Your Second Pregnancy

Conceiving and carrying a second baby is not always easier or even as easy as a first pregnancy. During each stage of the process - conception, pregnancy, labour and birth - there will be experiences that differ. Your ability to conceive a healthy child and have a vaginal delivery, your risk of suffering certain pregnancy-related conditions, the ease with which you are able to maintain your physical wellbeing and that of your unborn baby while caring for an older child, and your being able to manage a two-child family are only some of the challenges you will meet in a second pregnancy.

Auteur
Keith Eddleman, MD is the Director of Obstetrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York and a senior member of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. In addition to Maternal-Fetal Medicine, he is also board certified in Clinical Genetics. His areas of special interest are reproductive genetics, ultrasound, and diagnostic procedures. Joanne Stone, MD is the Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship Director and Director of Perinatal Ultrasound and Division Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Her areas of interest include ultrasound, fetal therapy, and prenatal diagnosis. Both physicians have a busy consultative and clinical practice as well as being active in teaching and research. They are coauthors of The Pregnancy Bible and Pregnancy for Dummies.