What to Expect When You're Expecting, 3rd Edition | Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, ...

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	What to Expect When You're Expecting, 3rd Edition Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, ... Workman Publishing Company, 2002 - 624 pages average customer review:based on 1080 reviews view larger image
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I thought it was very informative for me as a first mom & it answered all my questions

This book was great! The reviews about it making people freak out or worry too much. Not me. It just depends upon the person I think. This book answered all my questions & concerns without me calling the doctor over every little change or concern I had throughout my pregnancy. Great book for first time mom's or even a reference book. I say thumbs up.

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very informative, helpful and user-friendly.
a must-have for every couple who plans to have a child.

Answered all my questions

I love this book. I have had 4 kids and have read it with each pregnancy. It discusses every topic I had questions about. Each pregnancy was different and this book was able to reassure me that changes in my body each time around were normal. Pregnancy is scary! But this book is great at preparing you for what to expect. I recommend this book to all my friends.

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not near as good as hyped up to be

in an effort to be fair, this book reads someone who read a few pregnancy books decided to write a pregnancy book.

what i wanted was a description of what my baby and body were going through at least month by month. this book gives you hardly a page of information, half of which is "your baby is getting bigger," and then follows with a "what you probably feel like" section, which reads like "you probably feel sick, or big, and maybe you're hormonal." not only do the month to month descriptions seem partial and bland, but it repeats much of its subject matter the next month, and the next month, so you just skip ahead. but alas--each month section is only a couple pages long, filled up mostly by worries in question answer format that are really out of your hands. i mean, how many times are you going to tell me that "what i should expect at my next visit" is for my doctor to check my height and weight and i could ask them questions? every. month.

also, i've seen some reviews who dub it "non-judgmental," thus giving it an air of professionalism women can trust (and buy). i'm a working class mother and college student. i waitress, and my husband works in an industrial shop. nowhere in this book were concerns that come along with a lower income environment--like cleaning chemicals, or standing on your feet all day, or not having insurance or the capability for maternity leave. i had the feeling that the target audience was upper/middle class women in their 30's, and i often ended up even feeling bad about myself because the book addressed its audience as though it "expected" it to have priviliges it otherwise would think basic health care, education, or money.

not that this would affect you if you are of that group, obviously, or that it should deter you from purchasing the book.
the point is that this book is very well marketed and it would be hard to resist it. however, i also got the book "great expectations: you're all in one resource for pregnancy and childbirth" as a gift and think that book more accurately deserves the title "the pregnancy bible." i read them in tandem, and if you want to give a loved one or yourself something truly educational about the magic growing inside of you, about epidurals and crib safety, i would opt for it rather than "great expectations."

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Good Book... Not For Everyone..

This is a good book for a new mother-to-be, but if you are a worrier, I would definitely not recommend this book. It gives a lot of useful information, but it also talks about what can go wrong in every stage of pregnancy with a lot of detail. If you want to know everything, what is happening when in your body or in your child's, then this is a good book for you.

I think that the information in plain text format would have been better rather than using Question & Answer format.

I used this book with my first pregnancy in 2002, but not with my second one in 2007. I worried a lot about complications during my first and I did not want to experience the same with the second.

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