"Name the week. Then take the next small step."
Heidi Murkoff wrote What to Expect When You're Expecting after her own first pregnancy left her with more questions than a short visit could hold. The 1984 guide, later editions hers, became the pregnancy reference tens of millions of parents keep on the nightstand. She also built WhatToExpect.com and the What to Expect Project for maternal health.
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What to Expect When You're Expecting summary: Heidi Murkoff’s week-by-week pregnancy map — name this week, then take the next small step.
Read Summary →Open this week’s chapter — body, baby, feeling, action — instead of swallowing the whole pregnancy.
Symptoms come with a range. The edge of the range belongs to a clinician, not a forum.
Birth plans help the room. Bodies revise. Write one page and let it change.
"I was the world’s most panicked pregnant woman."— Heidi Murkoff, on writing the first edition
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What to Expect When You're Expecting summary: Heidi Murkoff’s week-by-week pregnancy map — name this week, then take the next small step.
