Infanticipating: Every Preggy Woman’s Guide to Motherhood

Babies and kids don't come with instruction manuals. When you're pregnant, you don't automatically receive a pamphlet on how you should eat or what you can do to have a good pregnancy. Likewise, manuals don't fall from the heavens telling you what your husband should do to help you carry a healthy baby to term.

Wouldn't it be great if everything you needed to know about getting pregnant, pregnancy and babies could be detailed in one handy book?


Infanticipating: The First Pregnancy Guidebook for Filipinas

This is exactly what Infanticipating: Your Ultimate Guide to Motherhood—the first pregnancy guidebook written by Filipinas for Filipinas aims to become. This was written by known Lamaze instructor Rome Kanapi, who would give workbooks during her classes, which she found could be cumbersome to carry around. The idea then came to mind to come up with a handy manual that both expectant moms and dads could benefit from having.

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“Pregnancy is every woman’s dream. It’s something that every woman looks forward to – a time in her life when she feels the most fulfilled as a woman,” says Dr. Raul Quillamor, President of the Perinatal Association of the Philippines. He notes that Infanticipating was designed with the primary objective of helping women adequately prepare for pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and after-delivery care.

Infanticipating is a joint effort by PACE (Philippine Association for Childbirth Education) and Mommy Mundo, the Philippines' most extensive portal of mom and family-focused resources in partnership with GlaxoSmithKline.


Covering Preggy Essentials, How Tos for both The Expectant Mom and Dad
Infanticipating covers all areas of a healthy pregnancy, from:
•    choosing the proper childbirth classes
•    choosing the proper maternity
•    choosing the different vitamins you need to take
•    how to create a proper home checklist to prepare for your baby's arrival

Infanticipating also stresses the important role of your husband or partner in maintaining a healthy pregnant as well as the essential food and vitamins you need to take to prevent sickness and disease that could harm your unborn baby.


Pre-Pregnancy and Post-partum Vaccinations: Keeping Mommy’s and Baby’s Diseases at Bay
Aside from these, an important section of Infanticipating: Your Ultimate Guide to Motherhood covers the importance of pre-pregnancy and post-partum vaccination specifically against diseases such as German measles and Chickenpox. For instance, the guidebook reminds pregnant mothers that if they contract German measles while they’re pregnant, they put their unborn child at risk for a variety of problems that include deafness, heart problems, cataracts of the eyes, and mental retardation. The same goes for Chickenpox which put unborn children at risk of weakening or withering of the arms and legs (atrophy) and eye abnormalities.

“Preventive healthcare for babies should not begin at the moment they’re born; but at the moment that parents plan to have a baby,” stresses Dr. Quillamor. “And with 38% of Filipinas who are at childbearing age at risk of diseases such as rubella, the importance of pre-pregnancy vaccination can’t be overemphasized.”

A healthy pregnancy and childbirth don't need to be experiences that you have to second-guess your way to. With the comprehensive guides in Infanticipating, you can be sure that you can expect great things in both pregnancy and motherhood.

Click here to learn where to get your own copy of Infanticipating.

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To get your personal copy of Infanticipating, you can get your free copy at the Glaxo-Smithkline booth at the Expo Kid bazaar this October 1, Saturday, or you can visit their clinics next month for copies.

You can also download a copy of the e-book from mommymundo.com/infanticipating.