High-Risk-Pregnancy Books

Professionals working with pregnant women who don't follow the guidelines of this book aren't worth a second visit! Dr. Robert Bradley, of The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth(R) fame, heartily endorsed Gail Sforza and Dr. Tom Brewer's work. If you want a "Blue Ribbon Baby" then you simply MUST have this book - especially if you're expecting TWINS or more. You CAN have full-term, normal-weight twins - but you NEED the dietary information contained in this book! I believe the Brewers'work will, one day, be heralded as the "long-lost" link to eradicating all of the far-too-common complications of pregnancy (toxemia, HELLP, PROM, low birth weight, premature birth, among others). I, myself, gave birth to two singleton Blue Ribbon Babies while following the dietary guidelines of The Brewer Medical Diet. If you're pregnant, don't wait another day!

My parents wrote this and other books in the 60's and 70's based on my father's (Dr. Thomas H. Brewer) experience as an OB/GYN and medical researcher on "pre-eclampsia", HELLP syndrome, IUGR, etc. He calls this condition Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy (MTLP). It is DEFINITELY avoidable!! Proper intake of calories, especially protein, and essential vitamins through regular food is the KEY. My parents now counsel women over the phone and you can look them up on the Internet. Please educate yourselves with this influential and accurate preventative guide to a healthy pregnancy.

What your OB/GYN may not know!

My parents wrote this and other books in the 60's and 70's based on my father's (Dr. Thomas H. Brewer, Tulane University School of Medicine '51) experience as an OB/GYN and medical researcher on pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, HELLP syndrome, PIH, IUGR, etc.

He terms this condition Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy (MTLP). In his clinic in one of the poorest counties in California, Dr. Brewer eliminated to 0% the incidence of eclampsia. His only "medicine" was nutritional counseling; asking what women were eating and instructing them to eat more high quality foods that they could afford.

Eggs and milk are cheap sources of whole proteins. If you don't eat animal products, you must make sure you are getting all you amino acids in the SAME meal or you won't have them in your bloodstream at the same time...that's the only way for a baby to get food, the mother's blood circulation. The only way for nutrients/proteins to get into your blood and stay there (for accessibility by the baby), is if you eat them at every meal!

These disorders of pregnancy are DEFINITELY avoidable!! Proper intake of calories, especially protein, and essential vitamins through regular food is the KEY. No special diets are required as long as enough whole proteins, water, salt, vitamins, and other essential nutrients are ingested in larger and larger quantities as the pregnancy progresses. A baby is made of the food the mother eats, and growth requires proteins...eat high quality food in increasing amounts and your baby grows to a big, healthy size.

Dr. Brewer now counsels women over the phone and you can look him up on the Internet. Please educate yourself and every pregnant woman you know with this influential and accurate preventative guide to a healthy pregnancy.

I have followed Dr. Brewer's diet through 4 pregnancies. It works. As a mother and a midwife I assure you, it works. Adequate protein, salt and calorie intake WILL prevent toxemia and other pregnancy illnesses. Please, do your baby a favor and read this book.

Hey Baldrick_1...Are you a doctor? If not you shouldn't claim something you don't know about. I wished I had received better pre-natal care when it came to my having to deliver my daughter 14 weeks early. Not 1 doctor I had to see about my pre-eclampsia asked about my diet nor inquired if I had any questions regarding it. I've read all the claims of Dr. Brewer and it makes perfect sense that nutrition can play a factor. I couldn't hold food down for most of my pregnancy and there is no question in my mind that lack of nutrition is what caused my baby and I to become ill. I wished I had this information a few months ago...maybe my baby would be alive today.

Follow up: I had my son back in August of '06 and I followed this diet thruout most of my pregnancy. I still had problems with HELLP syndrome, but it was delayed and I was able to safely bring my son into the world at 35 weeks. He came home with me and is a thriving brilliant little boy. I still highly recommend following this diet as I believe it delayed the inevitable. The odds were against my son because at 20 weeks the same thing happened as did with my first born, who unfortunately passed away a month after she was born. The key is staying on this diet strictly. I admit the last several weeks of the pregnancy I didn't keep it up to the standards I should've (I wasn't in complete control of preparing meals at that point due to bed rest), and my son stopped growing at the pace he was on.(I had weekly sonograms to monitor his growth) The moment I discovered this I immediately arranged better nutrition. My son started to grow again, but I had become too ill at 35 + weeks to continue the pregnancy. I didn't have pre-eclampsia because no protein was detected, but my blood pressure was rising too high and HELLP syndrome had kicked in. My final thoughts... if prone to pre-eclampsia and hellp syndrome, follow this diet. If the odds are against you, it may not stop you having to give birth too soon, but it could help your baby to be born at a safer gestational age. If your not prone to problems do it anyways. Its nutritionally sound and probably the best nourishment guide for you and your baby.

