What to Expect When You're Expecting: 4th Edition by Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of What to Expect When You're Expecting: 4th Edition
Book Review: A MUST HAVE
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a must have book. I bought it as soon as I found out I was pregnant. It answers all those questions that I was to embarrsed to ask my friends! And it gives you a week by week of your child and what to expect. A deffinet must have for all moms to be.Book Review: Very Good
Summary: 5 Stars
I was very pleased with this book, every first time pregnant women needs it for sure!! I learned so many new things!!Book Review: To All the Expecting Fathers ...
Summary: 1 Stars
Guys ... consider this a warning; this will be the worst book that your significant other can read and will make your life utterly miserable for the next nine months. It's been three years since I had to deal with this serie's 3rd edition and I still can't stand the sight of it.
It may have been intended as a self-help guide, but its alarmist tone and condescending attitude leads this to act more as a bible for every worst-case scenario imaginable. After spending a few hours perusing this book's contents, your wife, girlfriend, whomever will become so overworked and paranoid that every little ache, pain, and irritation will become a sign of the baby being born with a forked tongue and three heads. The diet your partner will be instructed to keep is impossible for any human being alive to follow. She will be told to try and avoid ... damn near everything it seems like.
I was also incensed that after reading up on the author, all of this "wonderful" information was being brought to me by someone with NO MEDICAL BACKGROUND. If I'm going to want advice on dealing with pregnancy issues, wouldn't I want to consult an expert (i.e. someone with a degree)? Murkoff is no more an expert then I am ...
I'll be blunt, WTEWYE seems to be an EXTREMELY popular gift for someone who's pregnant for the first time and it's probably unavoidable. I came into three copies without any effort at all. I'm not going to stand here and pretend I know of a better source for information either, because (outside of ... oh I don't know ... a doctor) I don't. All I know is that if THIS is the definitive volume on the pregnancy experience, then God help us all.
I absolutely guarantee you, someone your partner knows WILL buy this for her. Your mission is to "lose it." If you're already stuck with it and you can't hide it or burn it, at least do your best to temper its pages with as much perspective as you possibly can. Again, for a first-time mom-to-be, who, frankly, is probably a bit nervous anyway about all the changes her body is going through, all this volume is going to accomplish is completely freaking her out.
Batten down the hatches and break out the antacid my friends, it's gonna be a long nine months
Book Review: Ok...but plenty of reources elsewhere.
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is awesome for the first time baby maker! However, there are so many recource via online, library, etc. SO, if you don't have the money, maximize your other free recources first. I bought this book because I knew my husband wouldn't be doing online research, so instead of PRINTING all kinds of paper, I bought the book and will highlight important stuff for him. :)
Great book...probably the best for first timmers!
Book Review: Don't Have A Baby Without It!
Summary: 5 Stars
Fantastic read! I'm constantly flicking through it but also really good to read from cover to cover or month by month as you progress in your pregnancy!!! GET IT!!!