Big, Beautiful & Pregnant
Almost half of all pregnant women in the U.S. today are overweight. The plus-size woman faces a special set of challenges during her pregnancy, yet there are few places to turn for reliable information and helpful advice geared to these women's needs.
Big, Beautiful, & Pregnant is for every plus-size woman who has read other pregnancy guides only to think, "What about me? What steps should I take to make my pregnancy healthy and happy?"
In Big, Beautiful & Pregnant, Harvard Vanguard's Cornelia van der Ziel, MD, draws upon more than twenty-five years of experience in women's health and her understanding of high-risk pregnancies to offer up a dependable resource targeted to the specific needs of the plus-size woman. A clinical instructor in obstetrics and gynecology at Harvard Medical School, Dr. van der Ziel is a practicing physician within Harvard Vanguard's Cambridge and Medford practices.
She partners on the book with Jacqueline Tourville, a certified childbirth educator and a plus-size mom who's lived the experience. Together they offer a warm, witty, medically-sound guide for overweight women containing:
- Medical advice and information
- Inspiration
- A sense of sisterhood
- Reassurance
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What others are saying about Big, Beautiful & Pregnant*:
"Big, Beautiful, and Pregnant will leave you feeling confident, sexy, and informed for nine months and beyond."
--Ann Douglas, author, The Mother of All Pregnancy Books
"Plus-size moms-to-be will love Cornelia van der Ziel's Big, Beautiful and Pregnant. It's understanding and understandable, positive and inspiring and always a source of information that's often hard to find elsewhere."
--Ina May Gaskin, author, Spiritual Midwifery
"Solid advice for the "big, beautiful and pregnant" woman. Plus-sized women who are expecting, as well as those planning to have children, will find practical advice and warm reassurance."
--Kirkus Review
* Statements reflect personal points of view; they do not reflect the endorsement of the institutions with which the individuals that are being quoted are affiliated.