Sleeping Better in Pregnancy - A Guide to Sleep Health for Pregnant Women by Clare Ladyman

$25.00 NZD

Category: Pregnancy & Childbirth

Increasingly we are understanding how vital sleep is to our general health and feeling of wellbeing. Many of us struggle to get a good night's sleep, but the challenge is especially hard for pregnant women. The changes in women's bodies during this time have a huge impact on sleep, and sleep disruption is very common. It can be difficult to get helpful, accurate information on sleep in pregnancy. But the latest research from Massey University's Sleep/Wake Centre gives you the tools you need to manage your sleep over each trimester. There will be challenges in meeting your sleep needs, but the ideas and information in this approachable and easy-to-read book will assist you in making the most of your sleep opportunities. Includes up-to-date information about sleep, and the latest research on our circadian clock, REM and NREM sleep; a section on strategies for sleep health in pregnancy, including how the different hormones affect your body and your sleep; and the challenges to sleep during each trimester. ...Show more

The Science of Pregnancy: The Complete Illustrated Guide from Conception to Birth by DK

$48.00 NZD

Category: Pregnancy & Childbirth

Follow the amazing journey of the earliest stages of human life, with month-by-month development shown in unprecedented detail. The complex concepts and processes of emerging life are demystified in clear, jargon-free text, while specially commissioned 3D images, extraordinary photographs, and detailed artworks illustrate every aspect of human pregnancy. The 3D artworks, illustrations, scans, and photographs show exactly how a baby changes and grows during pregnancy, and how the female body adapts to carry it. A chapter on labour and birth explains these processes with step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-grasp text. The Science of Pregnancyalso looks at the nature of human pregnancy, including how it evolved, and explores the anatomy and physiology of both the male and female reproductive systems. The mysteries of DNA and genetics are unravelled and explained in clear, illustrated detail, including patterns of inheritance and the interplay of genes and environment. The book also provides straightforward, illustrated information on possible problems before, during, and after birth. ...Show more

Mindful Pregnancy by DK

$40.00 NZD

Category: Pregnancy & Childbirth

Are you a yoga-loving, mindful mum-to-be looking for sound advice on how to enjoy a natural, stress-free pregnancy? If so, this is your go-to guide. Organised trimester by trimester, the book offers safe yoga, meditation, natural remedies, nutritional and hypnobirthing advice and techniques to match yo ur stage of pregnancy and the development of your baby. Encouraging, practical advice will help you to embrace change, understand your body, relish your pregnancy and prepare you for becoming a mum. Troubleshoot pregnancy aches and pains with appropriate exercises, quell morning sickness with natural remedies and food, bond with your baby through meditation and movement, and prepare your body and mind safely and healthily for childbirth using strengthening exercises and hypnobirthing techniques. Feel empowered to deliver your baby with strength and confidence. And after the birth, continue to use these natural techniques and resources in those first few days and weeks as you recover, bond with your baby and embrace your life as a new mum. ...Show more

Up the Duff (2020 Edition) by Kaz Cooke

$50.00 NZD

Category: Pregnancy & Childbirth

First published in 1999, Kaz Cooke's best-selling Up the Duff is firmly established as the most loved and trusted book for Australian and New Zealand women on pregnancy. This 20th-anniversary edition has been fully revised and updated. Australia's most trusted advisor on women's health delivers the low down on pregnancy, birth and how to best prepare for life with a baby. There's no bossy-boots advice - just lots of cartoons and the soundest, sanest, wittiest advice you'll ever get. Inside there's the crucial week-by week info on what's happening to you and the baby, coupled with the hilarious diary of Hermoine the (even more) Modern Girl, and everything you need to know about preparing for pregnancy and birth- info on conceiving and the latest in IVF; crying, eating, weeing, sleeping, working; partners, bosoms, busybodies and bunny-rugs; nausea, stretch marks and other 'side effects' mucking with your 'glow'; the very latest tests - what they are, what they're for and when you should have them; healthy foetal growth, development and movements; the best services, websites and books on everything pregnancy; 'natural childbirth' vs medical intervention; baby clothes and nappies; travel, safety, and how to be rude to complete strangers; labour, caesareans and pain relief; breastfeeding and what it's life's like with a newborn baby. Up the Duff has all you need to know on pregnancy and childbirth- the scary parts, the funny parts, the joyful parts - and your private parts. ...Show more

