Product Description

This day by day account of pregnancy will help expecting mothers discover captivating facts like when your baby is the length and weight of a hot dog roll, when the heart begins to beat, when their eyes open and they begin to look around, and 277 additional daily developmental facts beginning with "making me" and concluding with the "arrival."

This book will warm a mom's heart and soul. It's the making of a miracle and a keepsake forever Jodie Lynn, syndicated family columnist for Parent to Parent.

Mom's Choice Awards 2009 GOLD AWARD: Family & Parenting: Pregnancy & Childbirth

USABookNews.com 2008 FINALIST: Parenting/Family: Pregnancy & Childbirth

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75961 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Calendar
• 286 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780684049670
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
When Julie B. Carr was pregnant, her mother asked her, "What's happening to your baby today?"

Challenged, Julie did extensive research to answer that question and came up with a unique countdown guide/journal, which she self-published. Her self-published Countdown to My Birth now has over 20,000

copies in print. Most of the sales have been to infant shops, maternity shops, and hospital gift stores.

Julie lives with her husband and two children in Oregon.

Customer Reviews

Perfect for 1st Time Parents!
I love this calendar for a couple reasons:
(1) It's a good way to keep track of what week you're in and how many days you have left until your due date
(2) Most of the daily entries are helpful (particularly the weight/length/growth ones). There are a few entries that are completely useless (particularly near the end when baby has all its essential organs and is just growing) but it's still a nice reminder that baby is coming soon
(3) It's a way for my husband to feel involved. We read the entries together and it helps him get an idea of what is going on with baby.

I definitely recommend that you go through the calendar as soon as you get it and write the dates on each page, since we sometimes skip a day or two and need to read multiple at one time. A couple friends have gotten this for the grandparents-to-be and recommend this as a great gift so that the grandparents also feel involved in the process.

disappointed
Perhaps as a first time pregnancy I was a little TOO involved in reading about embryonic or childhood development (my husband and doctor would probably agree wholeheartedly!) but the trivia that was supposed to be really interesting in the countdown calendar was generally information that I'd already read previously except for the comparison of the baby's size to kitchen items (for example produce, etc.). I found the book "What's going on in there? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the first five years of Life" to be a MUCH more interesting, although it is not progressive like a calendar (today this happens...).

A great product!
I really like this calendar. I'm about 10 weeks pregnant now and I really enjoy reading what's going on with my baby every day. I would highly recommend this calendar!