Pregnancy and Parenting Collection Box Set

By My Ebook Publishing House

Now, for the first time ever, and only for a limited time, you can get this value-priced, limited edition boxed set.
Pregnancy and Parenting Collection Box Set includes three bestselling books from My Ebook Publishing House:

Book #1
The Pregnancy and the Baby
This is the most comprehensive pregnancy manual on the market. From the latest obstetric procedures to nutrition, exercise and choices in childbirth, reassuring, practical advice on all aspects of your antenatal care will help you every step of the way.
„The Pregnancy and the Baby„ is essential reading for anyone expecting a baby. It takes parents through planning for a baby, pregnancy and birth. It also gives coverage of the first year of a baby's life and looks beyond to the toddler years, offering reassurance and practical advice.

Book #2
Ultimate Pregnancy Guide, by Sheila Leigh
Millions of us want to feel more prepared when we find out we're going to be a parent, and there's tons of advice out there to help. But who's got time to wade through it all to find out what works?
Ultimate Pregnancy Guide is compact, inspiring to read and fantastic value.
Women looking for authoritative, accurate information from a reputable source will appreciate this pregnancy book. More complete and up-to-date than any other pregnancy guide, this remarkable book is the "bible" for childbirth educators.
This comprehensive, authoritative book provides expectant couples with abundant, valuable information about pregnancy, labor, birth, the postpartum period, and newborn care.

Book #3
Parenting Your Child: How To Build The Character Your Child Needs To Succeed
Every parent wants their child to be happy and to do well when they grow up.
But what are the qualities they need to make a success of their lives?
How can you encourage kindness in your children? And resilience and honesty? And why is having a backbone important for the healthy development of your child?
From babies to teenagers, 'Parenting Your Child: How To Build The Character Your Child Needs To Succeed' shows parents the essential steps they need to take.
With numerous examples, this book offers helpful advice on positive reinforcement, habits, teaching children self-government, the importance of chores and personal worship, setting boundaries, and balancing work and play.

• Language: English
• Publisher: My Ebook Publishing House
• Release date: Sep 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310572319

