Need to Know Fertility, Conception and Pregnancy

This one-stop practical guide will show you how to maximise your chances of having a baby and prepare week-by-week during your pregnancy for a relaxed and confident birth. Two reliable and accessible titles, complete with colour photos and expert advice throughout, combined into one ebook.

Need to Know Fertility and Conception answers all the questions you want to know the answers to, it also explains when you're most fertile and how often to have sex; what factors can prevent or reduce fertilization and conception; how to enhance your fertility; how to get the most out of your GP; how to overcome stress and other emotional blocks to pregnancy; the different fertility treatments and contains sources of information, suggestions for further reading, support groups and websites.

Need to Know Pregnancy gives a complete overview of baby development during pregnancy through to birth. Its combination of conventional mainstream and complementary medical info reflects the way most pregnant women approach their care today. There’s also plenty of information for the father-to-be. Contents includes: week by week overview; what to expect at appointments; eating well; exercising and relaxing; labour and birth; A-Z of common problems.

Reviews

‘An indispensable bible for pregnancy and childbirth’ – Pregnancy, Baby & You on Need To Know Pregnancy

‘A practical guide broken up into accessible sections… Indispensable’ – Junior Pregnancy and Baby on Need To Know Pregnancy

About the author

Harriet Sharkey has written on pregnancy issues for numerous magazines including Pregnancy and Baby, Babygro, Prima Magazine, and the Independent on Sunday. She was co-author (with Yehudi Gordon) of Birth and Beyond (Ebury, 2002), and The Journey into Parenthood.

Ian Greer is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow, after a long career in practice as a House Officer and Registrar at the Royal Maternity Hospital and Royal Infirmary, Glasgow. He is, perhaps, best known for his pregnancy and childcare self-help website, 'mom-e.com'.