[Paperback]" />Bipolar and Pregnant: How to Manage and Succeed in Planning and Parenting While Living with Manic Depression [Paperback]
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- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: HCI; 1 edition (August 15, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0757306837
- ISBN-13: 978-0757306839
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Average Customer Review:4.3 out of 5 stars style="margin-left:-3px">See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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About the Author
Kristin K. Finn (Grand Rapids, MI) was diagnosed with bipolar disorder just three months before her seventeenth birthday. Ms. Finn has over twenty years of career experience with major U.S. corporations, including Fortune 500 companies, and currently manages a successful business career as an investment advisor. She enjoys a happy marriage and has two daughters, one who also has bipolar disorder. Finn has been interviewed by the New York Times and lectures extensively on bipolar disorder and parenting.Dr. Carter is a licensed psychologist, best-selling author and a professional speaker. His expertise positively reinforces the book's contents and includes: • the coming and going of the executive functions in the course of the bipolar process • the importance of sleep and routine to avoid bipolar episodes • relevant personal experience growing up with an untreated bipolar motherDr. Hiemenga provides information on: • medical aspects of pregnancy • preparing for pregnancy • optimizing the chances of getting pregnant • minimizing the risks of psychiatric flare-upsadult and child psychiatrist with twenty years of clinical experience. Dr. Eerdmans focuses on post-pregnancy issues.Dr. Toriello is a Medical Geneticist and Director of Spectrum Health Genetics. She discusses genetic information relating to bipolar disorder, including current research on medications used to treat bipolar disorder and their affect on developing babies.Fred Finn, the author's husband of seventeen years, shares his perspective, coping skills, and adaptation to living with a spouse while she was off medication for bipolar disorder.provides reflections from the perspective of a former labor and delivery nurse, March of Dimes health educator, Michigan Genetics Advisory Board member, prenatal class instructor and, most importantly, as the author's mother.
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“Kristin Finn's book offers the reader keen insights into how she managed her bipolar disorder during her pregnancy. ”
“I feel as if at least one other woman out there understands what I'm going through, as if she could have written this book just for me. ”
“This book was amazing! ”
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27 of 31 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 starsNot What I Expected or Needed - Very DisappointingSeptember 28, 2007
By A. Wilson
Format:Paperback
I was very disappointed with this book. I had pre-ordered it and was very excited about the concept. As a bipolar woman trying to get pregnant with plenty of doubts, I thought this book would be educational. Instead it's pretty much one lady's story about her two pregnancies while she was off lithium. Since I don't take lithium and was instructed to stay on meds while pregant, her tale was just about useless for me.The book claims to give you the latest on the newer bipolar drugs: we're talking about a small chart in the apendix that had zero info about my drug (Seroquel) and I found way more info online. Although the author credits look impressive, the author has zero medical experience (and claims none, so that's fair).I thought this would give me more insight into bipolar pregnancies in general. Save your money because here's all the book tells you: The author was successful in managing her very specific case of bipolar and pregnancies off lithium by planning and charting her moods in journals, along with her husband. Since her family has always written in journals, this was normal behavior (whereas the rest of us might not take to journaling so easily or as effectively -- especially convincing our spouse to do the same!). Her husband was her cheerleader and they are very pleased with themselves. So pleased that they wrote about about how great they did. Kudos to them, but what about the rest of us? Those without journals and introspective mates? Those who have to make a horrible and confusing decision about staying on anti-psychotic medication while pregnant without any good research? Those who haven't been living with their illness as successfully as the author has since teenage years? Those who don't have the ability to take a part-time job instead of a full-time one to reduce stress? If you have those issues and questions, then this is not the book for you. Zero science. Zero research. Nothing about the latest information. You are better off using google and doing your own research.
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