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Summary: GREAT FOR A LAUGH
Review: I LOVED this book. All the other pregnancy books scared me. They were all doom and gloom, making you think you had every thing wrong with you. If you've had difficult pregnancies, buy this book. It's good for a laugh. Loved it.
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Summary: The Perfect Baby Shower Gift Consists Of These Books...
Review: I thought that this was by far the best pregnancy information book on the market. Combine the books, "A Girlfriends Guide to Pregnancy...", "Babytales:A Pregnancy Companion", "The Baby Book..." and "The Child Whisperer"...throw in some diapers and formula and you have the greatest BABY SHOWER gift ever!!!
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Summary: A great addition to pregnancy books!
Review: I understand some of the criticism this book has received, but feel that your thoughts on the book will be determined by how you approach it. If you want a medical book that will give you all the details -- the risks, the facts, the official recommendations -- this book is not for you. If you want advice from your best friends who has gone through pregnancy, this book is for you. If your best friends, your mother, and the other women in your life aren't around -- or you simply want to hear it from another woman -- this book is perfect for you. I found The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy to be candid, funny and down-to-earth -- just what I need during my first pregnancy. I found it helpful (and reassuring) to read about when real women gain weight, an informal look at how your body changes, and issues women run into with their partners. The book has information you're not going to run into the factual "XYZ" Guide to Pregnancy. It's not the only book to get, rather, a wonderful addition to the more medically-oriented books on pregnancy that are also valuable to read.
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Summary: yuk yuk YUK!
Review: I can understand having some personal pearls of wisdom to share, but where EXACTLY does this woman obtain her facts from?? Is she claiming to be an expert at pregnancy issues by virtue of the fact that she has givven birth 4 times? I surely hope not. I found the book to have a negative and hateful tone to it, excusing nasty behavior which is rude in any circumstance, one which seems to want to exclude men from the birthing process altogether. I think the author needs a reality check and a taste of her own advice...ATTENTION AUTHOR: "MEN, CONTRARY TO YOUR OWN POPULAR BELIEFS MAY ACTUALLY BE SENSITIVE AND GENUINELY CARING, WITH A SINCERE DESIRE TO BE INVOLVED WITH THEIR SIGNIFICANT OTHERS AND SUPPORTIVE DURING THE PREGNANCY!! NOT ALL MEN ARE INSENSITIVE LETCHES WHO ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN PAWING THEIR WIVES..." This book has some value though, I used it as fireplace kindling....DONT waste your money.
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Summary: Must have for any first time mommy-to-be
Review: This is what it should be like when you have no idea what to expect the first time you have a baby. This book covers all the gore and surprises that are in store for any first timer. I have given my copy to many and have even stopped pregnant women in the book section to tell them about this one. A definiet must have on your shelf.
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Summary: A Good Lift!
Review: A friend gave me this one when our tests came back positive. I laughed my head off and felt much less alone in the whole experience. It's the perfect antidote to the What to Expect series, which I found a little censorious. Vicki Iovine is frequently irreverent, always humorous, but after all is said and done, she gives her readers a good dose of reality. My best endorsement is that I'd give this one as a gift to any pregnant girlfriends.
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Summary: The manhating, yuppified, self centered guide to pregnancy
Review: All I need to say further is that in one chapter of the book, Ms. Iovine has the nerve to say that you should should expect your husband to cheat on you if you don't have sex with him regularly while you are pregnant. She also suggests an extra stitch after an (in her world) obligatory episiotomy to "tighten things up down there."Furthermore, in Ms. Iovine's world, single women apparantly do not get pregnant, nor do nonbody obsessed women, or women who have more things to do than whine.
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Summary: A nice break from the very serious pregnancy books
Review: This book is a breath of fresh air amidst the majority of books out there about pregnancy. I found this book to be entertaining and after having my son, I can vouch that there is alot of truth in "what to expect". This book doesn't serve to make the expecting mother more paranoid(any more than she already is) with talk of all the things that can go wrong with the baby, all the things she should and shouldn't be eating, and all the ways to avoid getting fat. Vicki Iovine speaks with a fresh and welcome tone and manages to make light of a very life-changing experience. This book is a pretty standard gift for new pregnant friends.
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Summary: I would've burned it, but it wasn't my copy.
Review: Really. Though some have found this book immensly helpful, I found the author/narator's obsession with her physical appearance grating. The advice to forget about excercise because you'll get fat anyway was ludicrous. Also, as an admittedly biased first time mom who gave birth at home with midwives in attendance, I didn't really get anything out of the 'trust you doctor' vibe.
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Summary: there are other, better books
Review: My best friend and I were disappointed in this book. While seemingly written to be humorous, we strongly feel that the underlying message of this book is to encourage and to validate being bitchy or whiny during pregnancy. It wasn't a book I could share with my husband because he was offended in the first chapter. If you want good books that answer your pregnancy questions, try "What to Expect When You are Expecting" or Dr. Sears' "Birth Book."
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