So, should the title be Proactive Pregnancy?

Picking a title is kind of like picking your child's name. It will live with you forever and you are to blame or praise.

Proactive Pregnancy started off as What You Need to Know Before the Baby Comes, which is thoroughly descriptive but kind of long. I started looking at other book titles and noticed that some have sexy names, like Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven, and How my Breasts Saved the World, but then I noticed that some books have a double title. A short title, followed by a more descriptive one, like, Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth by Jenny McCarthy.

So I thought long and hard and came up with Proactive Pregnancy. I wanted a search term with either pregnancy or baby and I like alliteration. Proactive sounds like a business term that means to get ready for and anticipate future problems.

The only other reference to the term Proactive is the acne solution which I've heard good things about.

Of course, now that hurricane season is almost upon those of us in the East and Southeast, I started seeing references to our Hurricane Preparedness Guide. So I started thinking, what if I call it a Baby Preparedness Guide? When a new baby comes to a first time mom, it is like a hurricane to her. But I don't want people to think that having a baby is a bad thing like Hurricane Katrina.

So I think I'll keep it Proactive Pregnancy: What You Need to Know Before the Baby Comes.

To view sample chapters, visit Proactive Pregnancy's website at www.joeandkatie.com/book.