What to Expect When You're Expecting: (Updated in 2024) - Paperback

What to Expect When You're Expecting answers the questions you would rather not ask out loud, from the first test through to the delivery room.

Is the fish safe? Can I keep up the spin class? Where is the glow everybody promised? It takes the small anxious questions as seriously as the large ones.

What it keeps current

Prenatal screening, which medications are safe to take, and the range of birth options now genuinely on the table, from water birth to a gentle cesarean.

The lifestyle half

Eating and coffee, working out and working, travel, skin and beauty. The parts of an ordinary week that quietly become questions.

Who else is in here

A chapter for anyone expecting more than one baby, and a section written for the partner trying to work out what their job actually is.

From the publisher

Updated multiple times every year, America's pregnancy bible answers all your questions.

• When can I take an at-home a pregnancy test?
• How can I eat for two if I'm too queasy to eat for one?
• Can I keep up my spinning classes?
• Is fish safe to eat? And what's this I hear about soft cheese?
• Can I work until I deliver? What are my rights on the job?
• I'm blotchy and broken out--where's the glow?
• Should we do a gender reveal? What about a 4-D ultrasound?
• Will I know labor when I feel it?

Your pregnancy explained and your pregnant body demystified, head (what to do about those headaches) to feet (why they're so swollen), back (how to stop it from aching) to front (why you can't tell a baby by mom's bump). Filled with must-have information, practical advice, realistic insight, easy-to-use tips, and lots of reassurance, you'll also find the very latest on prenatal screenings, which medications are safe, and the most current birthing options--from water birth to gentle c-sections. Your pregnancy lifestyle gets equal attention, too: eating (including food trends) to coffee drinking, working out (and work) to sex, travel to beauty, skin care, and more. Have pregnancy symptoms? You will--and you'll find solutions for them all. Expecting multiples? There's a chapter for you. Expecting to become a dad? This book has you covered, too.