Your Healthy Pregnancy with Thyroid Disease: A Guide to Fertility, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Wellness

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At minimum, 27 million Americans have thyroid disease. Despite being the majority of thyroid sufferers, women rarely know that thyroid problems increase their risk of pregnancy complications, including infertility, preeclampsia, miscarriage, premature delivery, and low birth weight. This awareness gap affects patients and doctors, who know little about the ramifications of an undiagnosed or under-treated thyroid condition on a mother and her unborn baby.Founder of HypothyroidMom.com Dana Trentini and thyroid health advocate and bestselling author Mary Shomon have both endured challenges with pregnancies due to thyroid disorders. In Your Healthy Pregnancy with Thyroid Disease , they team up to give readers the answers they need. With personal stories and cutting-edge medical advice from leading health practitioners, the book explains how to recognize thyroid symptoms, get properly diagnosed/treated, manage thyroid problems during pregnancy, overcome thyroid-related infertility, and deal with postpartum challenges.

Dana Trentini is the founder of hypothyroidmom.com. She was diagnosed with hypothyroidism one year after the birth of her first son Benjamin in 2006. After four years of intense research and a quest to find the top thyroid health professionals, Dana launched her blog Hypothyroid Mom, a blend of personal story and scientific research. She has been featured on numerous radio shows, television and video programs, and online webinars and seminars, including the Huffington Post and EverydayHealth.com. In addition to running Hypothyroidism Mom, Dana works as an executive coach and talent development consultant in New York City.Mary Shomon is the New York Times bestselling author of Living Well with Hypothyroidism, The Thyroid Diet, and Thyroid Diet Revolution. She was diagnosed with Hashimoto's hypothyroidism in 1995 and is now known around the world as America's leading thyroid patient advocate. Mary is regularly featured as part of online webinars, seminars, and training programs. She is on the faculty of the New York Open centre, New York City's premiere holistic health training centre, where she teaches a number of workshops a year on thyroid health, diet, immune health, stress management, and hormonal health. Shomon has done more than 50 television appearances and interviews regarding thyroid awareness issues, including ABC World News Tonight, among others. She has appeared in hundreds of magazines and newspaper articles, including Time, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, First for Women, Elle, and The Wall Street Journal.

"Dana Trentini and Mary Shomon are a formidable pair of thyroid advocates. This book will change the lives of millions of women and their babies."--David Borenstein, MD, founder, Manhattan Integrative Medicine Infodad.com, 7/7/16 "The personal knowledge of the trauma and the not-always-adequate treatments...gives [this] book considerable power."