This guide offers strategies for health, happiness and confidence throughout pregnancy, childbirth and a child's infancy. Comprehensive and practical, it recommends ways in which to achieve optimal health during preconception, including effective detox programmes for both partners. Kitty Campion lists the signs of pregnancy, and explains the advantages and disadvantages of conventional antenatal testing, proposing natural alternatives. She suggests ways to minimize risk factors through diet, relaxation and exercise, offers herbal remedies to alleviate common ailments during pregnancy, and indicates when to seek attention from a GP. Advising on conventional and natural childbirth options, she also discusses the control of pain and hospital interventions. There is full coverage of choice and preparation of herbal remedies. Kitty Campion is the author of Holistic Woman's Herbal.