Planning for a Healthy Baby

by Belinda Barnes (Author), SuzanneGailBradley (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $4.50

  Healthy parents produce healthy babies, but planning for the best start in life needs to begin well in advance - even before conception. Foresight, the aptly named association for preconceptual care, has discovered a variety of factors that can cause damage and ill health to the unborn. Happily, many of these can be pre-empted by a practical programme of health care that is easy to understand and follow. This book provides advice on preconceptual and prenatal care. The Foresight guidelines include advice on nutrition, family planning, toxic substances to avoid and common illnesses and diseases. Their blueprint for a healthy baby will be of interest not only to prospective parents but to doctors, midwives and all involved in childcare. Foresight are particularly active in solving infertility problems naturally. Belinda Barnes has also written The Hyperactive Child with Irene Colquhoun.

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.24

  Babies are meant to be born whole and healthy; sadly, too many are not. This book shows prospective parents how, with the help of proven guidelines, they can start planning for a healthy baby - even before conception. The guidelines developed by Foresight, the Association for Preconceptual Care, have been used by thousands of parents, many with a history of miscarriages or stillbirths, to conceive and give birth successfully to beautiful, whole, healthy babies. Foresight's simple-to-follow programme has identified many of the factors that can damage the unborn and shows how, with a practical system of healthcare, many of these can be avoided. The book includes advice on nutrition, family planning, toxic substances to avoid, and common illnesses and diseases that can affect the unborn child. Now fully revised and updated to take account of changes in medical practice and knowledge of issues such as listeria, pre-natal testing and more, Planning for a Healthy Baby is aimed at every prospective parent, whether or not they have experienced problems before.