This fully revised and updated guide to pregnancy and childbirth in New Zealand provides detailed information to help New Zealand women make informed chokes on everything from home or hospital birth to breastfeeding or bottle-feeding. The topics covered include conception, pregnancy, and birth; the developing baby: the mother's changing body; midwives. doctors, and obstetricians; maternity clothes, baby clothes, and equipment; feeding and looking after the baby; coping with work commitments; and the joy, pain, and other feelings involved.