The Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth sets out to offer "the soundest, sanest, wittiest advice you'll ever get" about life as an expectant mum. Covering "the scary parts, the funny parts and your private parts" Australian author Kaz Cooke counts down to motherhood using a week-by-week format, at each stage explaining what's going on to you and baby, exploring common health complaints, suggesting remedies and looking at what will happen at antenatal visits. She also includes a semi-fictitious weekly diary account that provides a friendly and very funny voice to reassure you that you're not alone.

A week by week guide to what's happening to you and the baby covers:

* How to prepare for pregnancy and your baby.
* Crying, eating, weeing and working, blokes, bosoms and busybodies.
* Nausea and other 'side effects'.
* Choosing how and where you give birth.
* What tests are like and what they're for.
* Stretch marks, maternity and baby clothes, NCT classes, baby names and how to be rude to complete strangers.
* Childbirth and pain relief, what to expect in hospital.
* Breastfeeding for beginners, and what it's like with a newborn baby.

• Paperback
• 432 pages
• Publisher: Rough Guides
• Size: 153 x 234mm

Price: € 14.95