YOU: Having a Baby: The Owner’s Manual to a Happy and Healthy Pregnancy
Few life experiences feature the extreme emotional swings as pregnancy does — it’s a monumental mix of both intense excitement and skip-a-beat anxiety. If you’re like most, you scour web sites, read books, browse blogs, and pick the brains of every friend, family member, and store clerk who’s ever had a baby. You talk about the ups and downs, the cravings and the nausea, the maternity clothes and the stretch marks. During this 280-or-so day journey, this sometimes-scattered mindset is perfectly
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Okay — But Disorganized and Not What I Expected,
I purchased this book based on a recommendation in a magazine. The excerpt provided there talked about epigenetics. I was very intrigued and expected there to be a wealth of information on this topic — there was just a very short section :( The rest of the information is quite good, and I picked up several valuable pointers (despite the fact that I’ve read about a gazillion books on pregnancy before). However, I agree with reviewers that said this book is not essential if you have others laying around the house already. The epigenetics section certainly isn’t enough to set it apart like I hoped it would.
I also found the book to be very disorganized (jumping from what to eat while you’re pregnant, to what to buy for your newborn, to how to choose an OB, to what to do if you are having trouble getting pregnant, and back to what to do while you’re pregnant, and so on). I found myself wondering who in the world organized the content for the book, because it didn’t make sense to me!
All in all, I was very disappointed by this title, which I have for the Kindle. As a note, the Kindle version’s formatting is VERY off and many sentences are completely missing and certain tables completely unreadable.
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|least favorite pregnancy book,
I hate to leave a negative review of anything Dr. Oz does, but this book was a huge disappointment. I have an arsenal of pregnancy, baby and child-related books and was so excited for this new one that I pre-ordered it and checked the mailbox daily. The book is not what you would expect if you’re used to reading the “What to Expect” series. It actually reads like a middle school health text book with endless, useless illustrations that are just not of value for even the most moderately educated woman. If you have a pretty good awareness of your body, health and your reproductive system, this book is pretty dumbed-down…kind of a “Pregnancy for Dummmies.” There was hardly any information that actually answered my “run for the bookshelf” questions like the What to Expect books. I rarely want to return a book, but this one is truly useless to me.
If you want a complete pregnancy book, I would highly recommend the What to Expect When You’re Expecting, but even more so, the Dr. Sears “Pregnancy Book”, which surprised me by becoming my favorite. I love the Dr. Sears books, but am not a huge fan of co-sleeping and attachment parenting…just returned their “Baby Sleep Book”…but their Pregnancy Book is really comprehensive, especially for all those neurotic questions we come up with as pregnant mothers! I also LOVE the Dr. Sears “Breastfeeding Book” and “The Nursing Mother’s Companion”. Once baby arrives, I cannot recommend highly enough “The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems” by Tracey Hogg. By far, the most helpful, wonderful, effective book for all things infant ever created!!! This book was/is my Baby Bible! Kind, loving methods to solve every baby question/problem from eating to sleeping to breaking bad habits – amazing!!!
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|Save your money.,
What a stupid book. It’s poorly organized, superficial, condescending, and glib–the humor is totally lame and not even appropriate at times. There’s nothing here that you won’t find in WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, and you’ll find a LOT more useful and well-organized advice in that book. The authors make a big deal about their discussion of epigenetics, but all it amounts to is the same advice you’ll find elsewhere, and in better detail, about eating healthfully during pregnancy. Duh. The section on labor is too short and, like the rest of the book, is illustrated with grotesque, ill-conceived drawings that will only serve to heighten women’s fears about pain. Just about every topic is handled too briefly, including such important topics as circumsion, making this book an insult to thinking women who really would like to know in depth what’s going on with their babies and their bodies. The authors clearly rushed through this book to beef up their “You” series and horn in on the pregnancy market. Terrible.
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