Dr Miriam Stoppard is Britain's best-selling pregnancy and childcare author with UK sales of over 2.2 million copies alone. She has appeared on television and has published more than fifty books on childcare & development, fitness & diet and women's health, including Conception, Pregnancy and Birth, Baby and Child Health Care, You and Your Toddler, Your New Baby and Complete Baby and Child Care. She is currently a columnist for The Mirror.