Pregnancy, birth, and family planning : the definitive work

Author(s)

• Guttmacher, Alan Frank
• Kaiser, Irwin H.

Bibliographic Information

Pregnancy, birth, and family planning : the definitive work

by Alan F. Guttmacher ; revised and brought up-to-date by Irwin H. Kaiser ; with drawings by Glenna Deutsch

Dutton, c1986

• pbk.

Note

Bibliography: p. 565-567

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This revised and updated edition answers the questions that expectant mothers and fathers have about pregnancy, the development of the foetus, and childbirth.

Table of Contents

• You were a long shot
• impregnation
• are you pregnant?
• duration of pregnancy
• the foetus
• care during pregnancy
• the pregnant months
• diet during pregnancy
• complaints and complications of pregnancy
• spontaneous abortion, induced abortion and premature labour
• diseases and operations during pregnancy
• the mechanics of labour
• spontaneous labour and delivery
• seven births
• difficult labour
• foetal monitoring
• obstetrical operations
• convalescence after childbirth
• twins and other multiple births
• early foetal diagnosis
• family planning
• infertility
• the newborn baby.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BA6227258X
• ISBN:
  • 0525244204
  • 0452258278
• LCCN: 86000706
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxviii, 596 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RG525
  • DC19 : 618.2/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Pregnancy
  • LCSH : Childbirth
  • LCSH : Birth control
  • MESH : Family Planning -- popular works
  • MESH : Obstetrics -- popular works
  • MESH : Pregnancy -- popular works