What To Read When You Are Expecting

One of the most popular books about pregnancy and health is Expect the Best: Your Guide to Eating Before, During, and After Pregnancy, written by Elizabeth M. Ward in addition with the American Dietetic Association. This book begins by asking you if you are even thinking about having a baby, and starts at the very beginning, going back to how to eat even before conception occurs. It details a plan for what you and your partner should eat and what kinds of nutritional lifestyles will best help maximize your chances for getting pregnant in both you and your husband.

Then, it offers you suggestions about what to eat if you are hoping to have a child. If you are pregnant, there will be trimester by trimester advice about the various things to eat as well as different suggested exercise plans that can really benefit you and the baby during the entire pregnancy. You will be able to have different tips and chapters on how to handle a variety of things that occur during pregnancy, such as morning sickness as well as gestational diabetes and things that require you to change your diet and take in different kinds of foods.

Also, you will be given some different diets that will help you after the baby is born, tips to help you lose weight safely after pregnancy as well as tips and diet suggestions for nursing mothers. Finally, the book includes fifty healthy recipes for you and your entire family that take all that the book is saying into consideration allowing you to apply it to your life.

Another great book is ADD/ADHD Drug Free: Natural Alternatives and Practical Exercises to Help Your Child Focus written by Frank Jacobelli and Lynn A. Watson. This book focuses on children who suffer from things like ADD and ADHD, disorders which often prompt frazzled parents to use drugs to help sedate their children and try to help control and manage the behavior. However, this book decrees that medication only helps ease some symptoms and is, at best, a temporary solution to any problem. So, the best thing to do, the book says, is focus on some of the natural ways that parents and teachers can use when trying to deal with children without using medicinal means.

Another book that is popular is Active Birth: A New Approach to giving Birth Naturally written by Janet Balaskas. Basically, this book contains a lot of pertinent information related to childbirth and the postnatal period so that you can really get the facts that will best help you as you prepare to give birth. For any woman about to have a baby, this book is an accessible read that gives a well written and informative expression of what to expect and what precautions to take for a safe pregnancy.

James F Clapp III wrote Exercising Through Your Pregnancy, a book that takes the information gathered from case studies of women who exercised before and during and after their pregnancies and allows you to see what kind of effect that physical fitness and health can have on pregnancy and childbirth as a while. Mothers as well as health professionals can really benefit from this book and the clear cut and objective pregnancy care exercises that will really be beneficial during pregnancy.