Pregnancy week by week

Pregnancy : the early weeks

Finding out you are pregnant

Planning and preparation

Pregnancy : physical and emotional changes

Life in the uterus

Forty weeks of life

Expecting twins

Your baby's well-being

Your physical well-being

Emotional challenges in pregnancy

Becoming a father

You and your partner

Pregnant again

Pregnancy : thinking ahead to birth

In tune with your body for labor

Windows into the uterus

The last few weeks

The experience of birth

What happens in labor

Different kinds of labor

Giving support in labor

Dealing with pain

Toward the medical control of birth

Gentile birth

You and your newborn

The first hours of life

The baby who needs special care

Losing a baby

The first ten days

The challenge of new parenthood

Photographic sequences

A hospital birth

A home birth

A water birth

Useful reading

Useful addresses

Glossary.