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Booklists - We're Having a Baby

Making Plans

618.2 OGL
Before Your Pregnancy: A 90-Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception by Amy Ogle - 2002, 426p.

649.1 VER
Tomorrow's Baby: The Art and Science of Parenting from Conception through Infancy by Thomas R. Verny - 2002, 336p.

Conception

616.692 BRU
Making a Baby: Everything You Need to Know to Get Pregnant by Debra Fulghum Bruce - 2000, 379p.

616.692 CAT
The Fertility Plan: A Holistic Program for Conceiving a Healthy Baby by Helen Caton - 2000, 143

616.692 DOH
The Fertility Handbook: A Guide to Getting Pregnant by C. Maude Doherty - 2002, 160p.

618.178 LAU
Getting Pregnant: What You Need to Know Right Now by Niels H. Lauersen - 2000, 573p.

618.178 WIL
The Fastest Way to Get Pregnant Naturally: The Latest Information on Conceiving a Healthy Baby on Your Timetable by Christopher D. Williams - 2001, 300p.

618.2 TSI
From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds by Alexander Tsiaras - 2002, 283p.
Color photographs and computer imaging provide a portrait of the growth of a baby from conception to birth, tracing the development of individual body parts and systems.

Pregnancy

General Guides

618.2 MAC
Happy, Healthy Pregnancy: A Week-by-Week Guide to You and Your Growing Baby, with Expert Advice on Every Stage from Conception to Birth and Post-Natal Care by Alison MacKonochie - 2003, 96p.

618.2 MAR
The Pregnant Couple's Guide to Sex, Romance, and Intimacy by Sandra Margot - 2002, 212p.

618.24 FOR
The Everything Pregnancy Book: What Every Woman Needs to Know—Month-by-Month—to Ensure a Worry-Free Pregnancy by Paula Ford-Martin - 2003, 353p.

618.24 MUR
What to Expect When You're Expecting by Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff - 2002, 597p.

618.24 PEC
Pregnant Woman's Pill Book by Theodore Peck - 2003, 159p.

618.24 PET
What Your Unborn Baby Wants You to Know: A Complete Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy by Boris M. Petrikovsky 2001, 296p.

618.24 PRE
The Pregnancy Bible: Your Complete Guide to Pregnancy and Early Parenthood - 2003, 392p.

618.24 REI
How to Make a Pregnant Woman Happy: Solving Pregnancy's Most Common Problems—Quickly & Effectively by Uzzi Reiss - 2002, 215p.

618.24 WES
Pregnancy the Natural Way by Zita West - 2001, 160p.

Nutrition

618.24 DAD
Eat Right 4 Your Baby: The Individualized Guide to Fertility and Maximum Health during Pregnancy, Nursing, and Your Baby's First Year by Peter J. D'Adamo - 2003, 429p.
Uses blood type as a basis for determining an eating plan for conception and pregnancy.

618.24 ROB
Your Vegetarian Pregnancy: A Month-by-Month Guide to Health and Nutrition by Holly Roberts - 2003, 378p.

618.24 SHU
Every Woman's Guide to Eating during Pregnancy by Martha Rose Shulman - 2002, 420p.

618.24 SOM
Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy: The Complete Guide to Eating Before, During, and After Your Pregnancy by Elizabeth Somer - 2002, 359p.

Fitness

613.7 HAL
Prenatal Yoga for Conception, Pregnancy and Birth by Doriel Hall - 2002, 96p.

618.24 AUS
Denise Austin's Ultimate Pregnancy Book: How to Stay Fit and Healthy through the Nine Months, and Bounce Back after Baby by Denise Austin - 1999, 236p.
Full of instructive color photographs of yoga exercises appropriate for each trimester and preparation for labor.

618.24 KIN
Pilates for Pregnancy by Michael King - 2002, 96p.

618.24 NOB
Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year: A Guide to Health and Comfort Before and After Your Baby Is Born by Elizabeth Noble - 2003, 286p.

618.24 TEA
Step-by-Step Yoga for Pregnancy by Wendy Teasdill - 2000, 143p.

DVD 618.24 LEI
Video 618.24 LEI
Leisa Hart's Fit Mama Prenatal Workout - 2003, 60 minutes
Exercises to stay healthy and prepare for childbirth. Suggests different exercises for each trimester.