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Book #1

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The Pregnancy and the Baby

Table of Contents

I. THE PREGNANCY

1. THE SYMPTOMS OF BIRTH: THE FIRST TEN SIGNS TELLING YOU COULD BE PREGNANT

2. THE OVULATION

2.1. What is the ovulation?

2.2. How does the ovulation process establish? When can I get pregnant?

2.3. How can I tell which is the ovulation period that I am fertile in?

3. THE BABY’S SEX

3.1. People talking

3.2. How can you find out if the baby is a boy or a girl?

3.3. Which other methods exist to find out if the baby is a boy or a girl?

3.4. Likes on the baby’s sex

3.5. Techniques to select the sex – How to select your baby’s sex?

3.6. Do you want to know if your baby is going to be a boy or a girl?

4. WHAT YOU SHOULD EAT DURING THE PREGNANCY?

4.1. Does a woman really need to eat for two?

4.2. How much energy does a woman need during the pregnancy?

4.3. What kind of food should a pregnant woman eat?

4.4. What other vitamins or minerals are essential during the pregnancy?

4.5. Which aliments should be avoided during the pregnancy?

4.6. How to avoid constipation?

5. NEEDS, CRAVINGS AND DIET CONTA-INDICATES

5.1. How much do you have to eat?

5.2. Which are your diet needs?

5.3. What to do if you are feeling bad?

5.4. How to deal with the cravings during the pregnancy?

5.5. What you should avoid?

6. HOW MUCH MORE SHOULD WEIGHT A WOMAN WHEN SHE IS PREGNANT?

6.1. Where do additional kilograms come from?

7. EXERCISES DURING THE PREGNANCY

7.1. Which are the advantages of exercise during the pregnancy?

7.2. Which kind of exercise is indicated?

7.3. Which precautions you should take?

7.4. Useful advice

8. PETS AND PREGNANCY

8.1. The pregnancy’s safety

8.2. Can dogs attack?

8.3. Cats and babies

8.4. Get ready, get ready, get ready

8.5. The baby’s safety

8.6. Negative reactions

9. PREGNANCY AND SMOKING

9.1. Preparing the pregnancy

9.2. Why is it dangerous to smoke during the pregnancy?

9.3. How does smoking affect the unborn child?

9.4. I am pregnant and I am still smoking

10. PREGNANCY AND TRAVELLING

10.1. Details about insurance

10.2. Plane traveling

10.3. Vaccination and medicines

10.4. Diarrhea medicines

10.5. Other risks

10.6. Signs of danger

11. SEX DURING THE PREGNANCY

11.1. Is it alright to have sex during the pregnancy?

11.2. Can a couple continue their sex life normally?

11.3. When it is not recommended having sex during the pregnancy?

11.4. What should a couple do when the tummy grows?

11.5. Does the sexual appetite diminish during the pregnancy?

12. THE BIRTH STAGES

12.1. Which are the stages you will pass during giving birth?

12.2. Labor induction

12.3. Backaches

II. THE BABY

13. HOW TO HOLD THE BABY IN YOUR ARMS?

13.1. Pros and cons for holding the babies

13.2. Different methods to hold the baby in your arms

14. THE HEALTHY BABY

14.1. Behavior patterns

15. TWELVE REASONS BABIES CRY

16. HOW TO CALM THE BABY WHEN HE IS CRYING

16.1. As I am sure you already know, babies cry, a lot!

16.2. Soothing techniques

17. HOW TO BATH A NEWBORN?

17.1. Washing him with a towel

17.2. Bathing in the tub

17.3. Safety when taking his bath

17.4. How to bath the baby?

18. BREASTFEEDING

18.1. How to start breastfeeding?

18.2. How often you should breastfeed?

18.3. How to feel comfortable?

18.4. What you should eat?

18.5. Problems you might face

19. DIAPERS

19.1. Preparation

19.2. Wiping out

19.3. The disposable diapers

19.4. Preventing the rashes

20. TEETH GROWTH

20.1. When do they develop?

20.2. How do they develop?

21. THE SLEEP SCHEDULE OF YOUR BABY

21.1. Sleep basis

21.2. The sleep schedule

21.3. Sleep problems

I. THE PREGNANCY

1. THE SYMPTOMS OF BIRTH: THE FIRST TEN SIGNS TELLING YOU COULD BE PREGNANT

Could you be pregnant? Most likely you won’t be noticing the symptoms until you don’t menstruate-or a week or two later. If you don’t keep a record of the menstrual cycle or if it varies a lot from a month to another, you cannot be sure when you have to wait for it. But if you start having some of the symptoms described below-some women don’t have them all-and you didn’t had your period for some time, there is a great probability you are pregnant. Buy a pregnancy test from the pharmacy and find out for sure if you are pregnant!

1. Doughy and enlarged breast

One of the immediate signs of a pregnancy is sensible and enlarged breasts caused by the increased hormonal level.

2. Fatigue

You feel tired all of the sudden? Or maybe even exhausted. No one knows for sure what causes the tiredness in the first stages of pregnancy, but it is possible that the level of progesterone increasing fast contributes to the insomnia.

3. Bleedings

Some women experience weak vaginal bleeds at about eleven, twelve days after the insemination (close to the moment you will be noticing the lack of menstruation).

4. Nausea and states of vomit

If you fit in the pattern of most women, the morning sickness will not show up until after a month from conceiving (a little lucky escape of this burden). But some women start feeling a light nausea a little earlier. These nauseas do not always show in the morning, the pregnancy related morning sickness, which include nausea and vomit states can be a problem as much both in the morning and afternoon and in the evening.

5. Increased sensitiveness

If you are in the beginning of the pregnancy, it is not uncommon you do not like the smell of a ham sandwich or of a cup of coffee or other flavors that activate your reflexes. Even though nobody knows for sure, this could be a secondary effect of the fast growth of estrogen level from your body. Also, you might notice that some foods that you used to love seem repulsive to you all of the sudden.

6. Abdominal bloating

The hormonal variations from the beginning of the pregnancy can give you a bloating sensation, similar the one some women have right before menstruating. Because of this, your clothes might seem tight around the waist, even in the beginning when the uterus is still small.

7. Frequent urinations

Shortly after the beginning of the pregnancy, you might have to go to the toilet more and more often. Why? Mostly because during the pregnancy the amount of blood and other fluids from the body increases, this takes to a higher volume of liquids that get to be eliminated.

8. The absence of menstrual cycle

If usually the menstrual cycle comes regularly and all of the sudden it does not come on time, you will probably get a pregnancy test long before you get to the symptoms mentioned above. But if the menstruation is not regular and you do not keep a record of it, you must track the symptoms presented and buy a pregnancy test from the pharmacy.

9. The core body temperature remains heightened

If you measured your core body temperature and noticed that it remains heightened for eighteen days in a row, then there is a great probability you are pregnant.

And finally …

10. The proof: A positive pregnancy test

Despite of what might be written on the package, a lot of pregnancy tests are not sensitive enough to detect a pregnancy until about a week after the absence of menstruation. So if you decide to get a test earlier than the mentioned period and it results negative, try another one after a few days.

2. THE OVULATION

2.1. What is the ovulation?

The ovulation process appears when an egg (and occasionally more than one) is released by the ovary, this being a fertile period of your menstrual cycle. Each month, an egg reaches maturity inside your ovary. Once it gets to a certain size, the egg is released from the ovary and introduced into the fallopian tubes towards the uterus. The choice which ovary releases the egg is purely arbitrary. The ovulation does not always change from an ovary to another each menstrual cycle.

