Next Nine Months: A Guide to Your Body After Giving Birth

by Paula M. Siegel

A caring, comforting guide devoted to your body after pregnancy, this book takes you from delivery through the first year, providing detailed, essential info. on: what physical sensations to expect... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0788198092
• ISBN13: 9780788198090
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Penguin Books, USA
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

the most important gift a new mother could receive

Every new mother should receive a copy of this book before they leave the hospital with strict instructions not to open it for seven days. Wait one week and experience all the strange things your unique body will begin to do after birth, and just when you think you are loosing your mind, open this book. Read it and learn that you are NORMAL and what your body and mind are doing are normal reactions to the physically and mentally traumatic experience of preganancy and birth. This book also explains what is NOT normal, and when you need to call your doctor - equally valuable information to have.This book was a godsend to me - I had a dozen post c-section complications that nobody ever warned me about, but the author knew all about them. She helped me understand what was happening, how to cope with it, and why it was happening. I now give a copy of this to my first-time mom friends, and every one I have shared this book with has found huge benefit in reading it. It's a crime it has been allowed to go out of print.

bumpy, lumpy and somewhat grumpy.

Nothing alarming, nothing condescending... just a matter-of-fact description and explanation of the changing woman's body. Reading this book in the months following Lucy's birth helped ease my worries about the bizzare things going on with my body. Having read enough about pregnancy and birth that there really were no suprises, my own body following the birth seemed quite an alien being.