About the book: 2021 / Olga Belokon is a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist, candidate of medical sciences, laureate of the Sanity Prize, popularizer of science and evidence-based medicine Over the years of the blog’s existence, Olga has managed to gather a huge audience of female readers who, living in the conditions of post-Soviet medicine, are lost in medical opinions, confused by the advice of friends, information on the RuNet and their own conjectures. So which is correct? Why does going to the antenatal clinic become a real torture for a pregnant woman? How many medications does the average pregnant woman receive? 5, 10, 15? What are drugs with unproven effectiveness and what maximum examinations should every woman expecting a child undergo? How not to fall for non-existent diagnoses and three-story treatment plans for them? This book will become your support and assistant, will protect you from unnecessary interventions, will give you invaluable knowledge about pregnancy norms, will tell you about all the problems that you may encounter, and about modern, reliable methods of treatment and diagnostics.2nd edition, expanded and revised