2.2. How does the ovulation process establish? When can I get pregnant?

To be fertile, you must have intercourses starting a day, two before the ovulation and about twenty four hours after. The motive: the cells related to the sperm can live two, three days, but an egg cannot live more than twenty four hours after ovulation-unless, of course, comes the fertilization.

2.3. How can I tell which is the ovulation period that I am fertile in?

Establish when you should have the next menstrual cycle and count from that date back between twelve and sixteen days. This calculation offers you some days in which most probably you will be ovulating. For the women not having a twenty eight days menstrual cycle, the fourteenth day is most often the ovulation day. To use this method, you must know how many days your menstruation cycle usually lasts. The best and recommended method for establishing the fertility period is increased attention on your body and learning to see the signs and clues that the ovulation is imminent.

3. THE BABY’S SEX

3.1. People talking

There are a lot of people which tell us all sorts of methods and techniques, heard from the elders, to find out the sex of our babies. Most of these tales are just this, tales, but some are fun and don’t involve anything dangerous. Some of the most popular include engagement rings (that are twirled), the size or the shape of the pregnant woman’s belly, or other associations related to the cravings during the pregnancy or even by the position of the bed.

3.2. How can you find out if the baby is a boy or a girl?

The most utilized method to find out your baby’s sex is the ultrasound sonogram. This method is most accurate between the eighteenth and the twenty-second week of the pregnancy. In this period it is easier to find out the baby’s sex. Earlier dates are usually unfavorable for this kind of predictions, and the later dates become difficult because of the agglomerated uterus.

3.3. Which other methods exist to find out if the baby is a boy or a girl?

There are other methods to predict the sex, which are more accurate, but they present risks for the pregnancy. These methods usually have quite easy application techniques, but are commonly done only if other factors that need genetic testing are involved. The most popular methods are the amniocentesis and trofoblastic puncture (known especially by the English name Chorionic Villus Sampling-CVS). These tests can be used in the early pregnancy. They are much more precise than the ultrasounds, with results that are close to one hundred per cent. Most of the doctors will tell you they are one hundred per cent exact but there are still the risks of the lab errors. These are made in the first trimester or at the beginning of the second.

3.4. Likes on the baby’s sex

To be honest, we must admit there are people that have inveterate preferences concerning the baby’s sex. Sometimes this thing is due to the feeling of strong connection related to raising a boy or a girl. The family balance is another factor for which some persons have preferences concerning the baby’s sex.

3.5. Techniques to select the sex – How to select your baby’s sex?

There are families that have preferences on their future child’s sex, so that they choose to influence this aspect. Technologies like MicroSort, the genetic diagnostic pre implantation (PGD), Shettles and other methods for selecting the sex are used, attempts to influence the nature. Some of these techniques are safe while others not so much.

– MicroSort

It is a technique whereby it is attempted separating the sperm cells responsible for girls from those responsible for boys. The desired gender sperm is introduced directly into the uterus, usually through artificial insemination, and the effectiveness is approximately ninety three per cent rate of success when the choice is a girl and approximately eighty five per cent success rate in a boy’s case, according to microsort.com. MicroSort is based on the premise that the sperm cell responsible for feminine gender, which transport the X chromosomes, are bigger than the sperm cells responsible for male gender, that transport the Y chromosomes. The procedure implies a fluorescent coloration of the sperm sample and then the separation using the laser technology of the two kinds of sperm cells. The X chromosomes, bigger, absorb more color and shine brighter, can easily be identified. After, the sperm cells are sorted and only the ones carrying the desired gender are transferred into the uterus.

– The Shettles method

It is the most common technique for home and it is based on having the intercourse in certain days of the fertile period. The defenders of the method say that the efficiency is seventy five per cent, but other experts call in question this number. Remember that the chance of conceiving the desired gender is fifty per cent at each new birth, regardless the used method.

The theory is based on the fact that sperm cells carrying the Y chromosomes move quicker but live less than the sperm cells carrying the X chromosomes. Briefly, for those who want a boy, the Shettles method says that they should have sex as closer as possible to the ovulation. If they want a girl, they should have sex two to four days before the ovulation.

3.6. Do you want to know if your baby is going to be a boy or a girl?

Approximately half of the people interrogated say that they want to know the sex of their future baby. Others want it to be a surprise. Some want to know, but only at the second pregnancy. The most common motives for finding out the baby’s sex during the pregnancy are related to planning and the why not? reason. Some people want to set up the future baby’s room or buy clothes since the time of the pregnancy. This thing induces them the question: boy or girl? In many families this is a personal and fierce debate.

4. WHAT YOU SHOULD EAT DURING THE PREGNANCY?

4.1. Does a woman really need to eat for two?

It is often said that a pregnant woman should eat for two, but this thing is not true. What it is true is that during the pregnancy, a woman has to maintain a good nutrition for both. The developing baby gets all the food from his mother through the umbilical cord, so a healthy diet is very important. If the mother is lacking vitamins or nutrients, then it is possible that the future baby will inherit this deficiency.