Planning A Baby?

Jan 10, 2025 8:03 AM

Author:Sarah Brewer

Planning A Baby?

Planning a Baby? is all about giving your baby the best possible start in life. By taking maximum care of your health in the six important months before your new child is even conceived, you can optimise the chances of having a healthy baby. The first few weeks of gestation are critical. Research has shown that undernourishment during this time - often before the mother is even aware she is pregnant - can affect the baby a long way into the future. It is linked with the subsequent development of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes in middle age.

In this completely updated and revised edition, Dr Sarah Brewer provides the latest groundbreaking research and gives advice on:

-Contraceptive advances

-Lifestyle and factors that affect early pregnancy

-Conception itself - the myths and the facts

-Which vitamins and minerals are needed, including the use of folic acid

-Advice for vegetarians

-Sperm health

-An overview of the causes of miscarriage

This book aims to give potential parents all the tools they require before embarking on one of life's greatest adventures - conception, pregnancy and the birth of a healthy baby.

Reviews

A fascinating insight into Helen's world of highbrow sex parties, international globetrotting and high-powered, successful men (Book of the Week)

—— Cosmopolitan

[Helen's] juicy adventures will keep you hooked!

—— Closer

Searingly honest . . . a fast-paced trip into a world most of us will never get to access

—— News of the World

An enlightening, exceptionally well-written confessional that makes us question our preconceptions about relationships

—— Manchester Evening Standard

Gasp-making, jaw-dropping and eloquently astounding

—— Irish Indepedent

Enright is such an original and witty writer. Her tone is utterly unsentimental and kept reducing me to tears

—— Zoe Heller

Anne Enright is an eloquent writer...dazzlingly funny

—— Penelope Lively

Making Babies is not just a good book, it's a good thing. It induces hope. It creates an appetite for life. It is also a very effective contraceptive

—— Ian Sansom

A hopelessly vivid maker of sentence, of the sort you can't help reading aloud to whoever happens to be nearby... Ms. Enright's commentary on gender politics and babies, like a swimming pool illuminated by underwater lights, also casts an entrancingly strange glow

—— Dwight Garner , New York Times

Joyous!... very funny. With originality and truth, she perfectly nails the madness and simplicity of motherhood

—— i

a rich account...brilliant vignettes

—— Camilla Long , Sunday Times

This piercing memoir paints in vivid colours Julia Blackburn's nightmarish childhood

—— Alison Flood , The Telegraph

Blackburn tells us about these things in a compelling authorial voice which is by turns numb and incredibly sensitive

—— William Leith , Evening Standard

Brutally honest book ...deeply moving testament to the love that can somehow survive

—— Aimee Shalan , Guardian

An extraordinary family memoir... A bohemian classic

—— Week

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