Pregnancy Series I

Book excerpt: The outmost goal of managing a pregnancy is to prevent complications and enhance safe labour, childbirth, and neonatal period. This goal is achieved in this book. The first chapter on prepregnancy care deals with what you have to do before trying for a baby; this was followed with human anatomy, early pregnancy and its peculiarities, foetal development week-by-week, and then antenatal care in succession. Dr Abbey explains the modern techniques of prenatal diagnosis and ultrasound assessment of your baby at different stages of pregnancy. Attention was also paid to both minor and major conditions that can influence the course of your pregnancy and of particular interest is notification on when to seek a medical opinion. This book is unique because its content is based on the evidence of modern practice of obstetrics, and this is shown by enumerating the sources of information for every chapter.