If you have a parent who is bed ridden the is a must have book if there are young children in the home. There are very few resources out there to help tell a child about a bed-ridden mommy. This book is a great help.

If you've ever wondered how to deal with a child who needs to understand the reality of an at home -in- bed mom or dad, then consider this a must read for that child along with the parent who cares enough to help that child
grow and understand the reality of the situation. I know it helped my daughter and myself when we needed it most.
Simple and to the point, a great book with a great message!! Kudos to the educator who knows how to communicate with the chilld. Please write more!

A wonderful children's book!
Beautifully illustrated, lovingly told, Mommy Has to Stay in Bed offers comfort to a child facing the issue of a parent confined to bed rest.
Through colorful images, and in terms a young child can understand, this book will help a child cope with a parent's illness. Sensitively written from the viewpoint of the child, I found the book to be full of terrific ideas to help the young reader bond with their parent during a difficult time.
Mommy Has to Stay in Bed is a thoughtful gift for any mother facing a long illness or recuperation. I loved this book and would highly recommend!!

I found this to be a wonderful book for toddlers faced with the trauma of having a parent on bed rest (whether it's due to pregnancy, an illness or accident). I ordered it on Amazon when I was up all night with insomnia from worry about my 2-year old daughter's difficult time dealing with my long-term (26 week) complete pregnancy bed rest. The day we received it, she asked me to read it to her five times. Our 2 year old related to the tender way the book explains--in a toddler's voice--how a child feels when her Mom is ordered to stay in bed. I couldn't agree more with the quote on the back of the book, "This delightful and poignant book fills a gap in children's literature....Beautiful illustrations and lifting verse will make this a favorite among children and give parents ideas for creative and enjoyable activities to be shared between Mother and Child. Mothers and children in this [bed rest] situation will praise and thank Annette Rivlin-Gutman for addressing their need so eloquently."

Mommy Has To Stay In Bed is a small, simple softcover picturebook written by a mother who personally experienced the dilemma of having to explain being on bed rest during her pregnancy to her then 1 1/2 year old daughter. The simple rhyme and the warm color illustrations complement one another perfectly in this superb book for helping little ones understand a difficult time in a parent's life. "Sometimes I get so angry. / I just want to shout, / 'I don't like having Mom in bed / day in and day out.' // Mommy tells me to scream, / hit a pillow, have a cry. / If I'm angry, she understands / and accepts the reasons why."

My wife, who was on bed rest for 10 weeks due to pre-mature labor, felt this book really helped her cope. The chapters that I've read also helped me.

One issue that confused me though:
The authors consider 40 weeks to be full term. Others consider it to be 37 weeks.

Upon hearing you're pregnant, most people will only have images of perfect babies. When hearing something is going wrong with your pregnancy, most people have no idea what to expect.
When I heared I was going to have my baby within half an hour, at 26 weeks of pregnancy... I had no idea what was laying ahead of me.
This book prepares you on what to expect when you have a high-risk pregnancy and takes you trough the 24 hours after delivery, your preemies growth and maturation, the neonatal unit, bringing your baby home and later-life development. There is also a part on babies with special needs and a part about when things go wrong.
From the many lonely hours I could not be with my baby, I spent many reading this book. The stories of other parents helped me survivng the nicu and the many charts and statistics helped me to get an image on what to expect.

Thank you very much for this book.

This is THE book I wished I'd known about in advance when we developed problems later in my pregnancy. I actually think anyone expecting a baby where there is a possibility of it becoming a high-risk pregnancy (and face it, that could be any of us, right?) should read this book so that you can be prepared to be the best possible advocate for yourself and your child in the NICU and during the transition out. It will also help you understand the complexities of what goes on in the NICU so you can work well with the staff caring for your infant.

