Comforting and intimate, this "girlfriend" guide to getting pregnant gets to the heart of all the emotional issues around having children--biological pressure, in-law pressures, greater social pressures--to support women who are considering getting pregnant.Trying to get pregnant is enough to make any woman impatient. The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant is a complete guide to the medical, psychological, social, and sexual aspects of getting pregnant, told in a funny, compassionate way, like talking to a good friend who's been through it all. And in fact, Dr. Jean Twenge has been through it all--the mother of three young children, she started researching fertility when trying to conceive for the first time. A renowned sociologist and professor at San Diego State University, Dr. Twenge brought her research background to the huge amount of information--sometimes contradictory, frequently alarmist, and often discouraging-- that she encountered online, from family and friends, and in books, and decided to go into the latest studies to find out the real story. The good news is: There is a lot less to worry about than you've been led to believe. Dr. Twenge gets to the heart of the emotional issues around getting pregnant, including how to prepare mentally and physically when thinking about conceiving; how to talk about it with family, friends, and your partner; and how to handle the great sadness of a miscarriage. Also covered is how to know when you're ovulating, when to have sex, timing your pregnancy, maximizing your chances of getting pregnant, how to tilt the odds toward having a boy or a girl, and the best prenatal diet. Trying to conceive often involves an enormous amount of emotion, from anxiety and disappointment to hope and joy. With comfort, humor, and straightforward advice, The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant is the bedside companion to help you through it.
Sobre o autor(a)
Twenge, Jean M.
Jean M. Twenge, professora de psicologia na Universidade
Estadual de San Diego, é autora de mais de 120 artigos
científicos, dos livros Generation Me: Why Today’s Young
Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled — and
More Miserable than Ever Before, The Narcissism
Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (em coautoria
com W. Keith Campbell) e The Impatient Woman’s Guide
to Getting Pregnant, e dos livros didáticos Social
Psychology (em coautoria com David G. Myers) e
Personality Psychology: Understanding Yourself and
Others (em coautoria com W. Keith Campbell). Suas pesquisas
rendem matérias em revistas e jornais, incluindo
Time, Newsweek, New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News
& World Report e Washington Post, e ela é constantemente
entrevistada em programas e noticiários como
Today, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Fox &
Friends, NBC Nightly News e Dateline NBC, e na National
Public Radio. Após o bacharelado e o mestrado na
Universidade de Chicago, fez doutorado na Universidade
de Michigan. Twenge mora em San Diego, Califórnia, com
o marido e as três filhas. |
| ISBN | 9781451620702 |
| Autor(a) | Twenge, Jean M. |
| Editora | Atria Books |
| Ano de edição | 2012 |
| Páginas | 272 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 21,10 X 13,70 |