Special Weight Concerns

618.2 BER
Carrying a Little Extra: A Guide to Healthy Pregnancy for the Plus-Size Woman by Paula Bernstein - 2003, 197p.

618.24 BEH
The Pregnancy Diet: A Healthy Weight Control Program for Pregnant Women by Eileen Behan - 1999, 194p.

For Dads-in-Waiting

618.2 SKI
Do I Look Like a Daddy to You?: A Survival Guide for First-Time Fathers by Quinton Skinner - 2001, 216p.

618.24 CUR
Your Pregnancy for the Father-to-Be: Everything Dads Need to Know about Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Getting Ready for a New Baby by Glade B. Curtis - 2003, 288p.

618.24 HEI
Fathering: Right from the Start: Straight Talk about Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond by Jack Heinowitz - 2001, 163p.

649.1 BRO
The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips, and Advice for Dads-to-Be by Armin A. Brot - 2001, 271p.

The Big Day: Labor and Birth

618.4 BYR
Birthing: Choices You Have to Create the Best Birth Experience for You and Your Baby by Irene Byrne - 2003, 222p.
Comprehensive coverage of the options available to you, with help on choosing birth professionals, birth techniques, birth environment, location and more.

618.4 DAT
Childbirth and Pain Relief: An Anesthesiologist Explains Your Options by Sanjay Datta - 2001, 91p.

618.4 MOO
Cesarean Section: Understanding and Celebrating Your Baby's Birth by Michele Moore - 2003, 149p.

618.45 CON
Hypnosis for a Joyful Pregnancy and Pain-Free Labor and Delivery by Winifred Conkling - 2002, 170p.

618.45 GAS
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth: Discover the Proven Wisdom That Has Guided Thousands of Women through Childbirth with More Confidence, Less Pain, and Little or No Medical Intervention—Whether in a Hospital, Birthing Center, or the Comfort of a Home by Ina May Gaskin - 2003, 348p.

618.45 GUR
The Doula Advantage: Your Complete Guide to Having an Empowered and Positive Birth with the Help of a Professional Childbirth Assistant by Rachel Gurevich - 2003, 272p.
While mom and dad are busy with labor and delivery, a doula can be the mom's advocate with medical staff.

618.45 KIT
Birth Your Way by Sheila Kitzinger - 2002, 208p.

618.45 WES
Labor Pain: A Natural Approach to Easing Delivery by Nicky Wesson - 2000, 154p.

Video 618.4 CHO
Choices in Childbirth. Volume I, Epidural Anesthesia - 2000, 20 minutes

Video 618.4 CHO
Choices in Childbirth. Volume II, Induction & Augmentation - 2000, 17 minutes

Video 618.4 TRI
Tried & True: A Collection of Labor Techniques - 2000, 32 minutes

Video 618.45 GEN
Gentle Birth Choices - 2000, 46 minutes

Post Pregnancy

618.6 BRO
The Post-Pregnancy Handbook: The Only Book That Tells What the First Year after Childbirth Is Really All About, Physically, Emotionally, Sexually by Sylvia Brown - 2002, 334p.

618.6 CAS
Win the Fat War for Moms: 113 Real-Life Secrets to Losing Postpregnancy Pounds by Catherine Cassidy - 2001, 280p.

618.6 CUR
Bouncing Back after Your Pregnancy: What You Need to Know about Recovering from Labor and Delivery and Caring for Your New Family by Glade B. Curtis - 2002, 192p.

618.6 WAT
Outsmarting the Female Fat Cell—after Pregnancy: Every Woman's Guide to Shaping Up, Slimming Down, and Staying Sane after the Baby by Debra Waterhouse - 2002, 242p.

618.76 ROS
Conquering Postpartum Depression: A Proven Plan for Recovery by Ronald Rosenberg - 2003, 188p.

Mothers Share Their Stories

618.2 CAN
Pregnancy Stories: Real Women Share the Joys, Fears, Thrills, and Anxieties of Pregnancy from Conception to Birth by Cecelia A. Cancellaro - 2001, 260p.

618.24 BLE
I'll Never Have Sex with You Again: Tales from the Delivery Room by Larry Bleidner - 2002, 201p.

618.24 MAT
Navel Gazing: The Days and Nights of a Mother in the Making by Jennifer Matesa - 2001, 254p.

618.4 GRE
Real Birth: Women Share Their Stories by Robin Greene - 2000, 227p.

618.76 MAU
The Darkest Days of My Life: Stories of Postpartum Depression by Natasha S. Mauthner - 2002, 260p.

Prepared by Martha M. Krause, January 2004