My son was born prematurely June 10, 2004. My 30 week ultrasound came back showing that my ambionic fluid was low and my baby only weighed 2 lbs. 7 ounces. The next day I was sent by my OB/GYN to meet with a perinatologist. Within 15 minutes of meeting the specialist, I was told my baby would be born witihin 24 to 48 hours and was admitted to the hospital 30 minutes later. My son was born via emergency csection 27 hours later. I was 31 weeks into my pregancy. He will spend 9 weeks in neonatal ICU before he can come home. This so far, has been the hardest and most heartbreaking part of my entire pregnancy.

I am 30 years old and was diagnosed with chronic high blood pressure two years ago. This book is a step by step account of what happened to me. I developed pregnancy induced hypertension which turned into preeclampsia. None of my doctors (family practicioner or OB/GYN) told me how dangerous and high risk my pregnancy would be. I wish I knew then what this book has taught me now, it has been a real eyeopener and lifesaver.

A very helpful book for reading during your high-risk pregnancy and when your baby is in the NICU. I did think that the anecdotes about women's experiences with terbutaline and magnesium sulfate were unnecessarily alarming. This book complemented Linden's Essential Guide for Parnets of Premature Babies nicely.

This is a GREAT BOOK for RNC review. I bought it to review to take the exam, and would read it during my night shifts. It was such a great book....it disappeared on day after I left it at work!

This book is terrific for learning how to deal with high risk situations involving obstetrics. AWHONN is a state of the art nursing association and this book is a tremendous help to those who want to further their knowledge on high risk maternity care. I would recommend anyone who is a Labor & Delivery nurse or in the obstetric field to read it.

The next edition of this book is due out 6/2002 with a publication date of 2003. There are 2 new chapters including one on complimentary and alternative therapies.
The credentials for Judith Smith Harmon are listed incorrectly and should be: MS, RN, C-FNP.

Outstanding quick reference for those involved with prenatal patients and deliveries. Covers the major problems in high risk pregnancies and their management. Students and practitioners will find this book helpful in clinical practice.

this protocol book helps one remember very quickly a good management strategy for more common as well as rare complications of pregnancies; especially in the community & non medical center setting.

This is a neat concise text which covers almost any problem that you're likely to run into while on an Obstetrical service. The text is clearly divided into problems which facilitate "a fast look-up". Each subject is discussed with critial issues covered, such as statistics, decision trees, and the presence or absence of outcome based protocols. While there are limitations regarding the accuracy of the recommendations, given the publication date, this remains a helpful tool for learning basic obstetrical practice.

High-Risk Pregnancy and Foetal Diagnosis: Your Journey by professional family therapy, grief, and women's health counselor Stephanie Azri is a practical guide written especially for women who must cope with medical diagnoses that put them in a high-risk category, or indicate abnormalities in their unborn. High-Risk Pregnancy and Foetal Diagnosis outlines in plain terms the choices expectant mothers and fathers have with regard to screening tests and their risks, cases where the unborn is diagnosed with a potentially fatal disorder, labor and delivery versus means of terminating high-risk pregnancies or pregnancies with a severe malformation, the options for placing a child with Down's syndrome or other severe but nonlethal genetic flaws if the family feels unable to give proper care, and much more. Individual personal written testimonies put the reader in touch with the emotions and difficult choices that others who may have been in the same position have had to make.

Great book in great condition but took 3 weeks to get it.
I would use this vendor again though.

Very informative. Exactly what I needed for perinatal teaching. Covers many aspects of high risk pregnancies and deliveries.

I first read from this book, when I need updated information for a case with thrombocytopenia associated with pregnancy. I was amazed by the way how the authors characterized any medical field implied in pregnancy management. Therefore I decided to buy it, and now I'm sure that is a valuable asset for my personal library. Beside the specific aspects of medical complications (like cardiovascular, hematological, endocrinological or infectious diseases) I was able to find also systematized, new information about management of the high risk pregnancy, medical emergencies, substance abuse or clinical genetics. It is a very useful book either for anyone who wants to improve his knowledge with new information about medical aspects of pregnancy but also for obstetricians, even if they've already got the previous editions, because they could raise theirs practice to higher levels.