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What to Expect: Eating Well When You're Expecting by [Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel]

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Announcing Eating Well When You're Expecting, providing moms-to-be with a realistic approach to navigating healthily and deliciously through the nine months of pregnancy—at home, in the office, over the holidays, in restaurants. Thorough chapters are devoted to nutrition, weight gain, food safety, the postpartum diet, and how to eat when trying to conceive again. And, very exciting, the book comes with 150 contemporary, tasty, and healthy recipes that feed mom and baby well, take little time to prepare, and are gentle on queasy tummies.

A departure from its predecessor, What to Eat When You’re Expecting, which has 976,000 copies in print, Eating Well loses the whole-wheatier-than-thou attitude, and comes with a light, reader-friendly tone while delivering the most up-to-date information. At the heart of the book are hundreds of pressing questions every mother-to-be has: Is it true I shouldn’t eat any food cooked with alcohol? Will the caffeine in coffee cross into my baby’s bloodstream? Help!—I’m entering my second trimester, and I’m losing weight, not gaining. Is all sushi off limits? How do I get enough calcium if I’m lactose intolerant? I keep dreaming about a hot fudge sundae—can I indulge? Guess what: the answer is yes.

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For many pregnant women, eating healthy during pregnancy is a catch-22: "The reason you want to eat healthy is because you're pregnant—and the reason you're having a hard time eating healthy is also because you're pregnant," the authors explain. Morning sickness, heartburn, constipation... the list of food-related problems pregnant women can encounter goes on and on. Murkoff (What to Expect When You're Expecting) and coauthor Mazel address these difficulties in a practical manner, with numerous tried-and-true suggestions that will certainly afford some relief for the majority. The "Pregnancy Diet Daily Dozen" lists foods that provide all the vitamins, minerals and nutrients mother and child need, followed by recipes that facilitate consumption of the daily dozen. Sidebars examine "wisdom of the ages" (myths and old wives' tales that may or may not hold water), and a survey will help expectant mothers evaluate their eating habits and monitor their weight gain. The authors address concerns of pregnant women who are lactose intolerant or vegans, advise on what to order in a restaurant, list which foods are strictly off-limits and explain how to read food labels. The book continues through the postpartum period and breastfeeding, making it an excellent resource for new moms and moms-to-be. (June)
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How to navigate healthily and tastily from conception through delivery and beyond―at home or at the office, in restaurants or over the holidays, when you’re short on time or money, and when you’re too queasy to eat. How to satisfy your taste buds and your baby’s nutritional requirements at every meal (and in between). How to keep your weight gain on target, ease pregnancy symptoms, gratify your inner gourmet, and nourish yourself pre-pregnancy and postpartum.

Plus the latest lowdown on low carbs, vegetarian diets, caffeine, supplements, food safety, and more.

Includes 175 delicious, easy-to-prepare, and nutrition-packed recipes, developed especially for mom-to-be and her baby (but yummy enough to satisfy the whole family).

Expect to eat well!

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003L7827C
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Workman Publishing Company; 1st edition (May 2, 2005)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 2, 2005
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4679 KB
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Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 480 pages

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Heidi Murkoff
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Heidi Murkoff is the author of the What to Expect®; series and author of Eating Well When You're Expecting, The What to Expect Pregnancy Journal & Organizer, What to Expect the First Year, The What to Expect Baby-Sitter's Handbook, and the What to Expect Kids series from HarperCollins. Her interactive website is www.whattoexpect.com, and she lives with her family in Los Angeles, California.
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Sharon Mazel
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Sharon Mazel is a pregnancy and parenting expert, author, parenting coach, content creator, and speaker. Sharon is the author of Bite-Sized Parenting: Your Baby's First Year and was the listed co-author of the New York Times bestselling What To Expect When You're Expecting (4/5e), What To Expect The First Year (2/3e), What To Expect The Second Year, What To Expect Before You're Expecting (1/2e), What To Expect The Toddler Years (2e), What To Expect: Eating Well When You're Expecting (1e), What To Expect Pregnancy Journal and Organizer, and What To Expect Babysitter's Handbook. Sharon distills her over two decades of experience into her popular online courses and resources that help new parents feel more confident as they navigate their new roles as moms and dads (www.sharonmazel.com). She also shares daily bite-sized pregnancy and parenting tips on Instagram (@sharonmazel) with her over 240,000 followers.
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Anna B.

Great Book for the Difficult Pregnant Appetite

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2015

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This book goes into much greater detail than the general What to Expect book on all things related to diet and food. While those sections are helpful, what I really wanted this book for was the recipes. Especially during the first trimester, when I had such a hard time eating and food aversions to almost everything, I was desperate for ideas or recipes that would make food more palatable. In that first trimester, I lived on the smoothie and muffin recipes in this book, as well as many of the simple snack and small meal suggestions. Since then, I use the recipes in this book frequently, both for meals and snacks. It has great suggestions on ways to add extra nutrition to a meal or snack (flaxseed can go in almost anything!), and nutrient-packed versions of familiar favorites.

Also, this book has a better tone than Murkoff's What to Expect - not quite as quippy and cutesy. More down-to-earth and information-based.

