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When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads, Revised Edition: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy

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A Clinically Proven Program for Women Pregnant with Multiples

Completely Updated, with 50 Recipes for Optimal Birth Weight

You're expecting more than one baby? Congratulations! In When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads, Dr. Barbara Luke's practical, nutrition-based program has been proven to lower complications, resulting in much healthier babies. This revision offers more nutritional information, 50 recipes to maximize birth weight, and new guidelines on nutritional needs and vegetarian options. It also includes updated information that reflects the most current obstetric and pediatric practices, such as expanded safety information on exercise and reducing your risk for complications.

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.25
EAN: 9780060542689
ISBN: 0060542683
Label: Collins Living
Manufacturer: Collins Living
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2004-06-01
Publisher: Collins Living
Release Date: 2004-06-15
Studio: Collins Living


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Mothering Multiples: Breastfeeding and Caring for Twins or More! (La Leche League International Book)
• Ready or Not Here We Come!: The Real Experts' Guide to the First Year With Twins
• Twinspiration: Real-Life Advice From Pregnancy Through the First Year (for Parents of Twins and Multiples)
• Everything You Need to Know to Have a Healthy Twin Pregnancy
• The Multiple Pregnancy Sourcebook: Pregnancy and the First Days with Twins, Triplets, and More


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Made it through - thank goodness for thisbook!
Comment: Best book out there - and trust me, I bought them all! If it wasn't for this book, I never would have realized that I was completely undereating due to worries of gaining excessive weight. If I hadn't followed what the author suggested (at least mostly followed) I can't imagine how tiny my twins would have been. They were still 6 weeks early, but at 4-4 each, they were healthy enough to only spend 2 weeks in the NICU. They are now 5 months and a huge 15 pounds each!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Full of scare tactics and unrealistic expectations
Comment: This book is great if you can manage to princess it up on the couch or in bed from the minute you find out you're pregnant with twins or more and like to stuff your face endlessly with junk food to meet incredibly high calorie recommendations. If you have to work or have a family already, I'm sorry, but you're doomed. You will have tiny, unhealthy babies and your pregnancy will suck.

I feel it's also important to note that "Doctor" Luke is a doctor in the PhD sense and not an MD sense - she's a nutritionist and not a physician so be prepared for endless pages of lecturing about food. Also, she loves to talk about how fabulous her clinic is and how hopeless your chances are of a good pregnancy elsewhere.

Use common sense. Find a doctor who has delivered multiples, if you can afford a nutritionist, try to find one who has worked with pregnant women and take it easy as much as possible. But don't beat yourself up about not being able to eat 3500 calories or more, having to work or taking care of your family.

Customer Rating:
Summary: I cannot say enough about this book!
Comment: When I found out my husband and I were expecting twins after first having a miscarriage at twelve weeks, I felt determined to learn all that I could to be as healthy as possible.

This book is simply fantastic! It discusses in depth what you need to be eating to ensure proper weight gain, complete with recipes! I still remember to this day: my goal was 24lbs by 24 weeks. My OB mentioned at one of my visits that I had gained quite a bit from my last visit and mentioned, I think only half-jokingly, to 'not eat an extra piece of pie' at Thanksgiving. Thank goodness I had already started reading this book. I just smiled and nodded, all the while knowing that I had my own 'agenda'!

I credit this book, in part, for my boys being so healthy when they were born 9 1/2 weeks early at 30 weeks and 4 days due to PPROM. Neither one was ever on the vent, and they went home WELL before their due date. They were due April 4th and went home Feb. 23 and March 1st. The nurses had even mentioned that I must have done 'something right' and had taken really good care of myself during my pregnancy for the boys to have been so healthy.

In short, I wouldn't hesitate to completely recommend this book. It is a great resource and so unlike other pregnancy books that discuss multiple birth as an afterthought.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Information
Comment: Overall I really liked this book. I liked the information about protein and the importance of rest. I loved the baby foot prints and looked at them often.

I was not always able to meet the protein recommendations, but I did more than what I would have, and I think it helped. I drank protein powder drinks the last few weeks.

In the end -- my babies were born at 37 1/2 weeks, weighing 6 pounds 1 ounces and 6 pounds 5 ounces. I am 5 feet 3 inches tall, so this was a lot for me. But -- I felt kind of like a loser b/c in the book the "good moms" have 7 or 8 pound babies. But now (6 months later) I just feel lucky to have healthy babies, and happy I was able to carry them so long and that they had a solid birth weight, and I do think this book helped me. It helped me take my pregnance seriously, too.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Very good information
Comment: The information provided in this book was extremely useful for me during my pregnancy with my twins. I read this book over and over agian.I especially liked the part where it tells which kind of food is important in what trimester and why it is important to concentrate on those foods more in that partcular trimester. I also liked the break down of the weight that needs to be gained with an explanation of why that break down is necessary. Awesome book. I will recommend this to anyone having multiples

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