Attack of the Fifty-Foot Hormones

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For many women, the emotional aspects of pregnancy are far more taxing than the physical ones. There's no shortage of studies into the health of the foetus and the physical state of its incubator. But how women feel during pregnancy is largely ignored. It's just pregnancy, right? They'll cope. Unfortunately, not everyone does. This wise and very funny book is the result of hundreds of interviews with sympathetic professionals and pregnant women generous enough to reveal how they stayed sunny side up. It is the essential survival guide to staying sane during pregnancy - a time when complete strangers think it's OK to grope your groin, when it's tempting to eat not just for two but for three or four, and when even the most ginormous underpants fit better back-to-front.

Emma Tom is an award-winning Sydney writer and broadcaster. Her column appears in The Australian newspaper each Thursday and she freelances widely for magazines and newspapers both in Australia and overseas. She has written six books including a novel, DEADSET, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Asia and the South Pacific for Best First Novel in 1997. In her spare time, Emma tutors and lectures at assorted Sydney universities and is inching her way through a PhD at the University of New South Wales.