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• Amazon Sales Rank: #27377 in Baby Product

Customer Reviews

What to OBSESSIVELY WORRY ABOUT When You're Expecting
Word. This book should come with a warning sticker: DO NOT READ THIS BOOK IF YOU ARE PREGNANT, OR PLANNING TO BECOME PREGNANT. If you are even at all prone to anxiety, don't even pick it up. It focuses on all the things that can go wrong with a pregnancy and puts the onus all on the woman's behavior. This book exemplifies the unfortunate trend of pregnancy police/terrorism that would have you think that eating one piece of soft cheese MIGHT cause your baby to die. Taking one sip of beer is basically tantamount to infanticide. If your baby hiccups inside you (perfectly normal and good) it will make you think that the umbillical cord MIGHT be wrapped around the baby's neck, POSSIBLY because you made a wrong move in yoga class. Really, I understand that these things, unfortunately, DO happen, and it IS very important to watch what you eat and drink and to take special care of yourself while you are pregnant. It's a good time to put down the crack pipe for a while. Seriously, though, this kind of nattering at each and every thing the woman does during pregnancy that MIGHT cause problems is getting out of hand. The VAST MAJORITY of pregnancies are perfectly normal and to focus on all the RARE and HORRIBLE things that can go wrong is just -- F#%$-ED- up! At worst, it will terrify you and may even cause you to reconsider the relative merits of lifelong spinsterhood. At best, it will make you crazy-worried every second of your pregnancy, and guilty about every spoonful of food you eat, every drop of liquid you injest, every breath of air you breathe. A pretty crappy way of experiencing what should be a joyful, beautiful time in your life. Oh, and I just *LOVE* the country-cutesy illustration on the front cover. *I'm being SARCASTIC!*

Wealth of Information.....
I strongly disagree with the two previous individuals. This is my first pregnancy and I have found this book to be very informative and educational. I didn't find it to be scary at all. I use it like my pregnancy bible and refer to it all the time. It has information about anything and everything you could imagine regarding your pregnancy. It tells you the kind of food you need to eat to be sure your baby gets what it needs, what to expect during each week of the pregnancy and it goes over information regarding labor and delivery. I would highly recommend this book to any first-timers!

This book made me cry
Pregnant women should not read this. It outlines, in great detail, everything that could possibly go wrong with pregnancy and delivery. My mother gave it to me, and i glued myself to reading it. By the time my boyfriend came home from work, i was crying, terrified of labor and delivery. If you are even the slightest bit paranoid of something going wrong, don't read this.