by Kaz Cooke, Rough Guides · Rough Guides · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781843536840
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«The Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth» is Kaz Cooke and Rough Guides' practical guide to pregnancy and childbirth, in paperback (432 pages, in English).
The work follows pregnancy week by week and explains the changes in the mother and baby: choice of birth place, morning sickness and common medical tests. It also covers stretch marks, first breastfeeding and life with a newborn, with sensible advice, humor and plenty of cartoons.
Second edition, revised and expanded, published on May 25, 2006 by Rough Guides in English. The original title of this guide was Up the Duff: The Real Guide to Pregnancy.
It is aimed at pregnant women and couples who want practical and humorous information about pregnancy, childbirth and the first months with the baby.
Kaz Cooke is an Australian author, cartoonist and broadcaster. She has written several bestselling advice books for girls and women, including Real Gorgeous, Up the Duff, Kidwrangling. Girl Stuff and Women's Stuff, as well as a series of ebooks on women's health topics. Cooke has been a columnist for various Australian newspapers and magazines, including Dolly, The Age, The Australian, Who and The Canberra Times. A collection of her columns, Living with Crazy Buttocks, won the 2002 Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year. In 2008, Girl Stuff won the Australian Publishers Association's General Non-fiction Book of the Year, the Australian Booksellers Association Nielsen BookData Booksellers' Choice Award, and an honour prize from the Children’s Book Council of Australia.