Mind Body Baby - Best Chance Conceiving by Ann Bracken

$28.00 NZD

Category: Pregnancy & Childbirth | Reading Level: General Adult

Hospital visits, calendar watching, disheartening test results and scheduled sex can make trying for a baby a stressful experience, and the strain it puts on couples and individuals struggling with infertility can impact hugely on the likelihood of successful conception. With an approach that puts wellb eing at the heart of fertility, this easy-to-follow guide by top fertility specialist Ann Bracken offers a proven successful alternative to formal counselling. Her comprehensive and supportive book gives help and guidance on how to enhance and improve the outcome. With a focus on mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques, which have been scientifically proven to help overcome the stress and anxiety associated with fertility problems, the author examines the emotional issues around fertility and conception and offers step-by-step exercises to help readers improve their chances of conceiving. With a whole chapter on nutrition by renowned nutritionist Dr Marilyn Glenville, the integrated mind/body approach in this book offers a plan for the best possible chance of getting pregnant. Offering the perfect blend of emotional support and practical advice on lifestyle changes for infertility this is a must-have book for every couple hoping to get pregnant, written by an expert author with years of experience as a Fertility Counsellor and Mindfulness-Based Therapist. 'After 20 years of supporting fertility patients I am convinced that an integrated mind-body approach delivers the best outcome. Ann Bracken has a practical and compassionate approach, as demonstrated in her brilliant new book. It is a much-needed antidote to the all-too-often stressful and soul-searching path to parenthood. I will be recommending it to my fertility patients' Emma Cannon, integrated fertility and pregnancy expert, acupuncturist and author of The Baby-Making Bible 'All too often the management of reproductive health is seen through the narrow prism of a particular clinician or clinic. This book provides the perfect balance outlining the integrative mind and body approach and provides an essential complement to the medical aspects of the fertility journey' Dr James Nicopoullos, Consultant Gynaecologist & Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine, The Lister Clinic, Lister Hospital, Chelsea, London 'Ann Bracken expertly shows readers how to weave mindfulness into their lives to help them take care of their wellbeing as they live through a challenging process. Her book includes a great deal else besides, but I was impressed by how she makes mindfulness so readily accessible.' Padraig O'Morain, mindfulness teacher and psychotherapist, author of Mindfulness on the Go, Mindfulness for Worriers ...Show more

Up the Duff: The Real Guide to Pregnancy by Kaz Cooke

$55.00 NZD

Category: Pregnancy & Childbirth

Kaz Cooke gives you the up-to-date lowdown on pregnancy, birth and coping when you first get home. No bossy-boots rules, just lots of cartoons and the soundest, sanest, wittiest advice you'll ever get. Everything you need to know about the scary parts, the funny parts and your private parts.The latest e dition of Up the Duff has week-by-week info on what's happening to you and the baby; Hermoine and the Modern Girl's hilarious pregnancy diary AND how to prepare for pregnancy and the baby; info on conceiving and IVF; crying, eating, weeing, working, blokes, bosoms, busybodies and bunny-rugs; nausea and other 'side effects'; tests- what they're like and what they're for; the best services, websites and books on everything; stretch marks; 'natural childbirth' vs medical intervention; baby clothes and nappies; travel, safety, and how to be rude to complete strangers; labour, caesareans and pain relief; breastfeeding and what it's like with a newborn baby. ...Show more

