Forgetfulness and clumsiness
Until she was pregnant, Joanne never would have believed that misplacing keys, bumping into furniture, and dropping things could be real side effects of pregnancy. We don't know of any medical explanation for these effects, but some women do feel they're more scatterbrained and clumsy. If it happens to you, don't worry. You're not losing your mind. Look at it this way Now you have an excuse for having forgotten your best friend's birthday. And rest assured you'll go back to being your...
Understanding your babys Weight gain
Although your weight gain may follow a path all its own, your baby's own bulking-up pattern is likely to progress slowly at first, and then pick up at about 32 weeks, only to slow again in the last weeks before birth. At 14 to 15 weeks, for example, the baby puts on weight at about 0.18 ounce 5 grams per day, and at 32 to 34 weeks, 1.06 to 1.23 ounces 30 to 35 grams per day that's about half a pound or 0.23 kilograms each week . After 36 weeks, the fetal growth rate slows to about a quarter of...
Anytimeofday sickness
For some women, the nausea that can strike during the first trimester is worse in the mornings, maybe because the stomach is empty at that time of day. But ask anyone who's had morning sickness, and she'll tell you It can hit any time it wants. It often starts during the fifth or sixth week that is, three to four weeks after you miss your period we describe how doctors calculate the timing of pregnancy in Chapter 2 and goes away, or at least becomes much less severe, by the end of the 11th or...
Quitting birth control
How soon can you get pregnant after you stop using birth control It depends on what kind of birth control you use. The barrier methods such as condoms, diaphragms, and spermicides work only as long as you use them as soon as you stop, you're fertile. Hormone-based medicines including the Pill, Depo-Provera, NuvaRing, and the birth control patch for example, Ortho-Evra take longer to get out of your system. You may ovulate very shortly after stopping the Pill weeks or days, even . Usually,...
Authors Acknowledgments
Writing this book was truly a labor of love. We would like to thank everyone who played a part in the birth of this book, and specifically the following Lindsay Lefevere, Chad Sievers, Christy Pingleton, Tami Booth, Jennifer Ehrlich, Christy Beck, Elizabeth Kuball, Paula Lowell, Traci Cumbay, Kathy Cox, and the other folks at Wiley Publishing, Inc., who conceived this idea and walked us through the whole process. Sophia Seidner, Carolyn Krupp, and the folks at International Management Group for...