Product Description

Finally! A well designed, well researched, easy-to-use organizer for every stage of pregnancy. Forget ducks and bunny rabbits - this clean, sophisticated organizer is designed for modern parents-to-be.

An essential addition to your pregnancy library, this handy tool simplifies the process of preparing for a baby. Tabs provide quick access to checklists, forms, and questionnaires that help manage the details of pregnancy and baby's first weeks at home.

This journal- sized organizer fits perfectly in a handbag, making it the ideal companion for the many travels between night-stand, desk, and practitioner's office. With space to answer questions about pregnancy and baby's birth, 40 weeks+ ultimately becomes a record of the amazing journey into parenthood!

The contents include: * Detailed timeline and pregnancy calendar * Interview questions for obstetricians, midwives, pediatricians, nannies, and day care centers * Questions to formulate a birth plan * Prenatal check-up pages * Practical baby shopping list for parents * Gift tracker * Tips on saving time around the house * Coach's preparations and contact lists * Feeding and diapering records * Helpful resources * Pocket for paperwork or keepsakes * and much more

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5526 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-01
• Released on: 2006-11-06
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 138 pages

Five Star Reviews, November 2006
The planner is so thoughtfully organized you'll wonder just who the panel of experts is who created the book...

From the Publisher
This edition of 40 weeks+ : the essential pregnancy organizer includes a convenient pocket for paperwork.

From the Author
Excerpted from 40 Weeks +: The Essential Pregnancy Organizer by Dani Rasmussen; Antoinette Perez. Copyright © 2006. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. You lay the foundation for a healthy baby well before your child is born, and it's never too early to start planning. Good prenatal care and solid organization are both essential to your baby's well being. The next few months will be filled with wonder and joy, adjustments and changes, and they will also bring plenty of details and decisions to manage. Many of them relate directly to health. First, investigate the scope of your insurance coverage using questions for your health insurance provider on page 28. Health insurance polices vary widely and you need to learn exactly what financial obligations to expect during your entire pregnancy and delivery. Next, think about whether you'd like an obstetrician (OB), a midwife, or a combination of the two to advise and care for you during pregnancy, childbirth, and the weeks following delivery. Once you've decided which path to take, use the prenatal practitioner referral forms on page 29 to record referrals from friends and family. Use the obstetrician interview questions on pages 30-32 and/or the midwife interview questions on pages 33-35 to conduct interviews. Once you start visiting your practitioner, use the prenatal check-ups forms beginning on page 36 to record the details.

Customer Reviews

Decent, not great
I consider myself to be a fairly organized and detail-oriented individual; however, I found this guide to be more overwhelming than helpful. It contains extremely detailed and lengthy interviews to conduct with everyone from your OB to a potential nanny or babysitter. There are lists upon lists of items to register for and/or purchase. It is just more information than I personally need. If you want to control every last detail of your entire pregnancy and birth, I'm sure this organizer will help you feel like you are doing that, but be careful that you don't set yourself up for disappointment. Everything rarely goes exactly as planned and being a little more flexible and a little less organized might be a good thing.

Loved this organizer!
I kept track of everything in this organizer, from OB appointments (including all information on what was covered in the appointment) to important dates on the calendar to contractions to diaper checks to gift lists to items to purchase. It had handy spots to put my ultrasound printouts and a pocket in back for keepsake documents. I am a first time mother and I'm still using it often with the baby over a month old now.

My OB saw it and loved it - she said it's the best she's seen! I'd recommend this for any first-timer.

Great Organizer
This is a great organizer. It contains a lot of information. This helps me stay organized with things I have to do like appointments, calling my insurance company, etc. Also, a great check list month by month, its really reminded me to do somethings I intended to do and gave me ideas aboutt hings I hadn't thought of at all. An earlier reviewer complained that there was too much information, just don't use the pages you don't want to use. It really is that simple.

This isn't a journal, its an organizer so don't expect lots of pages to write about your feelings and dreams for baby.