Body After Baby

Body After Baby
Author: Jackie Keller
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2006
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781583332511

Getting back into shape can help mothers of newborns feel good about themselves after pregnancy-and give them the energy they need to get through their busy days. In Body After Baby, Jackie Keller, a celebrity nutrition and health coach and the founder of NutriFit, offers a simple eating and workout program guaranteed to help every mom lose the extra weight after her baby is born. With meal plans and more than one hundred delicious recipes high in vitamin-rich "superfuel foods," Keller provides: - easy and safe daily workouts to do in 10 minutes or less - helpful weekly shopping lists and label-reading tips - fun and simple movements that mother and baby can do together Easy-to-use for even the busiest mothers, Body After Babywill not only help moms get back into those favorite jeans, but it will also reduce their stress and give them more time and energy to spend with their new baby.

Cribsheet

Cribsheet
Author: Emily Oster
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2020-04-21
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0525559272

From the author of Expecting Better, The Family Firm, and The Unexpected an economist's guide to the early years of parenting. “Both refreshing and useful. With so many parenting theories driving us all a bit batty, this is the type of book that we need to help calm things down.” —LA Times “The book is jampacked with information, but it’s also a delightful read because Oster is such a good writer.” —NPR With Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet, she now tackles an even greater challenge: decision-making in the early years of parenting. As any new parent knows, there is an abundance of often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors, family, friends, and strangers on the internet. From the earliest days, parents get the message that they must make certain choices around feeding, sleep, and schedule or all will be lost. There's a rule—or three—for everything. But the benefits of these choices can be overstated, and the trade-offs can be profound. How do you make your own best decision? Armed with the data, Oster finds that the conventional wisdom doesn't always hold up. She debunks myths around breastfeeding (not a panacea), sleep training (not so bad!), potty training (wait until they're ready or possibly bribe with M&Ms), language acquisition (early talkers aren't necessarily geniuses), and many other topics. She also shows parents how to think through freighted questions like if and how to go back to work, how to think about toddler discipline, and how to have a relationship and parent at the same time. Economics is the science of decision-making, and Cribsheet is a thinking parent's guide to the chaos and frequent misinformation of the early years. Emily Oster is a trained expert—and mom of two—who can empower us to make better, less fraught decisions—and stay sane in the years before preschool.

Hello, Baby Good-bye, Baby Fat

Hello, Baby Good-bye, Baby Fat
Author: Sheldon Levine
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1999-12-22
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780688175788

Each year 400,000 pregnant women in the United States get the weight loss surprise of their lives: They lose so much weight after delivery that they weigh less than they did before they were pregnant. "The weight just seemed to come off by itself," they say. Want to know their secret? It's in this book--and in your "new mom" body. Contrary to popular belief, losing weight after childbirth is easier than at any other time--if you understand your body's unique postpartum chemistry. For the first time, weight loss expert Sheldon Levine, M.D., reveals the "three trimesters of weight loss" that occur after delivery, and how to lose weight at each stage, no matter how much you weighed before pregnancy: Birth to Three Months Postpartum: The best time to lose weight! The plummeting hormones and elevated metabolism of new motherhood naturally speed the process. Just follow Dr. Levine's simple dietary advice to help ward off the "baby blues" and boost energy, and your body will do the rest. Three to Six Months Postpartum: The key weight loss phase for overweight new moms: You can actually lower your set point--the weight your body "likes" best. Six to Nine Months Postpartum: Good news for overweight nursing moms: Their unique body chemistry allows weight loss to continue, offering a real chance of attaining (and maintaining) a healthy weight. Dr. Levine's simple fourteen-day menu plan is nutritionally sound for new and nursing moms. It increases energy, minimizes food cravings and mood swings, and includes recipes and lifestyle tips. His toning program takes only minutes a day. Both enhance the new mother's physical and emotional well-being. So forget sit-ups! Forget diets! Dr. Levine's new approach works with your body chemistry to make weight loss after childbirth easy, fast--and forever.

