Pregnancy
Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library
Research Guide

This guide is to assist you in finding the many materials available in your free public library on Pregnancy. All items listed below are available through your local branch of the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library. Should you not be able to locate what you are looking for, please ask our staff, who will be happy to assist you.

Our Online Catalogue is available in the Library using an Information Express computer or on the Internet at www.parl.ns.ca.

Subject Headings:

These are some of the subject headings to use when searching the online public library catalogue for books. Our staff will be glad to show you how to search and locate materials, please ask!

Books:

Understanding your moods when you're expecting: emotions, mental health, and happiness - before, during, and after pregnancy. Puryear, Lucy. Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 618.2 Pur
The Harvard Medical School guide to healthy eating during pregnancy. Walker, W. Allan. Mc-Graw Hill. 2006.618.24 Wal
Breastfeeding Made Simple: seven natural laws for nursing mothers. Mohrbacher, Nancy. 649.33 Moh
The Premature Baby Book: Everything you need to know about your premature baby from birth to age one. Sears, William. New York: Little, Brown. 2004 618.92Sea
The Nursing Mother's Companion 5th edition. 649.33Hug
What to Expect the First Year. Murkoff, Heidi. New York: Workman Pub. 2003. 649.122 Mur
The Billings Method: using the body's natural signal of fertility to achieve or avoid pregnancy. Billings, Evelyn. Melbourne: Anne O'Donovan. 2003. 613.94 Bil
Leslie Beck's Nutrition Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy: What to eat before, during, and after your pregnancy. Beck, Leslie. Toronto: Penquin Canada. 2004. 618.24 Bec
The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two. Sears, William [et al]. Boston: Little, Brown. c2003. 649.122 Bab
The pregnancy bible : your complete guide to pregnancy and early parenthood. consulting editors, Joanne Stone, Keith Eddleman. Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2003. 618 .24 Pre 
Eating for pregnancy : an essential guide to nutrition with recipes for the whole family.  Jones, Catherine, with Rose Ann Hudson. New York : Marlowe & Co., c2003. 618 .24 Jon
What to expect when you're expecting. Murkoff, Heidi E. , Arlene Eisenberg, & Sandee Hathaway. New York : Workman Pub., 2002. 618 .2 Mur
Conception, pregnancy and birth. Stoppard, Miriam ; Canadian consultant, Anne Biringer. [London] : Dorling Kindersley, 2002. 618 .2 Sto
Misconceptions : truth, lies, and the unexpected on the journey to motherhood. Wolf, Naomi. New York : Doubleday, 2001. 618 .2 Wol
Childbirth and pain relief : an anesthesiologist explains your options. Datta, Sanjay . Chester, NJ : Next Decade, Inc., c2001. 617 .96 Dat
Best practices, fetal alcohol syndrome/fetal alcohol effects and the effects of other substance use during pregnancy.  Prepared by Gary Roberts and Jo Nanson for Canada's Drug Strategy Division, Health Canada. [Ottawa] : The Division, 2000, c2001. 618 .3 Rob 
Healthy beginnings : your handbook for pregnancy and birth.  [edited by Maryhelen Vicars & Associates ; illustrations, Arlana Anderson]. Ottawa : Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, c2000. 618 .2 Hea 
A new life : healthy pregnancy-- healthy baby.  [written by Janis Wood Catano and Grace M. Beazley]. Halifax, N.S. : Dept. of Health, c1998. 618 .34 Cat 
Your baby from birth to 6 months. [text by Katy Holland]. New York : DK Pub., 2002. 305 .231 Hol 
The breastfeeding sourcebook : everything you need to know. Rosenthal, M. Sara with a foreword by Gillian Arsenault. Los Angeles : Lowell House, c2000. 649 .3 Ros

Videos:

Prenatal development [videorecording]. Monmouth Junction, N.J. : Meridian Education Corp. ; Toronto : Kineticvideo.com [distributor], [2002]. 618 .24 Pre
The 40 weeks to motherhood [videorecording] : wellness for mothers-to-be, a video guide. [Canada] : Ross Pediatrics, c[199-?] 618'.2'For 
The miracle of birth [videorecording]. [England] : BBC Video ; Beverly Hills, Calif. : CBS/Fox Video, c1998. 618'.2'Mir
14 steps to better breastfeeding [videorecording]. Boulder, Colo. : Injoy Productions ; Toronto : Kineticvideo.com [distributor], c2000. 649 .33 Fou 
Newborn care [videorecording]. Timonium, Md. : Milner-Fenwick ; Toronto : Kineticvideo.com [distributor], [2000]. 649 .122 New 

Websites:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/pregnancy/PR99999 Mayo Health Clinic Pregnancy Center
 http://www.kinderstart.com/pregnancyandbirth/ Kinderstart Pregnancy & Birth
http://www.motherisk.org/ Motherisk
http://all-about-pregnancy.v25.com/pregnancy/index.html All about Pregnancy
http://parenthood.com/  A comprehensive source directory of pregnancy, parenting, and child care articles and Web sites.

Magazine Articles:

Check out the magazine index by clicking on E-Magazines & Journals on the Parl website at the Information Express computers, then choose CPIQ or Gen=l Reference. Enter the above subject headings as subject guide or keyword to locate information from over 1,000,000 articles in this database. If you are at home, email us at info@parl.ns.ca and we can email the entire article directly to you.

A Reference Service is available throughout the Pictou-Antigonish Region to answer any inquiries you may have. If you are having difficulty finding the information you need - please ask