October 26, 2008
The New Mom’s Survival Guide
Dr. Wider covers a wide range of post-partum health concerns, providing you with answers to many common, and maybe not so common, after-preggo health questions and concerns you may have. For those of you worried about your relationship with the hubby, there’s plenty of information regarding what’s going down with your hoo-ha down there now that you’ve popped out the little one. Your questions to basic skin questions like melasma, skin tags, varicose veins and dreaded stretch marks are answered. There’s a section about why you might be, um, just a bit incontinent (#1 and #2), and also what to do if your child gets the croup or pinkeye. If your boobies are sore from breastfeeding, or if you might have a plugged duct, find out what to do.
You’ll find advice on how to still keep a healthy relationship with your spouse and your friends. You’ll find advice on what to do if you’re not feeling so hot emotionally and mentally. You’ll find advice on how to be and stay healthy.
The parenting book market is saturated with books about what to do with baby, but what do you do with yourself to make sure that you can? Dr. Wider’s The New Mom’s Survival Guide will help you answer those questions, and you’ll learn about a bunch of health issues that affect new moms that you may not have known about yet. I like it not because it’s a book for moms, but because it’s all about our health and our sanity as moms.
I’m giving away a copy of The New Mom’s Survival Guide (US $15.00 value) to one lucky reader!
To enter, fill out this short form with your information. The deadline to enter is 11:59pm EST on November 4, 2008. To be eligible, you must have a US or Canadian mailing address. For a second chance at winning, mention this contest on your blog and comment on this post with a link back to that post 
I’m changing the rules of my giveaways from here on in, by the way. You don’t have to enter your shipping information to enter, but if I don’t get an email response from the winner within 48 hours after I let her know she’s won, then another winner will be chosen.
Learn more about Dr. Jennifer Wider at her website: http://www.drwider.com/.
Read an excerpt from the book:
Advice from the Underbelly
By Jennifer Wider, MD Author of The New Mom’s Survival Guide
How to Reclaim Your body, Your Health, Your Sanity, and Sex Life After Having a Baby
When I was pregnant with my first child, I had no absolutely no idea what to expect. I went about my business as if nothing was different. At work I’d occasionally glance down at my growing belly as thoughts of chubby, quiet, smiling babies dressed in all-white filled my mind. I had convinced myself that my life wouldn’t really change.
Fast forward a few months—I was sitting in my infant daughter’s room and we were both crying. She was crying because she needed a new diaper; I was crying for my old life, my lack of sleep and my resentment toward my husband whose life hadn’t really changed at all. To add insult to injury, he came home that night “in the mood.” Was he on drugs?
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Most people think new moms don’t have time for themselves or their own health, but given the proper resource, they will unquestionably make the time. Sit down with a group of women after they give birth and inevitably, the conversation will turn to health matters that relate to themselves as well as their babies and children. It is my hope that this book can provide some of the much-needed reassurance and solid, well-researched health information to new mothers during this tumultuous but miraculous time period.
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