What to Expect the First Year, Second Edition
It all started with a baby…and a book. Heidi Murkoff conceived the idea forWhat to Expect When You're Expectingduring her first pregnancy, when she couldn’t find answers to her questions or reassurance for her worries in the books she’d turned to for much-needed advice. Determined to write a guide that would help other expectant parents sleep better at night, Heidi delivered the proposal forWhat to Expect When You’re Expectingjust hours before delivering her daughter, Emma.Dubbed the “pregnancy bible”, the iconicNew York Timesbestseller is now in its all-new fourth edition, with over 17 million copies in print, and according to USA Today, is read by 93 percent of women who read a pregnancy book. Other titles in the series includeEating Well When You’re Expecting,What to Expect the First Year,What to Expect Before You’re Expecting(a complete preconception plan), and the newest member of theWhat to Expectfamily:What to Expect the Second Year, the must-have guide for parents of toddlers. The What to Expect books have sold more than 34 million copies in the US alone, and are published in over 30 languages.In 2005, Heidi expanded theWhat to Expect(WTE) brand online with WhatToExpect.com – the interactive, state-of-the-internet companion to the WTE books, and home to a vibrant, vast, yet close-knit community of 3 million parents. In 2009, WTE went mobile with the WTE Pregnancy Tracker (the most popular pregnancy app in the world), the WTE Fertility Tracker, the WTE Baby Name Finder, and the WTE First Year Tracker.Heidi’s passionate commitment to moms and babies led to the creation of the What to Expect Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping underserved families expect healthy pregnancies, safe deliveries, and healthy, happy babies. With a beautiful, culturally appropriate low-literac