Pregnancy For Dummies
January 16, 2012 by Robert
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Pregnancy For Dummies
Now updated–our bestselling guide to a safe and healthy pregnancyWith robust sales and its own four-part cable TV series, Pregnancy For Dummies has been a perennial favorite, giving parents-to-be authoritative, friendly, up-to-date advice on every aspect of pregnancy and childbirth. This new edition offers all of the latest information expecting parents want to know, including expanded coverage on the health and well-being of both mother and child. It takes readers through the first, second, an
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Extremely well organized and useful,
Pregnancy for Dummies is an excellent resource for the journey of pregnancy. It is extremely well organized, including a chapter on things to think about and prepare for before you get pregnant as well as a chapter on what to do with the baby once he/she is here! It is also very well written… with humor and anecdotes. I believe it is written by two OB/GYNs – a man and a woman who has had children of her own. Like the others below, I too found it superior to “What to Expect” which was pretty dry, and in a Q&A format that might not appeal to everyone. I’m not sure why the reader below freaked out about scheduled inducing, but you have to remember the book is written by doctors… inducing is convenient for them as well as perhaps the parents! Anyway, you won’t go wrong with this book.
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|Very Helpful at 3 AM,
This book was recommended to me by my OB/GYN, and I found it to be very helpful when I would freak out in the middle of the night… I particularly appreciated the fact that all the scary-but-rare stuff was put in one chapter at the end, so you could look it up if you needed to, but you didn’t have to encounter it when you were looking for more routine information. Too many other pregnancy books have the scary-but-rare information throughout, so you spend time worrying needlessly.
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|Common sense approach to pregnancy,
I’m 36, overweight, hypertensive, and having my first baby. I wish Pregnancy for Dummies had been the first pregnancy book I had purchased. I purchased three others before I finally got this – in my third trimester – after I rented the DVDs. This book is very straightforward and has sense of humor. I took a childbirth class chock full of info on natural childbirth, breathing, relaxing, etc. This book was a great companion to the class – a basic primer. If you need additional information, go ahead and buy a couple more books (25 is probably overkill, though. It’s a baby, not a thesis).
Two of the books I purchased prior — What to Expect When You’re Expecting and the Mother of All Pregnancy Books were loaded with every horrible thing that can happen at every stage of pregnancy. Loads more information on genetic problems than you need in a normal pregnancy. Heaven forbid if you eat a Twinkie at 22 weeks!! I thought they were both alarmist. My AFP test said I had a higher chance for Down’s Syndrome. I went to my amniocentesis test convinced that even if the baby tested fine that the amnio itself would cause me to miscarry. Long story short – the baby is fine and the amnio wasn’t a big deal (just don’t look at the needle!).
I think today that most women understand they need to stop drinking and smoking, take prenatal vitamins, eat some vegetables, and see an OB. If they don’t know already, then I can’t imagine they’d be buying any pregnancy books anyway.
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