Making a Baby: Everything You Need to Know to Get Pregnant

by Debra Fulghum Bruce, Samuel Thatcher, Britt Berg

You may have waited a long time. You may have tried and tried. Now your chances of having a baby are better than ever!
 
For ten years, Making a Baby has been the definitive source for couples who want to get pregnant, offering vital information on fertility technology, advances in baby-boosting medications, and cutting-edge medical techniques. Written with compassion and clarity, and now with even more tips on the best ways to prepare the body to get pregnant, this invaluable book, in a newly revised and updated edition, reveals how to protect, increase, and extend your fertility. Inside you’ll find
 
• the four basic requirements for reproduction
• findings from the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study that explain dietary ways to boost fertility
• breakthrough information connecting insulin levels with ovulation
• updates on the importance of marine omega-3 fatty acids in your baby’s development
• groundbreaking pregnancy advice for women over 35
• news about polycystic ovary syndrome—and the recommended fertility drugs that may temporarily override this condition and boost chances of conception
• what every man should know about his long-term reproductive health, including the most recent findings on male infertility
 
This detailed, insightful, and meticulously researched book will help guide you to a wonderful new beginning as a parent!

Genres: Nonfiction

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Author Deb Bruce is a graduate of the University of South Florida School of Communications in Tampa, Florida. As a prolific communicator who has mastered her craft, Deb was recently chosen as the Outstanding Alumnus of the Year (1998) by the University of South Florida for her journalism contributions.

She has a fresh but persuasive writing style, publishing more than 2,500 feature articles in such magazines as Woman's Day, Prevention, and Success. As former Editor of Living Well Today, Deb has written 40 books, working with editors of such major houses as Ballentine, Bantam, Macmillan USA, Dell, Simon & Schuster, Avon, W. W. Norton, John Wiley, Dutton, Kensington, and Henry Holt.

Current promotional ventures include ongoing weekly seminars given by coauthors, as well as a new fitness video entitled Flexible Fitness: An Arthritis Workout, featuring actress Linda Lavin, star of Broadway's Gypsy and the television sitcom Alice, and distributed through Daniel Edelman Agency, New York. Features and excerpts from her many books have recently appeared in such popular mass-market magazines as Vogue, Prevention, Men's Health, McCall's, US News and World Report, Redbook, New Choices, Mature Outlook, Woman's Day, Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Glamour, Walking, Cooking Light, Shape, and Woman's World Weekly. Her coauthors have appeared on numerous programs including CNN News, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and the Today Show , as well as radio and television talk shows. Her book I'd Kill for a Cookie was chosen by USA TODAY as one of the Top 10 Health Books in l997.

Specializing in health and spiritual collaborations, Deb has 15 years of experience working with renowned specialists in the fields of psychology, gerontology, rheumatology, cardiology, pulmonology, sleep medicine, pediatrics, ophthalmology, internal medicine, nutrition, urology, and psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). Deb's energy, tenaciousness, and inquisitive manner enable her to create health books of the finest quality, and she has an inherent ability to work well with coauthors and editors.

Reviews

[Jules · Rating 2 out of 5]

More targeted for those with fertility issues than those just wanting basic details. As a practical resource for the ladies, I found "Taking Charge of your Fertility" much more informative and useful, for those of us just taking a first crack at it rather than already struggling with fertility challenges.

[Suzy Singleton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. I learned a lot of facts regarding conception.

[Sabry · Rating 3 out of 5]

I learned a lot of facts reading this book.
Very interesting book.

[Lyndsey · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was def. geared more towards the infertile couple, but had some useful and interesting information and suggestions.

[Sue Kozlowski · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the first book of my "babies" reading phase! Read lots of books about pregnancy, breastfeeding, and raising babies. Very informative but hard to understand some of the medical jargon.