Weight Gain During Pregnancy

Weight Gain During Pregnancy
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 868
Release: 2010-01-14
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309131138

As women of childbearing age have become heavier, the trade-off between maternal and child health created by variation in gestational weight gain has become more difficult to reconcile. Weight Gain During Pregnancy responds to the need for a reexamination of the 1990 Institute of Medicine guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy. It builds on the conceptual framework that underscored the 1990 weight gain guidelines and addresses the need to update them through a comprehensive review of the literature and independent analyses of existing databases. The book explores relationships between weight gain during pregnancy and a variety of factors (e.g., the mother's weight and height before pregnancy) and places this in the context of the health of the infant and the mother, presenting specific, updated target ranges for weight gain during pregnancy and guidelines for proper measurement. New features of this book include a specific range of recommended gain for obese women. Weight Gain During Pregnancy is intended to assist practitioners who care for women of childbearing age, policy makers, educators, researchers, and the pregnant women themselves to understand the role of gestational weight gain and to provide them with the tools needed to promote optimal pregnancy outcomes.

Post Pregnancy Diet

Post Pregnancy Diet
Author: Amy Tan
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2015-06-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781514351109

If you are a new mom and want to restore your health, energy, mind and beauty in 30 days then this Amazon Bestseller's Post Pregnancy Diet is for you ,.. Giving birth and being a new mother is the most exhausting experience for most women. Following the trauma and pain of delivery, the immediate new responsibility of taking care of the baby leaves little time for the mother to rest and recover. A new mother's body is like a sponge at this time and absorbs whatever nutrients it can get. There could be many complications after giving birth if the new mother does not take care of herself. Postpartum haemorrhage, postpartum depression and fatigue are just a few common problems. . Going on a diet too soon to lose weight could increase the chance of having complications and weaken the body's constitution further, which could result in serious health problems for the woman in her later years. It is time that the woman's body goes through enormous changes. The body is at its weakest and the woman can easily fall ill. Also during this vulnerable period, much care should be taken to replenish lost nutrients and repair wear. There are many books, which emphasize what a pregnant woman should or shouldn't do.But there are just not enough books with information about how a new mother should look after herself. In particular, little has been shared about what her nutritional needs are, what food to eat, how to prepare it, and how to strengthen her body after the child is born. . A good post pregnancy diet and nutrition plan during this period cannot be overemphasized. Every care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the contents of this guide. Besides checking against published sources, the author took the effort to speak to or interview the gurus and experts in their respective fields and had them verify the information provided in this book. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... ... How the diet help to restore your health, energy, mind and beauty in 30 days What special ingredients to use which increase your immune system to fight against illnesses What are the secret tips to make the food more nutritious and delicious How to prepare the secret recipes to increase your milk production for breastfeeding moms And much, much more! This is a book for all recovering new mothers and the people who care for them. Want to know more? . Simply scroll up and download a copy of this guide right away! .

PeeWee Pilates

PeeWee Pilates
Author: Holly Jean Cosner
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2005-12-27
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0738210293

You want your pre-pregnancy figure back, but you have little time to devote to exercise-yes, attending to the needs of your newborn is a full-time job. With PeeWee Pilates, you no longer have to choose between the two!

The Best Birth

The Best Birth
Author: Sarah McMoyler
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-04-22
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780738211213

Move over Lamaze and Bradley! Already taking the west coast by storm, the McMoyler Method offers a modern, medically savvy approach to labor and delivery that addresses the hopes and fears of today's expectant parents.The Best Birth prepares couples for what will be one of the most astounding, least predictable events of their lives, using simple principles such as: Any birth after which the mother and child are healthy is a success You already have the only doula you need The medical staff wants the same thing you do-healthy mom, healthy baby With the McMoyler Method, there's no guilt or regret for choosing an epidural or having a C-section; it's about helping moms cope, involving partners every step of the way, and working with doctors and nurses for the best birth-no matter how it happens.