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  • Published: 1 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9780143795339
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $45.00

Up the Duff

the real guide to pregnancy



Australia’s top-selling, most respected pregnancy book – now fully revised and updated.

Kaz Cooke’s best-selling Up the Duff is firmly established as the most loved and trusted book for Australian and New Zealand women on pregnancy.


Australia’s most trusted advisor on women’s health delivers the lowdown on pregnancy, birth and how to best prepare for life with a baby.

There’s no bossy-boots advice – just lots of cartoons and the soundest, sanest, wittiest advice you’ll ever get.

> Comprehensive Pregnancy Guide: Week-by-week updates and humorous insights from Hermoine the (even more) Modern Girl
> Preparation for Pregnancy: Info on conception, birth, and the latest in IVF.
> Daily Pregnancy Life: Addressing daily challenges like eating, sleeping, weeing and working.
> Body Changes and Challenges: Surviving nausea, stretch marks, and other 'side effects' that mess with your pregnancy 'glow'.
> Prenatal Testing: Understanding the very latest tests, what they're for, and when they'll be poking and prodding you.
> Foetal Growth and Development: Monitoring healthy foetal growth and development.
> Childbirth Choices: Weighing the pros and cons of 'natural childbirth' vs. medical intervention.
> Baby Essentials and Postpartum: Covering everything from baby care, safety, and breastfeeding to how to be rude to complete strangers.

This edition has been meticulously revised and updated to provide the latest insights and advice for today's readers. It includes cutting-edge information on prenatal testing, sustaining a healthy pregnancy, due dates, and more.

Offering valuable insights for diverse readers, including same-sex couples, individuals from various backgrounds, and working parents, it also covers contemporary trends like baby showers and gender-reveal parties.

What's more, you'll find a treasure trove of invaluable resources, including the best services, websites, and books covering everything pregnancy, ensuring you receive guidance from trusted sources rather than relying on well-meaning but potentially misinformed partners and busybodies.

Up the Duff has all you need to know on pregnancy and childbirth – the scary parts, the funny parts, the joyful parts – and your private parts.

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Loved Up the Duff? Discover the perfect bookshelf companion with Babies & Toddlers by Kaz Cooke:

'Babies & Toddlers demystifies the good, the bad and the ugly moments of parenting.' SUNDAY HERALD SUN

  • Published: 1 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9780143795339
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $45.00

About the author

Kaz Cooke

For more than 30 years, award-winning, best-selling author Kaz Cooke has been helping generations of girls and women with her practical, reassuring and fun guides to life stages.

Kaz began her career at The Age newspaper as a teenage reporter. It published her famous satirical etiquette column, 'Keep Yourself Nice', and her legendary cartoon strip 'Hermoine the Modern Girl', which also appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald. Readers have enjoyed her work in Dolly magazine, The Australian, The Canberra Times, the Australian Women’s Weekly, and the Cane Toad Times (RIP), and many are familiar with her from all sorts of commercial and community radio shows.

Kaz’s book Real Gorgeous was a blockbuster in the 1990s, tackling the high-pressure ideas of body and beauty on girls and women; her collection of columns 'Living With Crazy Buttocks' won the international prize for oddest title. The original Girl Stuff book scooped the pool for its first edition, winning Australian Book Industry general non-fiction book of the year and the Australian Bookseller's Choice award.

Her other books include the meticulously researched, photo-illustrated book, You’re Doing It Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women; the historical novel based on real vaudevillians, Ada; and picture books for children, The Terrible Underpants and Wanda Linda Goes Berserk.

Up The Duff: The Real Guide to Pregnancy
, Babies & Toddlers (formerly Kidwrangling), Girl Stuff 8-12 and Girl Stuff 13+ have been updated often and are regularly still on genre best-seller lists: trusted, word-of-mouth-classics bought and gifted between generations.

Kaz lives in Melbourne where she drinks tea, talks on the phone, and can’t find her keys.

kazcooke.com.au

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