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What if my baby isn't healthy? What if I can't handle the pain of labor and delivery? What if something goes wrong? What if I'm not a good mother? Along with the excitement and joy of pregnancy and motherhood, most women experience mild anxiety as a natural part of the process. For many women, though, these anxious thoughts become excessive and even debilitating. Many women develop anxiety for the first time or experience an increase in anxiety symptoms during and after pregnancy, yet this is the first trade book to specifically address pregnancy-related anxiety. Written by two anxiety experts, The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook addresses topics specific to new mothers, including hormonal changes, how the physical symptoms of pregnancy affect anxiety, and common concerns pregnant women and new mothers have. Readers develop new, empirically validated cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help them keep anxiety, worry, and irrational thoughts from dominating their experience of pregnancy and postpartum. These skills, taught through a series of exercises and worksheets, include relaxation training, cognitive restructuring, problem-solving, and exposure and response prevention. Throughout the book, the authors guide readers, step by step, to show them how to recognize their anxiety triggers and symptoms and apply these anxiety management techniques when necessary. The workbook includes a chapter on postpartum depression, a disorder that often co-occurs with postpartum anxiety, and a chapter that offers fathers tips for understanding and supporting their partners.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 3 reviews)

Disappointing suggestions by boy crazy (Illinois)

2 Stars
February 27, 2010
I didn't need to spend $25 to read about very basic relaxation techniques like deep breathing, tensing and releasing muscles, and imagining myself on a warm sandy beach.

This book has been very helpful to me so far and I know it will continue to be. Knowledge is power and this book gives me that by Karen E. Beckner (Florida)

5 Stars
January 31, 2010
So far I am only in the first few chapters but this book has already helped me alot. It has helped me understand what I go through better and helps me understand myself. Which in return I dont feel so alone. Dealing with anxiety can be hard but understanding helps me control it a bit and handle it better when I do have it. I would highly highly recommend this book to any women that is prego or has had a baby even if it was a few years ago, if you still have the anxiety this book will help. I am very grateful.

Awesome, excellent, Book on Postpartum Amust read for all women about to have a baby! by Bridgette Harvey (Maine)

5 Stars
December 12, 2009
I found this book to be very helful! This isn't a real workbook like we had in school. It was easy to understand and read.This book was informative. It gives you alot of coping skills! I would recommend this book to all new mothers-to-be!

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