From trusted pregnancy and baby care expert Dr Miriam Stoppard, a guide to every magical stage of your pregnancy, from pre-conception planning to the first days of life. Packed with reassuring, fully updated advice on fertility treatment, antenatal care, nutrition, exercise and your choices in childbirth and special sections on working mothers and expectant fathers - keep it close so there's always somewhere to turn if you have a question. A month-by-month pregnancy calendar showing your baby's development in the womb means you'll know what's happening when. Perfect for knowing what you will go through at every stage.

Author Biography

Dr Miriam Stoppard has been at the forefront of the revolution in health information since she began her writing and broadcasting career in the early 1970s. Since that time she has become well known to millions all over the world as a leading authority on parenting, baby and child care, women's health, and many other topics from healthy eating to relationships and sex. In 2000 she set up Miriam Stoppard LifeTime, of which she is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, to extend her philosophy into products and services. Her blend of medical training (she studied medicine at the universities of London and Durham), business connections (she has been the Director of a number of companies ranging from pharmaceuticals to interior design), and direct experience of the problems of ordinary people (she answers readers' letters in a column in The Daily Mirror, read by 10 million people every day), have made her uniquely qualified as a writer on health matters. What's more, she is a parent herself - she has two sons of her own and four step-children - and is now also a grandparent. She knows from her own experience the stresses placed on modern families trying to do their best