Pregnancy Planners – Your Practical Planner
Pregnancy Planners – Your Practical Pregnancy Planner
An indispensable legal guide, financial planner, and organizer for your journey through pregnancy and into parenthood
There are dozens of good books and pregnancy planners telling you what you need to know about the physical and emotional aspects of having a baby. But until now there were none devoted to the many financial and legal concerns of expectant parents, issues such as: “What are my rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act?” “Can the hospital run tests on my newborn without my permission?” “Should I take out a life insurance policy on my newborn?”
Written by family law attorney Brette McWhorter Sember, this book answers all those questions and more. Your Practical Pregnancy Planner:
- Fills you in on what you need to know about everything from maternity leave to estate planning, pregnancy discrimination to cord blood banking
- Features a handy, month-by-month format that provides you with the answers you need, as you need them
- Includes valuable links to organizations, agencies, and websites for expecting and new parents
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Planning For a Successful Pregnancy
Preparing to become pregnant and have a baby involves a great deal of planning and knowledge. It isn’t just about having enough money, a stable relationship, or the emotional maturity to handle parenthood. Your body needs to be prepared as well, and a pregnancy planner can help to ensure you are physically ready to provide the best possible home for your baby over the nine months of your pregnancy.
The first thing that will be established is your overall health, including any chronic medical conditions and how they will affect your pregnancy. You will need to take a look at any medications or supplements you currently take to determine their safety during pregnancy. When deciding when to get pregnant, your age is an important consideration. After 35, the risk of miscarriage or birth defects starts to increase. It’s important to understand these risks when planning a pregnancy.
Making sure that you are up to date on your vaccines is an important physical aspect to pregnancy as well. Aside from being a miserable time to be sick, major illness during pregnancy can put your baby at risk. Testing for sexually transmitted diseases is also important to planning a pregnancy. Finally, you will need to decide when to stop using birth control, and whether you should wait a while after going off the pill to attempt conception. A pregnancy planner can help with this.
Before attempting to become pregnant, spend some time going over the pregnancy symptoms week by week, so that you will know what to expect, and what to look for as a sign that you are pregnant. Once your body is in perfect physical condition and ready to conceive, you will be ready to start trying and watching for those first signs of being pregnant!
Daniela O’Neil is a work at home mother of three children. She is a writer as well as a fertility and pregnancy educator who is dedicated to helping women have healthy, happy pregnancies. She lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, and enjoys camping, hiking, and mountain biking in her free time.
To read more on pregnancy planner, when to get pregnant or other information on pregnancy related topics you’re welcome to visit Daniela’s blog on www.tips-for-getting-pregnant.info.
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Comments on Pregnancy Planners – Your Practical Planner
Belle Wong @ 1:00 am
Pregnancy Planners Review by Belle Wong for Your Practical Pregnancy Planners Guide
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Your Practical Pregnancy Planner is a must-have book if you’re expecting a baby, or planning to get pregnant. It’s filled with down-to-earth practical advice on your legal rights, your finances and your lifestyle, set out in a handy month-by-month structure that will help you take care of the important things that need to be done during this exciting period in your life.
Each month covers the legal issues, financial issues and lifestyle issues which are best tackled in that particular month, and ends with a convenient checklist of things that need to be done. The book also includes chapters on labor, delivery, and postpartum care, and parenthood.
Going through this book, there were definitely things that I had waited to do until after each of my babies were born which would have been much easier (and far less stressful) to do if I had tackled them in the timeframe suggested by Sember. There were also things that I hadn’t even thought about during my pregnancies which, naturally, surfaced and demanded time and attention later, when I really didn’t have any time or attention left for anything but taking care of my new little arrival.
From legal issues like preparation of a birth plan and evaluating your pregnancy leave options, to financial matters such as taking care of life insurance and creating a financial cushion, to lifestyle concerns including buying maternity clothes, organizing the nursery and buying a breast pump, Sember covers the many details that can seem overwhelming if left to the last minute or until after your baby is born. First time parents, especially, are usually very surprised by the total lack of time (and sleep) they experience once they’re holding their beautiful babies in their arms.
The Practical Pregnancy Planner is a unique book that will definitely help you get through this exciting but sometimes chaotic time. Ultimately, it’s a book that will get expectant parents organized and more in control now, so they can enjoy their time with their new babies later. Highly recommended.
Kathleen @ 1:51 am
Pregnancy Planners Review by Kathleen for Your Practical Pregnancy Planners Guide
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This book is a terrific guide that all expectant parents need. It includes all sorts of big issues like wills, budgets, insurance, and guardians, but also includes things you would not think of to look up your own, like your rights when it comes to asking for additional medical tests, what to do if you have to take time off from work *during* pregnancy, how to understand hospital policies, life insurance for you and your child, flexible spending accounts, and facts about hiring child care you might not think about (like is your nanny covered if she drives your car?). There’s also stuff that is really practical, like how to save money on baby stuff or computer programs you can use to help you time your labor. It includes tons of resources – books to read for more information and links to web sites. This is a book that all expectant parents really need. It also includes information for preconception and after your baby is born, both in the hospital and after you get home. This indispensable guide is written in a friendly tone and is one of those things you need to make sure you’ve got all the bases covered. This book is your key to peace of mind.
K. Jackson @ 2:44 am
Pregnancy Planners Review by K. Jackson for Your Practical Pregnancy Planners Guide
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This book has provided a wealth of information. It’s not a “what to expect” type book about your body and the developing baby, but rather a planner for finances, insurance coverage, disability leave, wills, your rights and much more. It’s basically the stuff you know you should be thinking about, but are too excited about the baby and what’s going on with your body to stop and plan for the practical stuff. This book breaks down the information into manageable monthly checklists. If you follow her month to month guidance, you will have less to worry about when the baby arrives knowing you have all your ducks in a row.
S. Eldred @ 3:09 am
Pregnancy Planners Review by S. Eldred for Your Practical Pregnancy Planners Guide
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Sember’s easy-to-read book is the perfect choice for a worried first-time mom: You can relax and forget researching every detail of your pregnancy on the internet by instead following Sember’s month-by-month guides. She’s got everything covered: Want to know whether to pack your contacts in your hospital bag? Check out pg. 33. Flying during the third trimester? She’s got tips for that, too.
Best of all, Sember is a retired family law attorney; that, plus her no-nonsense writing style, make me very comfortable recommending this book for first-time moms.
K. Farone @ 3:17 am
Pregnancy Planners Review by K. Farone for Your Practical Pregnancy Planners Guide
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This book was not an easy read, but the information in it was good. Not my Number 1 pick, but one that’s ok to have on the bookshelf.