Baby's Best Chance 4th revision 6th edition

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Becoming a Parent............................. 9
Your Suppor t Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Choosing Health Care Providers  . . . . . . . 11
Parent Checkup  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Lifestyle and Risk Factors  . . . . . . . . . 13
Saunas, Hot Tubs, and Hot Baths  . . . . . . .13
Getting X-rays and Other Tests  . . . . . . . 13
Taking Medications  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Smoking  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Drinking Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Using Street Drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Living with Abuse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Pet Safety  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Sexually Transmitted Infections . . . . . . . 16
Stages of Pregnancy  . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Fetal Growth Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Medical Care during Pregnancy  . . . . . . . 31
Eating for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding . . . 36
Eating Guidelines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Vegetarian Eating . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Taking Supplements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Special Food and Beverage Concerns  . . . . .41
Food Safety During Pregnancy  . . . . . . . . 42
Weight Gain in Pregnancy  . . . . . . . . . . 43
Self Care for Mothers and Partners  . . . . . 44
Physical Activity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Checking Posture  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Physical Activity after Baby . . . . . . . . .47
Reducing Stress  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Travelling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Sexuality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Working Safely  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Pregnancy Risk Factors  . . . . . . . . . . .51
Mid-life Pregnancies  . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Medical Complications  . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Preparing To Give Birth  . . . . . . . . . . .54
Health Care Support  . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Personal Support  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Your Birth Wishes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Packing for the Hospital  . . . . . . . . . . 57
Preparing for Labour  . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Relaxing for Labour  . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Breathing for Labour . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Comfort Positions during Labour  . . . . . . 61
Giving Birth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Fetal Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
First Stage of Labour  . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Second Stage of Labour  . . . . . . . . . . .70
Third Stage of Labour  . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Fourth Stage of Labour  . . . . . . . . . . .73
Medical Procedures that May Be Needed to Assist
Labour and Birth  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Pain Relief Options . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Caesarean Birth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Special Birth Issues  . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Preterm Labour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Losing a Baby  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Coming Home  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Your Body After Pregnancy  . . . . . . . . . 83
Life With Your Baby  . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Postpartum Depression  . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Being a Supportive Partner  . . . . . . . . .87
Parenting Can Be Frustrating  . . . . . . . .88
Being a Single Parent  . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Doing the Paperwork . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Leave from Work  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Changing Your Will  . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Registering the Birth  . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Choosing a Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Applying for Canada Child Benefits  . . . . .90
Arranging for Medical Coverage  . . . . . . .90
Next Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Babysitters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Family Planning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Your Baby  ..................................97
Breastfeeding Your Baby  . . . . . . . . . . 98
Comfortable Positions  . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Latching On  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
The Let-down Reflex  . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
How Much and How Long?  . . . . . . . . . . .101
Taking Care of Yourself  . . . . . . . . . . 103
Getting Help with Breastfeeding . . . . . . .105
Expressing Breast Milk  . . . . . . . . . . .106
Formula Feeding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Breastfeeding and Work  . . . . . . . . . . .108
Vitamin D Supplement  . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Feeding the First Solid Foods  . . . . . . ..109
Baby Care  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..110
Emotional Attachment  . . . . . . . . . . . .110
Sleeping  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
Safety and Sleeping . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Sleeping Equipment  . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Diapering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Bathing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Caring for Baby’s Skin  . . . . . . . . . . .116
Caring for Baby’s Nails  . . . . . . . . . . 116
Jaundice  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Bowel Movements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Peeing (Urinating)  . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Diarrhea  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Vomiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Coughing and Sneezing . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Dental Care  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Immunization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
How to Prevent Flat Areas
on Your Baby’s Head  . . . . . . . . . . . ..121
Tummy Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Crying  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Staying Calm as a Parent  . . . . . . . . .123
Shaken Baby Syndrome  . . . . . . . . . . .124
Managing your Anger . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Baby Medical Care  . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Vitamin K Injection  . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Eye Treatment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Newborn Screening . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Hearing  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .  .  .  . 126
Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Thrush (Yeast Infection)  . . . . . . . . 126
Circumcision  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Food Allergies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
High Temperatures  . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Baby Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128
Maintaining Basic Hygiene  . . . . . . . 128
General Home Safety Tips  . . . . . . . .128
Safe Baby Equipment  . . . . . . . . . . 129
Infant/Child Car Seats  . . . . . . . . . 131
Special Circumstances . . . . . . . . . .133
Preterm Babies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Low Weight Babies  . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Twins, Triplets, or More . . . . . . . . .133
Baby Development . . . . . . . . . . . . ..134
Physical Development  . . . . . . . . . . .135
Social/Emotional Development  . . . . . . .136
Language Development  . . . . . . . . . . .137
Parents’ Best Chance 139
Eating Well With Canada’s Food Guide  .. . .141
Resources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . .148
Glossary  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .156
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .162

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