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Summary: I'm glad I didn't pay for this book!!
Review: I am burning this book at my next bonfire. I wouldn't dare pass this book on to anyone. If you are a woman that has decided to have a homebirth, don't waste your money. This chick is totally for using drugs and thinks your nuts if you want a natural birth. If you're a G-D fearing woman you'll be appalled by her suggestions of what your husband should do if you don't feel like having sex, and her choice of words leaves a lot to be desired. She also has tape set on the market referring to the first year of motherhood. She just repeats herself from this book on the first and 1/2 of the second side of the tape. Luckily, I didn't pay for that set either. I've decided to ask family and friends not to buy me any pregnancy or baby books. WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY!!
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Summary: Must read!
Review: After 4 pregnancies, including a home birth, I thought I had read it all and could probably right my own book. Since I haven't done this in 8 years though, I thought I might need a refresher. What a great surprise this book was! It was wonderful to read something that addressed things on such a matter-of-fact level, without all the medical mumbo-jumbo. I think whether this is your 1st or 5th pregnancy (like me), you really should read this fantastic guide. I couldn't put it down and read it in one weekend.
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Summary: Recent Pregger
Review: I have recently found out I am pregnant (6 weeks) and bought this book after reading some of the reviews. And I find the book hysterical and helpful!!!! I found myself doing some of the things that the author did herself.
It has been very helpful in calming some of my fears. I definitely recommend this book to any soon to be moms! its worth it.
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Summary: Not funny, and highly overrated
Review: The alleged humor in this book is mostly the author simultaneously complaining and boasting about how awful her pregnancies were. I'm reminded of a sorority girl moaning "I got soooooo drunk last night!" The stories are grotesquely exaggerated; very few women will have such terrible problems. She's trying to exaggerate for the sake of humor, but it just isn't funny. The one-note joke gets old after only a few pages.One of the "top 10 myths" is that pregnancy lasts for nine months. The author is confused by the forty-week counting system and concludes that pregnancy actually lasts ten months. Apparently no one has ever explained to her that the standard dating system counts from the date of her last period rather than the date of conception, and she has never even noticed that most months have more than 28 days. There is no real information in this book, and precious little entertainment. If you're desperate to read everything about pregnancy that you can, then you might want this for the sake of completeness. Otherwise, save your money.
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Summary: Should be called "The Yuppies' Guide to Pregnancy"
Review: If you are the kind of person who finds rehashing old male/female stereotypes, making fun of people who want the best for their child, and being obsessed with your looks funny, then I highly recommend this book.
If she wrote this book specifically as humor, it would be less of a problem, but she writes this book to be taken at least somewhat seriously. She appears downright ignorant about the benefits of breastfeeding and natural childbirth, unaware of the fact that not all of us are a size 4 and live in Hollywood, and she is insulting to families and men (for example, when she makes statements like "men who are involved in the pregnancy have too much time on their hands."
Check it out from the library if you're curious, but don't waste your money.
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Summary: Too Funny...
Review: This is a great break from the really serious pregnancy books. You still need those, but this book had me rolling on the floor! It is too funny. I will now be buying the Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year.
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Summary: Better Than "What to Expect..."
Review: I'm not an avid reader, but this book was so good, I finished it in 3 days. I laughed out loud through every chapter! It's by far more informative than "What to Expect When You're Expecting," and it's definitely more entertaining. It's a definite must-read!
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Summary: Expecting Dads ¿ don¿t get this book!
Review: For you expecting dads, especially first time dads - DO NOT GET THIS BOOK FOR YOUR WIFE. If it shows up at you house, I would suggest it should conveniently disappear into the lost-and-found abyss. It creates far more anxiety than anticipation. To begin with, your wife will be off balance hormonally and will have very understandable fears of pregnancy. This book, while somewhat humorous, takes the most miraculous time of a woman's life and turns it into a miserable, bleak, depressing experience - triggering neurotic thoughts of abandonment, hopelessness, and misery. You will spend most of your time undoing the dour predictions rather than rejoicing in this wondrous time together.
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Summary: Discouraging and Depressing
Review: When my wife read through this book she got depressed -- not only because of the negative, simplistic tone, but also because it seemed to mirror the back-handed compliments and "encouragement" she was getting from less supportive, less friendly, passive-aggressive acquaintances. The jokes on the cover of the book are a clue, ranging from a cartoon of a stretch mark to one of ugly "maternity chic" clothing. My wife's a good sport, but the hormones do rage and emotions are unpredictable when a woman is pregnant. There is no reason to risk it with this book. I sure wish I hadn't.
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Summary: The Good the bad, and the ugly.
Review: The good... this book is very funny at times, it is an easy read... and it has the facts down well... IF, (the bad) you are planning on letting you OB make all your choices, planning on a epidural, episiotomy, and laying down and letting the hospital make all the decisions for you... AND if you truely beleive that that epidural or other pain medications are NOT reaching that baby, and you believe that pain med.s are your right, forget the baby, "they" say it is safe!! - then this is the book for you... (the ugly) This book is giving women an excuse to not go further [research], not expect more from their caregivers... it is a book for the society of the women that are narrow minded in their thinking that "natural" births are for those that think they have something to prove... or something... It seems to justify decisions women make for conveinince and comfort, all the while complaining about the things that RESULT from those decsions (or lack of.) I get the feeling, that the authors ultimite goal would to be to have a "perfect birth" where she didn't get her make-up messed up... and never felt a contraction...
Like Lamaze, it is another resource that is out there that prepares women, (those not empowing themselves-which unfortunatley is the norm) will have happen TO them at birth... This is the source for the set that truely feel inconvenienced by birth and it's experiences... and a justification for those feelings is had here. Also for those who's partners are bystanders...
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