Pregnancy: Recommended Resources

The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, ISBN: 0452279089, is a must-read for those moms planning to breastfeed. From La Leche League.

Your Pregnancy Week by Week, ISBN: 1555612601. Gives you soemthing to look forward to each week in terms of seeing how you and your baby are developing.

Now, on to the Web resources:

Pregnancy: Starting Points

Adam.com: Discovery Health: Pregnancy
A good source for basic information organized by trimester. Also provides pregnancy information week by week so you can find out what's happening as the fetus develops. Feature articles cover topics such as morning sickness and early miscarriage, and the site provides a nice list of pregnancy FAQs. Labour and delivery and post partum information is also covered. A good general site and starting point for pregnancy information.

Healthy Pregnancy
Information is organized by trimester. Features a pregnancy quiz ("How much do you know about being pregnant?"), a section on preparing for a new baby, childbirth, labour and delivery, breastfeeding information, due date and ovulation calculators, newborn care, postpartum depression, postpartum health, a helpful glossary for all those medical terms that pregnant women will be hearing (includes things like Alpha-fetoprotein screening (AFP), Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS), Episiotomy), and much more. This site is produced by The Office on Women's Health (OWH) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and is also available in Spanish.

Ask Dr. Sears.com: Pregnancy Index
Information is organized by month and also alphabetically in a section called "Pregnancy Concerns: A to Z". Other sections of the site include: Tenth Month: Post Partum; Managing Childbirth Pain; How Your Baby Grows; Creating a Healthy Womb Environment; Prenatal Check-Ups: When and Why. Also covers breastfeeding, bottle feeding, fussy babies, etc.

Because the LJ Digital WebWatch article I noted above includes the following sites, I'm not going to review them here, but don't miss these great ones:
Babycenter
MEDLINEplus
ParentsPlace
Ask NOAH About: Pregnancy

Calendars and Calculators

Medical College of Wisconsin Pregnancy Dates Calculator
Find your estimated due date based on the dates you plug in for last mentrual period, or calculate the date of conception based on the due date you enter. Also, find out how many weeks along you are or will be at any given date throughout your pregnancy.

Parenthood.com Pregnancy Due Date Calendar
Calculate dates based on first day of last menstrual period, likely date of conception, or estimated due date. Provides a pop-up calendar so you can look up dates if

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