珍妮•福克纳（Jeanne Faulkner）在女性健康领域工作有30年，一开始是在医生诊所、自由诊所和医学教室工作，后来成为注册护士，尤其擅长妇产科、分娩和新生儿护理。2002年，珍妮开始了新闻难做，现在是Ask the Labor Nurse for FitPregnancy.com的专栏作者。她的撰稿涉及健康、医学、食物、家庭教养、生活方式等问题，在Fit Pregnancy, Pregnancy, Shape, Better Homes & Gardens, the Huffington Post 和Oregonian newspapers 等出版物上刊登。
目录：
Foreword
Introduction
Section One: Being Pregnant
Chapter One
• What do you do now that you’re pregnant?
• How to have a well pregnancy, instead of a fear-based pregnancy
• Is your pregnancy no risk, low risk, moderate risk, or high risk?
• How soon do you need to see a midwife or doctor?
• Who should you tell that you’re pregnant, and when?
• How to pick your health care provider.
• Why choosing a midwife makes sense
• How to pick where you’ll have your baby (home, birth center, or hospital)
• What does your due date really mean?
Chapter two – Life as a pregnant woman
• What should you eat?
• How to deal with feeling like crap
• How soon will you look pregnant instead of just fluffy?
• What about sex?
Chapter three – Common medical bumps in the road
• Spotting, discharge, miscarriage, and ectopic pregnancy
• Bacterial vaginosis
Chapter four – Prenatal care 101
• What are all those prenatal tests for, and do you really have to have them?
• What About Ultrasounds?
• The pros and cons of genetic testing
• Just how tough is your baby? Dealing with fears about exposure to chemicals, alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, and other toxins
• Getting a prenatal education—before and beyond what the hospital teaches
• How to determine whether you want your birth to be all natural, all medical, or somewhere in between
• How your pregnancy determines your birth plan
Section Two: The End Game—The Last Weeks of Pregnancy
• How to deal with curve balls:
o Your doctor says your baby is too big and wants to schedule an induction or C-section—what now?
o Your ultrasound shows you have too much/too little amniotic fluid—what now?
o You’ve tested positive for group beta strep—what now?
o You’re dilating early or not dialing at all—what now?
o Your midwife says you need an obstetrician—a few reasons why you might “risk out” for low-risk/low-intervention care
• You feel heavy, cranky, crampy, and yucky—should you ask for an induction?
• How to get the show on the road—what works and what doesn’t for getting labor started naturally
• Nonstress tests, biophysical profiles, and other late-pregnancy tests you may receive
• You’re leaking fluid—is it amniotic or pee?
• You lost your mucous plug or see a little bleeding—are you going into labor?
• You know the end is in sight and all of a sudden you’re freaking out—what’s going on?
• Birth plans—pros, cons, reality checks
• You want a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC)—how can you have one, and what are the risks?
• Who’s on your labor team—and how to keep your labor room drama free
• How to keep from losing your mind while you wait for labor to start
• You’re overdue (or are you?)—what should you do?
Section Three: The Big Event—Labor and Birth
• Who works on the maternity unit—from nurses to lab techs—all the people who might take care of you and your baby
• If you have a midwife, a nurse, a partner, and a labor support team, do you need a doula?
• How to tell when you’re really, truly, honest-to-god in labor
• Hygiene and grooming for labor—what matters, what totally doesn’t
• The biggest difference between your first and second labors (or third, or fourth . . . )
• How bad is labor, anyway?
• Pain management 101—everything from deep breaths to epidurals, and how to take it one step at a time
• Epidural 101—how it works, who puts it in, why it takes a while, and why you can’t custom-order it.
• Epidural FAQ
• Can you eat in labor? It depends on who you ask and where you deliver
• What’s Pitocin really like?
• Episiotomies, shaving, enemas, and other urban myths
• The best labor and birth positions
• Water management—what to do if your water bag breaks in public, and what to expect when it breaks during labor
• Meconium—what does it mean when sh** happens?
• The big push—how to do it if you don’t have an urge and how to avoid pushing too hard
• Vacuums, forceps, and other tools of the trade
• Lacerations 101 (what it means if you tear down there)
• You’re scheduled for a C-section—what should you expect?
• Twins, breech—can you still have a vaginal birth?
• Body fluids, blood, and guts—all the gross stuff that happens during labor and why you shouldn’t worry about it
• How to decide what tests and shots your baby will get in the delivery room or nursery
• When your baby needs intensive care
• When a baby dies—it’s rare, but it happens
• When a mother dies—even more rare, but still . . . it happens; what are the causes, and how can you make sure it doesn’t happen to you.
Section Four: The Postpartum Period
• What if labor and birth weren’t what you expected and planned? How to reconcile with your experience
• Healing, bleeding, leaking, and cramps—what’s normal, what’s not?
• How to take care of your abdominal incision
• Will you ever be normal down there?
• What you can do the first week, second week, first month, second month
• A word about day three
• Sleep, sleep deprivation, and how to keep from losing your mind
• How to do anything now that you have a newborn—including taking a shower, going to the store, having an adult conversation.
• Now that everything’s different, will life ever be normal again?
• The second baby—how to add another kid to your life
• How much stuff do you need?
Section Five: Now that you’ve got one—how will you feed it?
• Breast versus bottle—battle lines and peace treaties
• How to get the help you need to breastfeed well
• Cracked, sore nipples, engorgement, and great tricks to make your breasts feel better
• Pumping, dumping, storing, and freezing
• Bottle feeding—judgment-free
• How long should you breastfeed?
• How to work and breastfeed
• Pregnancy and parenting for women with history (getting real about custody, child welfare, drug addiction, domestic violence, homelessness)
Conclusion
Special Circumstances Appendix 1: Women with History
Special Circumstances Appendix 2: When a Baby Dies