In Asking for a Pregnant Friend: 101 Answers to Questions Women Are Too Embarrassed to Ask about Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood, beloved childbirth educator, doula, and author Bailey Gaddis offers real, safe, savvy, and nonjudgmental answers to the most personal questions about pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood. And, for added support, Bailey enlisted a team of experts for up-to-the-moment scientific and professional information for many of the questions.

What is that smell? Is the fetus okay when I have sex? What should I do if I'm sad about my baby's gender? Why do I feel aroused when breastfeeding? Is it normal to be jealous of my baby? Unfortunately, women who summon the courage to ask these questions online are frequently met with unwelcome judgments or inaccurate information.

"There are thousands of us slipping away from prying eyes to scan chat rooms and forums, flip through books, and make our fingers numb with Google searches as we look for answers to the same things you came to this book wondering about," writes Bailey. "I don't want you to feel like tracking down answers is a full-time job. I want you to have all the answers in one place, from a friendly, accurate source. I also want those answers to come from a friend who would never judge or make you feel like a weirdo for asking that 'TMI' question. So…can we be friends?"

We talk about

Pregancy and sexPost partum depressionOrgansimic birthDefine a birth doulaEating the placentaCord blood bankingThe boob hammockJealousy of other womenThe capacity for loveReveal partiesMiscarriageAbortionBabies and petsBreastfeeding

Bailey Gaddis is the author of Asking for a Pregnant Friend and Feng Shui Mommy. She is a childbirth preparation educator, birth doula, and hypnotherapist and a regular contributor to media outlets including Working Mother, Fit Pregnancy, Pregnancy, and Newborn, Cosmopolitan, Woman's Day, Disney's Babble, and more. She also volunteers for a program where she offers in-home support to parents of newborn babies, specifically single mothers and babies with special needs. Visit her online at http://www.baileygaddis.com.