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Summary: don't read this while you are pregnant
Review: I read this way too early. It got my pregnancy depression off to an awful start. I am sure it would be better if I read this after having the baby--while up at 3 am, but NOT while still pregnant. AI have lived with my darling for 5 months and could never, EVER sit outside the door while she cried. Of course, i can't hire a nanny and moan and groan to my girlfriends about how I haven't lost the weight over morning coffee at the coffee house, but that's because I am a working mom-a teacher in the US. I may be a bit bitter, though. I think we are in such different worlds, I cannot identify with the author in this book.
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Summary: Please save your money, this a bad book!!!
Review: I got this book as a gift from friends and I totally hate it! Its so negative and she's very strong about that she thinks should be done and discounts any other options. Save your money or buy some other books that see pregnancy and motherhood as a gift from God instead of a nuisance. Because that's how she paints the whole picture, as a pain in the rear end experience.
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Summary: A fantastically funny validation of my postpartum 'state'
Review: 'The Best Friends' Guide to Motherhood ...' awaited me in post upon returning from hospital with our beautiful new bundle, courtesy of my veteran sister-in-law ('thanks' Eileen). It really was just the tonic I needed. My only complaint is that it nearly caused me to burst my caesarean stitches. It was such a relief to discover that all the physical and emotional changes I was experiencing were 'normal'. 'Thumbs up' to a book that made me laugh through the excruciating pain of cracked nipples. Hand-in-hand with this humour, Vicki manages to convey good, sound advice. Thanks for your contribution to the restoration of my sanity. What a winner.
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Summary: laugh your blues away
Review: I cannot stress enough how great and therapeutic it has been for me to read this book. Being worried about becoming a first-time mom and having your body turn against you during pregnancy can be so stressful, add to that the fact that I am the first of all my friends and in my family (first in my generation of 25+ cousins)... I needed the Girlfriend's Guide! The experience is like sitting with good friends who have been through it before -not only do you learn a lot but you get to laugh a lot too. This book doesn't take the place of Dr. Spock and it doesn't try to, this book is written specifically for the moms, to bring some lightness and laughter and reality checks back into their hectic lives. So if you feel down, have residual guilt feelings over something you thought, need some friendly advice or a need a break, please try out this book. It just might save your sanity. :D
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Summary: a Sorry Sequel
Review: While I loved her book about pregnancy, this book was a bore.
I didn't even finish it.
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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 YOU 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: First Year..
Review: This book should be read before you have your baby. The first few chapters are dedicated to labor, hospital, recovery, etc. The rest of the book is just ok. Not as informative or relevant as her first book.
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Summary: Girlfriend's Guide
Review: This book offers insight on pregnancy that only a girlfriend would tell you. This is not medical or to be used as a reference, but to tell you what you are experiencing is normal. Cute book.
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Summary: Fun, if you don't take her too seriously
Review: OK there's alot of contraversy about this book. Some people love it others hate it. YES Ms. Iovine is obsessed with weight and does not have a healthy attitude torwards food (She admits she eats "practially nothing"). You have to remember where she's coming from (She lives in the land of the beautuful people with a husband who works in the music industry and once lived with a rock star ) and forgive her these passages which are just an indication of her own insecurities. THe rest of her book is fun and funny and will make you smile.
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Summary: Excellent Resource
Review: Vicki Iovine tells it like it is. She doesn't sugar coat any part of pregnancy or motherhood, unlike those other books that we read. She's been there and experienced that. Her and her girlfriends are just what a new mom needs to survive. We all think that we are abnormal in our pregnancy and birth experience, but Vicki Iovine reassures us that we are completly normal and not to worry. She tells you what your mother and doctor don't tell you.
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