That's a Big Belly! Yeah, I'm Pregnant.

Did pioneer women have this worry: "Oh, no, I've just churned the butter, hoed the fields, given birth in between, but darn it, I can't fit into my skinny jeans!"

No, it's safe to say they did not. But for modern women in a society with tabloid "baby bump watch" and photos of "rocking post-baby bodies," even the most sane woman can be driven mad when dealing with the myriad (and, let's not forget, hormonally-charged) pregnancy issues.

The timing could not be better then, for Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat? a new book co-authored by Claire Mysko and Magali Amadei, with the subheading The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby.

Well thank goodness somebody's on the case, because aside from the gross comparisons to the aforementioned celebrity post-pregnancy, Pilates-perfected, and possibly surgically-enhanced bodies, there's not much out there to help real women appreciate the differences in their bodies after baby.

With 400 women interviewed, there's sure to be one, whose first name isn't Angelina, Halle or Posh, to whom new mothers can relate.

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