Everything you need to achieve optimum well-being.

This book is the essential guide to nutrition for women who are either planning to conceive, are pregnant, or have given birth. It will also help women who are having difficulty conceiving or taking their baby to term. Top nutritionist Patrick Holford and journalist Susannah Lawson start with a pre-conception nutrition checklist, moving on to cover nutrition in pregnancy, complete with diet and meal plans, and follow up with useful advice about your own nutrition in early parenthood - from beating the baby blues to how to produce the best-quality milk. The final section deals with optimum nutrition for babies and young children, with information about weaning, prevention of allergies, and the ideal diet for a healthy child. Discover top nutritional advice to help you to:

• Achieve maximum fertility and good health
• Prevent birth defects
• Prevent sickness and other pregnancy problems
• Prevent allergies in your baby
• Feed your baby in the best way possible
• And much more

Patrick Holford is one of the world's leading authorities on new approaches to health and nutrition. He ahs a degree in psychology and in 1984 he founded the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION), a charitable and independent educational trust for the furtherance of education and research in nutrition. It is now the largest training school in the UK for nutrition consultants and widely respected as a leading edge organisation by professionals and media alike. Patrick Holford frequently appears on television and radio discussing nutrition, food, environmental and health issues. He also lectures and presents workshops throughout the world to the public and health professionals on a wide range of topics. During the last decade he has written 14 books on the subject, selling close to half a million copies worldwide. He is also the editor of Optimum Nutrition magazine, published quarterly by ION.

For more information on Patrick Holford please visit www.patrickholford.com