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During our first pregnancy my wife, Laurie, established a policy that I was permitted to worry about only one thing per day. However, no restriction was placed on how much I could worry about each issue. This might seem a trivial point but we have noticed that most of our friends who are pregnant now and those who have been recently pregnant worry about the health and welfare of their future child. There was not a single day from the pre-planning of the pregnancy to the first breath that our child, Haylee Erin, took in the delivery room that Laurie and I were not reading books and asking questions to make sure we gave our baby the best chance for a happy and healthy future. The quest for answers to our myriad of questions led to this book. It is a compilation of those question and answers that Laurie and I posed to our health care professionals. To be able to access the information, we have listed the subjects covered in alphabetical order. These subjects are options that are available to you whether or not your health care professional offers them to you or not. Although, it might not be necessary for every pregnant mother to have access to all of the latest technology, we, like most expectant parents, wanted to be aware of the technology so that we could choose the direction that would give our child the best chance at a healthy future. The question and answers should not be taken to represent all the questions that could or should be asked. The answers do not represent all the possible answers, only those given to us by our health care professionals. It merely is a list of questions and answers that made up our evolution to first time parenting. We sought and continue to encourage input from other parents and expectant parents and think this as an ongoing project in search of questions and answers. We hope this layout of our thought process will help encourage and inspire other parents to ask what is on their mind. We are not born knowing how to be parents and we must educate ourselves and hope the answers we find are the right ones. I end with a quote that my father, Paul Wexler, M.D. (an OB/GYN doctor) and my mother, Hilde Wexler (a former hospital administrator) impressed upon my wife and me:
"Never be afraid to ask your health care professional questions that concern you.
We in the healthcare field can only answer the questions you ask, not the
questions you are thinking about."
Keith & Laurie Wexler
