When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads

When You’re Expecting Twins, Triplets or Quads:

Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy

When You’re Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads by Dr. Barbara Luke, Tamara Eberlein, & Roger Newman, MD. is an award winning,  nutritionally based prenatal program for the growing number of women pregnant with multiples. Revised and expanded for an era when multiple births are on the rise, the fourth edition of When You’re Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads includes the results of our nationally recognized Multiples Clinics, guidelines regarding nutritional recommendations for multiples, updated information regarding medical and obstetrical complications of twins, triplets or more, exercise, safety and other practical recommendations for the postpartum mother as well as new recipes. The fourth edition is due Summer 2016.

Book Offerings

Guidelines on BMI-specific nutritional needs including vegetarian options and advice for women following bariatric surgery.

Discusses the relationship between maternal weight gain and pregnancy outcomes for multiples including the studies on which the 2008 Institute of Medicine weight gain recommendations were based.

How to prevent, recognize, and treat the potential complications associated with monochorionic and dichorionic twins, triplets or higher order multiples.

What to expect during labor, in the NICU, breastfeeding, and surviving those first few months at home after birth.

How to cope with the emotional ups and downs of being pregnant with a multi-fetal pregnancy.

Offers specific practical advice on all aspects of multiple pregnancy including safety, exercise, managing bed rest and diet with recipes, menus  and 5-Star nutritional options.

Reports on the successes achieved with our nationally recognized multi-fetal Twins Clinic.