Up the Duff

The 20th anniversary edition of Australias top-selling, most respected pregnancy book fully revised and updated.

First published in 1999, Kaz Cookes best-selling Up the Duff is firmly established as the most loved and trusted book for Australian and New Zealand women on pregnancy.

This 20th-anniversary edition has been fully revised and updated. Australias most trusted advisor on womens health delivers the lowdown on pregnancy, birth and how to best prepare for life with a baby. Theres no bossy-boots advice just lots of cartoons and the soundest, sanest, wittiest advice youll ever get.

Inside theres the crucial week-by week info on whats happening to you and the baby, coupled with the hilarious diary of Hermoine the (even more) Modern Girl, and everything you need to know about preparing for pregnancy and birth: info on conceiving and the latest in IVF; crying, eating, weeing, sleeping, working; partners, bosoms, busybodies and bunny-rugs; nausea, stretch marks and other 'side effects' mucking with your glow; the very latest tests what they are, what they're for and when you should have them; healthy foetal growth, development and movements; the best services, websites and books on everything pregnancy; 'natural childbirth' vs medical intervention; baby clothes and nappies; travel, safety, and how to be rude to complete strangers; labour, caesareans and pain relief; breastfeeding and what it's lifes like with a newborn baby.

Up the Duff has all you need to know on pregnancy and childbirth: the scary parts, the funny parts, the joyful parts and your private parts.