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"Before Your Pregnancy is a breakthrough book for prospective parents--a completely detailed resource that prepares mothers and fathers-to-be to conceive the healthiest baby possible, to make pregnancy and delivery easier, and to foster the mental and physical well-being of their infant child. Created by two experienced health-care professionals, this unique handbook not only discusses virtually every aspect of preconception that affects a healthy baby, it tells you how to handle each one. The authors spell out what each parent needs to do, starting at least ninety days before conception (the minimum time needed for sperm to mature). The hundreds of topics covered--many for the first time in any book--include - Men's Health: Building healthy sperm before conception (nutrition, fitness, and medical influences) - Women's Health: Gynecologic well-being, preexisting medical conditions, genetic legacy, boosting fertility, becoming a mother at an older age - Becoming an Informed Patient: Choosing a doctor, what a complete preconception exam includes, important questions and how to ask them, insurance coverage - Nutrition: Improving the health of future generations, preconception meal makeovers, ethnic Food Guide Pyramids, avoiding food-borne illnesses, vitamin and mineral facts, pre-pregnancy body weight - Fitness: Preconception fitness evaluation and exercise prescription, safety tips and motivational anecdotes, preconception strength and flexibility workout - Medications/Herbs: Baby-friendly ones and ones to avoid - Personal Readiness: Emotional, financial, and environmental issues - Romancing the Egg: Tips for success when ready to "start trying" "Plus:Separate questionnaires for the prospective parents to fill out in preparation for their preconception medical visit.

In the field of domestic violence, community collaboration hasbeen an essential part of both prevention and intervention. However, there have been vast differences in perspective, methodology, understanding, interpretations, and concerns among the variouspartners. This volume examines models of collaboration betweenpersonnel in social service agencies, women's centers, domesticviolence programs, medical and mental health settings, and lawenforcement. Techniques are detailed that allow knowledge aboutdomestic violence and primary prevention to be integrated into acommunity response by all those involved.Further, the authors describe in detail how the possibilities forcommunities to respond to domestic violence victims is based on howthese various groups perceive the victim; how an individual agencypersonally responds and how it is possible to provide safety for womenin their own homes and communities."Stopping Domestic Violence: How a Community Can Prevent SpousalAbuse" is an excellent resource for educators, social workers, public health professionals, clinicians, medical and mental healthprofessionals, and law enforcement personnel.