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When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads, Revised Edition

When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads, Revised Edition

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Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books
Category: EBooks

List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 reviews
Sales Rank: 2794

Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432

Dewey Decimal Number: 618.25
ASIN: B000VYX8X6

Publication Date: September 4, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
The double whammy of successful infertility treatments and an increase in the number of women having children later in life has resulted in a staggering--but perhaps not surprising--phenomenon: a tremendous increase in twin, triple, and quadruple births. When Youre Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads is an outstanding, much-needed addition to the pregnancy genre for women who face the alternating joy, terror, and ambivalence associated with carrying, delivering, and coping with young multiples.

Subjects like nutrition, mom's changing body and emotions, fetal development, potential complications, and labor and delivery take on new meaning when you add another baby or two to the standard equation. With the goal of minimizing risk factors associated with multiple births, Dr. Barbara Luke and her team of writers cover each subject with a buoyant determination to tell it all and tell it well--avoiding the typical "how to name and dress your twins" issues. Accompanying the detailed medical perspective of Dr. Luke are personal experiences gathered from the journals of a few articulate moms, making each subject as real as it is educational. Simple illustrations, valuable charts (including one to plot and monitor fetal growth in grams or pounds), specific menu examples (like how can you consume 4,500 calories if you're expecting quads???), and lots of reassurance make this book a winner. --Liane Thomas

Product Description
"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."




Customer Reviews:   Read 167 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Excellent Book!!!   August 25, 2008
This book provides detailed information to any woman who is expecting super twins. The information available in this book is so unique that I could not find in any other general pregnancy book. I strongly recommend it for any woman expecting triplets or more!



1 out of 5 stars Condensending   August 7, 2008
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I hated this book. While it did contain useful information, it also had a lot of stuff that I found offensive. Stuff saying how your triplets did not ask to be triplets (putting the blame on you) and how if something goes wrong its your fault. The section about how the woman treats the husband drove me crazy too. I felt like it was a throw back to the 60s.


3 out of 5 stars Disappointed   July 12, 2008
 0 out of 3 found this review helpful

Its Ok.. I hoped for it to be a little more like What to expect when expecting.. I was disappointed


5 out of 5 stars Excellent Book!   June 27, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I am expecting twins. This book is an excellent source for the nutritional needs required for pregnant women with multiples. There are also other great topics in the book. I highly recoemmend it if you are expecting multiples!


5 out of 5 stars Educational and encouraging   June 19, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book was invaluable during my twin pregnancy, explaining clearly how and why this would be different from my singleton pregnancy. The diagrams of increasing head size and decreasing hospital stay length kept me motivated, even when the going got tough near the end.

I didn't try to get all the calories Dr. Luke recommends every day, but I did eat the way she described and kept my weight gain right in the window she gives. Her insight on the need for weight gain before week 28 was right on -- I lost a few pounds in the last month because my body couldn't keep up with the babies' needs.

The result? Delivery at 37 weeks and 1 day. Nathaniel was a healthy 6 lbs, 7 oz, and his sister Grace was 5 lbs, 13 oz. Both had brief NICU time, stayed with us the rest of the time in the hospital, and were discharged with us. They're doing great! I was worried the weight gain would stick with me, but at three months postpartum, I'm within two pounds of my pre-pregnancy weight. Carefully gained weight really does come off.

Ultimately we're thankful to God, but Dr. Luke's book was so encouraging along the way!


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