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Butterflies & Hiccups

A Guided Pregnancy Journal for the New Mom-to-Be

By iParenting Staff

:

• If you heard the baby's heartbeat, how did you react?
• Have people started treating you differently now that you're pregnant? How so?
• How many times have strangers touched your belly?
• Have you felt Braxton-Hicks contractions yet? If so, describe the feeling?
• Have you had any daydreams about your baby?
• What's the best piece of pregnany/birth advice you have received so far?
• Estimate how many times you have had to recite your due date so far.
• What are your thoughts about returning to work after the baby is born?
• Have you been nesting? If so, what have you done to prepare for the baby's arrival?
• What's the craziest question you wanted to ask your practitioner, but were too embarrassed to ask?

Butterflies & Hiccups provides a section each month for practitioner visits to document the first time you heard the baby's heartbeat, your first ultrasound, questions or concerns for your practitioner, special tests and other important issues addressed at your practitioner visits. "I wish I could prescribe this book to every pregnant woman!" says Dr. Donnica Moore, a women's health specialist who ecently appeared on Oprah and The View

Want to see more?

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• Write From the Beginning
• To Believe or Not Believe: Debunking Common Pregnancy Myths
• Talk about it!