Before Your Pregnancy: A 90 Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception 
asked by bulldogs on November 8, 2006 1:40 PM
Before Your Pregnancy is a breakthrough book for prospective parents—a completely detailed resource that prepares mothers and fathers-to-be to conceive the healthiest baby possible, to make pregnancy and delivery easier, and to foster the mental and physical well-being of their infant child. Created by two experienced health-care professionals, this unique handbook not only discusses virtually every aspect of preconception that affects a healthy baby, it tells you how to handle each one. The authors spell out what each parent needs to do, starting at least ninety days before conception (the minimum time needed for sperm to mature). The hundreds of topics covered—many for the first time in any book—include
• Men’s Health: Building healthy sperm before conception (nutrition, fitness, and medical influences)
• Women’s Health: Gynecologic well-being, preexisting medical conditions, genetic legacy, boosting fertility, becoming a mother at an older age
• Becoming an Informed Patient: Choosing a doctor, what a complete preconception exam includes, important questions and how to ask them, insurance coverage
• Nutrition: Improving the health of future generations, preconception meal makeovers, ethnic Food Guide Pyramids, avoiding food-borne illnesses, vitamin and mineral facts, pre-pregnancy body weight
• Fitness: Preconception fitness evaluation and exercise prescription, safety tips and motivational anecdotes, preconception strength and flexibility workout
• Medications/Herbs: Baby-friendly ones and ones to avoid
• Personal Readiness: Emotional, financial, and environmental issues
• Romancing the Egg: Tips for success when ready to “start trying”
Plus: Separate questionnaires for the prospective parents to fill out in preparation for their preconception medical visit.
This warm, intelligent, and completely informed reference gives aspiring parents exactly the knowledge and support they need to insure the best of everything for their child-to-be.
• Men’s Health: Building healthy sperm before conception (nutrition, fitness, and medical influences)
• Women’s Health: Gynecologic well-being, preexisting medical conditions, genetic legacy, boosting fertility, becoming a mother at an older age
• Becoming an Informed Patient: Choosing a doctor, what a complete preconception exam includes, important questions and how to ask them, insurance coverage
• Nutrition: Improving the health of future generations, preconception meal makeovers, ethnic Food Guide Pyramids, avoiding food-borne illnesses, vitamin and mineral facts, pre-pregnancy body weight
• Fitness: Preconception fitness evaluation and exercise prescription, safety tips and motivational anecdotes, preconception strength and flexibility workout
• Medications/Herbs: Baby-friendly ones and ones to avoid
• Personal Readiness: Emotional, financial, and environmental issues
• Romancing the Egg: Tips for success when ready to “start trying”
Plus: Separate questionnaires for the prospective parents to fill out in preparation for their preconception medical visit.
This warm, intelligent, and completely informed reference gives aspiring parents exactly the knowledge and support they need to insure the best of everything for their child-to-be.
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I found this book to be a good read at first. As I read more, I came upon the food pyramid and was referred to a later chapter. Disappointingly, I found separate food pyramids for Asian-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and African-Americans. I was shocked to read some of the content of the food pyramids and found it to be extremely offensive and prejudice. Lumping an entire race into a different "food consumption" category is unbelievable and very untruthful. For this reason alone, I stopped reading the book halfway through. The book has a copyright date of 2002, which makes the food separate food pyramids even more appalling.
I have found more helpful information for soon to be pregnant women on Internet searches, especially in terms of nutrition and fitness. I expected much more from this book in relation to preparing emotionally and actually evaluating if you are really ready to embark on the new journey we call "motherhood."
I have found more helpful information for soon to be pregnant women on Internet searches, especially in terms of nutrition and fitness. I expected much more from this book in relation to preparing emotionally and actually evaluating if you are really ready to embark on the new journey we call "motherhood."
reviewed by steelers on November 15, 2006 1:06 PM
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This book isn't for people who are trying to conceive. For those who are preparing to do it in the future it offers good information on diet and environmental hazards. Use it for what it is and it is useful. If you are trying to conceive this book isn't for you.
reviewed by steelers on November 21, 2006 9:48 AM
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This book was useless. It is a great idea to have a book about conception however this book fails to live up to the lofty task. I think my biggest complaint with the book is the fact that the book is dull and really doesn't go into terffic detail about how life changes after a baby. Or practical step to take before getting pregnant. Instead it focuses to much on diet not enough on the huge emtional changes.
reviewed by geo on November 27, 2006 1:07 AM