 124

Part 3 Bumps on the Road to Baby

Chapter 9 Challenges to Fertility 138

Chapter 10 When You Need a Little Help 151

Chapter 11 Beginning Again After a Loss 178

Part 4 Keeping Track

Chapter 12 Your Fertility Planner 194

TTC Glossary 254

Your TTC Journal 256

Index 263

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  • Posted January 21, 2011

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    Got me pregnant! =)

    I read this book, took its advice and the next time my spouse and I tried to conceive, a baby appeared! I am currently 22 weeks pregnant with my first child, a baby girl. They do give you really good advice and they make it really easy to pinpoint ovulation but the advice was kind of the sme thing over and over again. Recommended but borrow it, dont waste money on something that gives you the same advice over and over again without going on to something new.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted July 13, 2009

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    Good Prep Book for Beginners

    I picked this book over "What to Expect When You're Expecting" because I thought it would more specifically target a person TTC. There isn't much in this book that can't be found in the "When You're Expecting" version, so that's why I rated it lower in some areas. I would skip this selection and just go for "When You're Expecting" if given the choice again for myself or for others that have some ideas of what preconception planning brings. This book is a good choice for someone who really feels lost and doesn't know where to start, but unless that is you just skip it.

    3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 28, 2010

    Not only for soon to be moms but dads too!

    Overall, this is a great book for anyone who is looking to plan on TTC or is TTC. This book explains all the little things that health class in high school didn't tell you and beyond. I stongly recommend this book for anyone who may be having fertitlity issues. Lots of charts and such to keep you on track. I lost three lbs just by reading chapter 2 about healthy weights for TTC.
    Easy read for soon to be mom and dad!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 23, 2010

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    Very Informative for a New Mother to Be

    This is the first pregnancy book that I purchased when my husband and I decided to start trying for baby. I wanted a book that could guide me past the basic information that everyone learns in sex education to more detailed information. I found the book to be quite informative about the direction that I needed to move in first before becoming pregnant. The book is written in question and answer format which I did not like. My questions about some topics were answered and others were not. This is a perfect way to create your list of questions for you doctor.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 27, 2011

    Great book

    This is like one of the best things i have read!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 25, 2010

    A very basic guide of the ins and outs of trying to concieve.

    I purchased this book during talks with my wife about trying to concieve. I was looking for something that could inform her on what to do and what not to do while enlightening me somewhat on the process all-together. I am very pleased with the information contained in the book, as well as the method in which it is organized. I would definately reccomend this book to anyone wishing to concieve in the future.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 28, 2009

    very helpcul

    My husband and I purchased this book in May. I thought this book was very helpful and organized. The charts in the back were also very helpful. We had thisbook for almost 3 months now, and we jus found out July 24th that we are Pregnant!! we're about 5 weeks along now and are going to the bookstore to purchase "What to Expect while you're Expecting"!!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 30, 2012

    Very Insightful

    This book was very insightful on what you should and shouldn't do before & during your trying to conceive (ttc) journey. I learned a lot about my body that i did not know before & i feel very educated in the baby making process after completing this book! I recommend this if you and your loved one are thinking about TTC or are currently!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 14, 2011

    Do not waste your money

    If you really want this book, ask your doctor or a friend that has children. This book only pertains to "typical" pregnancies, which is a small percentage. Everyone us different, so dont rely on a book to tell you how you're going to feel and what you're going to go through. I suggest giving it to the daddys so they stop asking "what's wrong?".

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 20, 2011

    Highly Recommend

    I found this book to be very interesting and informative. It's great for anyone that is entertaining the idea of getting pregnant.

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  • Posted April 12, 2010

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    Ok, but a lot of fluff

    This book could easily be 50 pages and be just as effective. While I think it's worth a quick read through, I found some of it to be redundant and some of it to be downright irritating. As a grown woman trying to conceive a baby, I would rather my period not be referred to as "Aunt Flo," and sex called the "baby dance." There is a huge amount of sappy word play that makes the book seem a lot longer than it really is.

    That said... it definitely has some useful information! I love the fertility planner in the back that helps you keep track of predict ovulation.

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  • Posted July 20, 2009

    Overall, highly recommended!I really enjoyed this book.

    The way the book is organized makes it a quick and inforamtive read. My husband and I are actively trying to concieve so the helpful hints were great. Thsi think it is geared towards women who are just thinking about getting pregnant and also those who have bene trying for a while. Although a lot of the book I found was common sense, that may not be the case for everyone. I am looking forward to reading 'Wha To Expect When You Are Expecting', when I am expecting. Overall, I really enjoyed this book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 11, 2009

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    Good Read!

    Informative & helpful although a lot of the subjects covered seemed to be things most people would already have knowledge of.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 7, 2009

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    Great info.

    This is the one to read before you get pregnant. It has great information in it that really helps to understand what to do in order toi ensure conception. I really liked it.

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