What to Expect When You're Expecting 5th Ed by Heidi Murkoff

$45.00 NZD

Category: Pregnancy & Childbirth

The world's favourite pregnancy book just got better.  This cover-to-cover new edition is filled with must-have information, advice, insight, and tips for a new generation of parents. With Heidi Murkoff's trademark warmth, empathy, and humour, What to Expect When You're Expecting answers every conceiva ble question expectant parents could have, including dozens of new ones based on the ever-changing pregnancy and birthing practices, and choices they face. Advice for partners is fully integrated throughout the book. What to Expect When You're Expecting has long been the go-to manual for parents-to-be around the world. With detailed week-by-week explanations of what is happening to mother and baby, and advice backed by the latest research - think preparation, diet, self-care and complications - this book reassures parents while it tackles problems and addresses issues particular to today's technological, multicultural and rapidly changing society - from the use of alternative medicine and assisted conception, to options for labour, delivery and much more. Totally revised and updated for a new generation of expectant mothers and fathers.  ...Show more

Alison Jay's Baby Journal by Alison Jay

$29.99 NZD

Category: Pregnancy & Childbirth

Store the tender moments and exciting milestones of your baby's precious early years in this timeless journal. Record your thoughts and memories, safeguard your photos and special keepsakes, and write a letter for your child to open on their eighteenth birthday. A stunning padded hardback to document the first years of your baby's life. A beautiful keepsake and must have item for any parent. A baby journal is a thoughtful present for a new mum. Alison Jay's Baby Journal will become a treasured family item. And your baby will love flicking through it when they are older. ...Show more

Babies: The Mumsnet Guide - A Million Mums' Trade Secrets by Mumsnet & Carrie Longton & Justine Roberts (eds.)

$39.99 NZD

Category: Pregnancy & Childbirth | Series: Mumsnet

Babies: The Mumsnet Guide is an introduction to the strange world of the postnatal, a world of strong emotions and revolting excretions, the sublime and the ridiculous. It is the gathered up, boiled-down wisdom of thousands of mums and the occasional dad who have posted on mumsnet since its launch in Ju ne 2000 about everything to do with life after baby. From thoughtful advice about breastfeeding, colic and getting some sleep to debates about parenting gurus and the best form of childcare, by way of a fair bit of gore and the odd bit of flagrant silliness about postnatal vaginal circumference and baby names, Babies: The Mumsnet Guide contains the advice, thoughts, experiences and random burblings of thousands of parents - parents who have done a lot of the worrying for you already! ...Show more

My First Baby Book by eds.

$30.00 NZD

Category: Pregnancy & Childbirth

User's Guide to the New Zealand Pregnancy by Nicola Miller-Clendon

$45.00 NZD

Category: Pregnancy & Childbirth

Includes practical information on the physical changes a woman can expect during the pregnancy, as well as a plain language guide to the technology, testing regimes and bureaucratic form-filling encountered along the way. Chapters include pre-pregnancy, complications of pregnancy and labour. Paperback ...Show more

Bump & Grind: The A - Z Survival Guide for When You are Trying to Get Pregnant and Sick of Being Told to Relax by GENEVIEVE MORTON

$39.99 NZD

Category: Pregnancy & Childbirth

After 18 months of trying to get pregnant without success, Genevieve Morton was told over and over to just relax! But she couldn't. She scoured fertility books hoping one would make her feel better about herself or at least less alone. But they made her feel worse. Sure, they all told her how to pinpoi nt ovulation and analyse her cervical mucus (ew!). But none of them could help her cope with the Smug Fertility Goddesses parading their bulging pregnant bellies around the office or pesky relatives asked 'Anything yet?' as if she was waiting for the baby she bought on eBay to arrive. The everyday stresses of living with unexplained infertility made conceiving even harder. Determined to get her life back on track -- and stop nagging her husband over his tight undies and fourth beer -- Genevieve set about writing a fun and honest A-Z guide to coping with everyday life while trying to conceive. Bump & Grind was born. And she got pregnant along the way. This is the complete survival guide for every woman wondering if her sex life will ever be the same, what fertility-friendly super foods to eat, how to cope with disappointments and loss -- or just keep turning up to work -- when to dodge annoying questions from inquiring rellies and, of course, how to get pregnant. ...Show more