Dr. Ruth's Pregnancy Guide for Couples: Love, Sex and Medical Facts

by Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, M.D. Grunebaum

Overview

This book offers helpful tips, case studies, and question and answer features about sexual activity, getting pregnant, being pregnant, delivering a baby, and keeping sex alive before, during, and after pregnancy. It focuses on maintaining a healthy relationship and sex life during pregnancy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415919722
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/23/1999
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, world-renowned psychosexual therapist, is the author of fifteen books, including Grandparenthood (Routledge 1998). She lives in New York City. Amos Grunebaum, M.D. is Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York and Assistant Professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Get Ready, Get Set, Before You Get Pregnant — INTRODUCTION — Thinking Ahead about Parenthood — Taking an Emotional Inventory — Ask Dr. Ruth — From Our Files — Preparing Your Body — Preconception Care — From Our Files — Preexisting Conditions — Inherited Diseases — Maternal Age — Sexually Transmitted Diseases — Other Infections — Chronic Medical Conditions — Rh Disease — Medications to Avoid — Prescription Medications — Over-the-Counter Medications — Substances to Avoid — Alcohol — Tobacco — Tip — Caffeine — Tip — Cocaine, Marijuana, and Other Illegal Drugs — You're Ready, You're Set — CHAPTER 2 Go! Making the Most Out of Making a Baby — Tip — Taking the Plunge-Putting Away Your — Contraceptives — Ask Dr. Ruth — Having Second Th oughts? — From Our Files — Experiencing Sex in a Ne w Way — D on't Worry, Be Happy — Tip — Ask Dr. Ruth — When Timing ls Everything: Determining — When You Ovulate — Tip — Your Menstrual Cycle — Your Cervical Mucus — Basal Body Temperature — Ovulation Detection Kits — It Takes Two — From Our Files — The Ejaculate — Producing Quality Sperm — The Youth Factor — Quantity as Well as Quality — The Final Step: Fertilizing the Egg — From Our Files — Getting Ready for the Big Day — Tip — The Best Positions for Conception — Missionary Position — From our Files — Rear-Entry Position — What to Avoid If You Want to Get Pregnant — Lubricational Foreplay — Oral Sex and Pregnancy — Fellatio — Cunnilingus — Pregnancy — Orgasms — Determining the Baby's Sex — A Short Lesson in Genetics — Helping Nature Choose the Sex — Female Orgasms — Male and Female Sperm — Positions and the Sex of the Baby — Sperm Filtration — What about Twins? — Superfecundation and Superfetation — Infertility and Treatment — When It's Ttme to See an Expert — Inducing Ovulation — Removing Tubal Obstructions — Advanced Techniques for Becoming Pregnant — Obtaining the Ejaculate and Sperm — The Next Ste

Editorial Reviews

"Coming from Dr. Ruth, this pregnancy adviser contains more about sex than many others, but with obstetrician-gynecologist Grunebaum as coauthor, it provides plenty of medical information, too. Sexual and medical information and advice are dispensed throughout, and clear line drawings illustrate the physiological stages of pregnancy as well as many recommended positions for sexual intercourse throughout pregnancy...Fine of its kind." -- Booklist

From the Publisher

A sex therapist and an obstetrician join their expertise to bring expectant couples medical information and advice on sex and intimacy throughout pregnancy and after. Starting before conception, chapters walk the couple through all stages of pregnancy, passing on frank advice about the rewards of maintaining physical and emotional intimacy during pregnancy. Includes Dr. Ruth's answers to commonly asked questions, and patient case studies. Emphasis is on the medical mainstream, with no mention of home birth. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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