The New Mom's Survival Guide: How to Reclaim Your Body, Your Health, Your Sanity, and Your Sex Life After Having a Baby [Paperback]

Jennifer Wider M.D. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 24, 2008

Why can’t I lose the extra weight?

Why am I shedding like my pet golden retriever?

I’m just too tired to have sex— and it hurts. What should I do?

How can I tell the difference between the “baby blues” and a real depression?

Why am I having so many fights with my husband?

At last your baby has arrived, and you’re experiencing all the joys that come with being a new mom. But you may not have bargained on acne and enlarged feet, not to mention constipation, vaginal pain, mood swings, or perhaps one of the more serious conditions that pregnancy can trigger. So what can you do to deal with all these unexpected challenges? In this compassionate, comprehensive guide, Dr. Jennifer Wider, a physician as well as the mother of two small children, delivers up-to-date medical information, candid answers to a host of questions, and expert advice on a range of postpartum issues, including:

Sex and intimacy after pregnancy—physical and mental roadblocks
•Marital stresses and strains
•How to safely lose weight and exercise
•Cracked nipples and other breast-feeding concerns
•When the baby blues are more than just a phase
•Coping with thyroid problems, anemia, diabetes, urinary incontinence, and other conditions that can show up during or after pregnancy

From redefining yourself to taking care of yourself while caring for your baby, The New Mom’s Survival Guide offers such a wealth of practical help that new moms will turn to it again and again.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The New Mom's Survival Guide is practical, upbeat, and medically accurate. It’s like having a wise and experienced personal doctor at your fingertips.”—Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause, and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom

“[A] great refefence source for all those questions you don’t want or have time to ask.”—Library Journal

About the Author

Jennifer Wider is a doctor, author, and radio personality who specializes in women's health issues. She is the medical advisor to the Society for Women's Health Research and hosts a weekly health segment on Sirius Satellite Radio for Cosmopolitan magazine's radio channel. Dr. Wider is on the medical advisory board for Cosmopolitan Magazine and has been frequently published in newspapers, magazines and Web sites across the country. Her first book was The Doctor’s Complete College Girls’ Health Guide: From Sex to Drugs to the Freshman 15. She lives with her physician husband, and their daughter and son, in Fairfield County, Connecticut

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Bantam; 1 edition (June 24, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553805037
• ISBN-13: 978-0553805031
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 8.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #560,867 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally! A good book for MOM!, July 1, 2008

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Elaine S. (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Mom's Survival Guide: How to Reclaim Your Body, Your Health, Your Sanity, and Your Sex Life After Having a Baby (Paperback)

This is an excellent book for new mothers. And it is really entertaining too. Great sections on weight loss after baby, sex after baby and the baby blues. I highly recommend it to new moms and to moms with older children too. I purchased the author's other book for our babysitter and thoroughly enjoy her writing style--funny and informative.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative, direct and very helpful for new moms, October 15, 2008

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This review is from: The New Mom's Survival Guide: How to Reclaim Your Body, Your Health, Your Sanity, and Your Sex Life After Having a Baby (Paperback)

Becoming a mom is a wonderful experience, but it also brings with it many questions. There are so many helpful books out there that attempt to provide helpful information to new moms...how do you choose?

The book, "The New Mom's Survival Guide," by Jennifer Wider, M.D., makes it easy. As Jennifer suggests at one point in the book, "Almost everyone I know has a story like this..." (while speaking about one of many new mom situations)...and she's right. While reading Jennifer's book, I had numerous thoughts of, "Oh, I remember that," and "I went through the same thing." Although I personally had read many books before I had my child, there were still so many questions I needed answers to. While this book does not cover every single possible new mom situation (there are just too many to list), it does a wonderful job of briefly answering many popular new mom questions.

One nice thing about this book's format, is that questions, answers, and information is written as if your own doctor was speaking to you. There's a lot of advice, and explanations are given where it's needed. The book is small enough to carry with you, so you can use it as a guide if you need to look up something. Larger books, besides not the easiest to tote around, sometimes aren't the best source for new mom's because important information isn't as easily found -- it tends to get lost in its many pages. No such problem with this book :).

We highly recommend "The New Mom's Survival Guide" -- the book is direct and very useful for new moms. Sure you can pick up the phone and call your doctor for every little question...or, you can just pick up this book. You're sure to refer to it many times.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "Must" Guide for Mothers..., October 6, 2008

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A. Harland - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Mom's Survival Guide: How to Reclaim Your Body, Your Health, Your Sanity, and Your Sex Life After Having a Baby (Paperback)

As a first time mother, I struggled to find a book that encompassed all the issues I was facing post-pregnancy. I stumbled upon Dr. Wider's book and how fortuitous that turned out to be. Clearly delineated and articulated, Wider's book helps new moms like myself understand that they're not going crazy and facing issues that ultimately have solutions. I've recommended this book to all the moms in my playgroup. I only wish I'd found it sooner!