I give this book 4 stars instead of 5 because I wish there were more recipes. I haven't taken the time to read ALL the other information, but I use the recipes regularly.

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Amanda

Great Nutrition Advise at any time in life

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 20, 2009

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I have had terrible trouble losing the weight I gained with my first son, and I worry about my own health, and the health of a new baby, if I started a new pregnancy at the weight I am at now. We would like to start trying again in the next year or two, so we discussed the issue with my doctor and her advice was to start treating your body now like you would if you were pregnant. So I bought this book.

I almost bought it's predicessor, but the description of this version's reduction in the "wheatier than thou" approach sold me. I have a couple of the other "What to do books" and was aware that I would skim past a lot of the dietary advice as not being realistic to my lifestyle - but this book is. Its full of down-to-the-roots, real life knowledge on what nutrition really is, why you are supposed to eat what they say you should, and real-world decision making for trying to be healthy one day at a time.

It goes into fantastic detail on the Daily Dozen concept, and the recipies that I have tried so far are easy and tasty, with lots of room for personalization and variety. But it's not just a diet-or a recipe book. It's a way to trully think about everything you eat and why you do or don't need it. Whether I lose the weight or not, whether we have another child or not, I've gained a lot of confidence and knowledge about my habits from this book and I am very pleased with it.

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leslie

Excellent basic nutrition guide w/ GREAT recipes!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 12, 2006

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I took this book out of the library, but decided to buy it because I wanted to own the recipes. There is a great variety of recipes for all meals of the day and snacks. Most of the recipes are lower fat and sugar and higher fiber and protein versions of your favs. They don't elimate the bad things, but they do limit it and work in more whole grains and veggies then I normally do in my cooking.

As for the other reviewers comment about the grapes on page 82 - I can see how she got confused, but they actually say: "...;a slice of whole wheat bread, an ounce of cheddar cheese, and a half cup of grapes equals 200 calories." They are talking about how to get the most variety of vitamins in your snacks.

Many who buy this book may find the info rather simplistic, which it is. Eat a variety of highly nutritious foods. But, buy it for the recipes.

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Jeri

Take the guess work out of your diet while pregnant

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 17, 2016

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I ordered this book while anxiously awaiting my first little bundle of joy. Like many new mommies I worried about every little thing including what I should and should not eat. This book has it all. Advising what to avoid, offering recipes and even spelling out whole meal plans in detail. It is incredibly informative when it comes to your diet while pregnant. I took away a lot of the recipes and still continue to use them for the last couple of years now. This is basically a nice guide for eating healthy without starving yourself and can continue to be used even after your little one comes along. I'm now expecting #2 and I just pulled this book out again to refresh and remind myself all the wonderful things I can EAT with fuss free meal planning. I definitely recommend!

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Knittymama4

Borrow it first

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2010

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With my first pregnancy I was sick on the couch from the 2nd month through the 7th and then part of the 9th. I could eat and actually had cravings starting the 4th month or so and, feeling like I was starving, I ate everything in sight. Needless to say I gained too much weight. for my height and activity level [normally] an ideal weight is 110-120; I weighed in [pre-pregnancy: 130 and day I delivered: 171 lbs]; My belly looked like i had been attacked by a wild animal and literally started ripping. So the second time around I really wanted to have this book to help me stay on track with weight gain etc. since now i'm overweight for my height etc. It worked the first month because morning sickness hadn't set in yet. the 2nd-4th months though I had to have Zofran just so that I could keep water and crackers down and even then I had to avoid my omega 3s and all fish products like the plague.

Reading through the plan I didn't understand it. I'm used to my plan on mypyramid.gov which was much clearer and strict [which for me is important otherwise I still over eat]. If you can understand the gibberish that is the daily plan in this book then i hope it works for you. I had to read and reread over 5 times before it started to somewhat make sense. I'm going to give it another try because there are some things that take me forever to learn and others i pick up right away so maybe it's just me. Honestly this series isn't my favorite to begin with; but I stick with it because the website is useful and it honestly answered more questions than my Dr. who always seems to have somewhere better to be [yep going to switch next time]. The other good thing about it though [and why I gave it 3 stars] is that it goes through how much weight to gain for a healthy pregnancy whether you're a "twig" to start out with or not and WHY [another topic my Dr. avoids].I recommend borrowing this from your local library or a friend before buying it just to see if you can decifer it.

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Melissa

It also seems like a lot of pages to sum up the simple ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 27, 2016

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I bought this along with the traditional What To Expect book and, after a precursary glance, found that I had no actual interest in reading this book. I don't know why, but it just didn't engage me. It also seems like a lot of pages to sum up the simple premise of "eat well from all the food groups".

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Mia

Lovely!

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on December 18, 2016

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Eating well while you're expecting is a very important topic and we need to be informed about what nutrients we need while pregnant. The book explains a lot and always in a very entertaining way. The recipes are very good - even for vegetarians!

Aleshia

... for other thing I didn't think it was that great.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 24, 2016

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I read some of this book and found it helpful for some thing but for other thing I didn't think it was that great.

Emily

Good read!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 8, 2021

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Great book!