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Available
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Call number
618.2 Cur
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Publication
Da Capo Press (2004), Edition: 5th, 480 pages
Description
Your Pregnancy Week by Week is the most medically current and comprehensive pregnancy guide available. Doctors recommend it. Reviewers praise it. Pregnant couples rely on it. With more than 70 new topics covered, and completely updated to keep up with trends, new products, and safety recommendations, this comprehensive, authoritative, and easy-to-use sixth edition of the guide includes: detailed descriptions and illustrations of baby's developmental milestones each week, up-to-date information about medical tests and procedures, tips on nutrition and lifestyle and the ways actions affect baby, safe weekly exercises to help mother stay in shape and comfortable, helpful hints for the father-to-be and information on how a pregnancy affects a couple, and more.… (more)
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Original publication date
1989
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LibraryThing member sapsygo
This book should perhaps be subtitled "or everything that can ever go wrong during the course of a pregnancy". I do like the week by week developmental information and diagrams, but I think the author spends a bit too much time on the extremely rare things that can go wrong - especially since this
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is just a general pregnancy book. I guess that's pretty par for course though for mainstream medical/pregnancy books, which I find quite unfortunate. The book could definitely use a much better treatment for natural childbirth - it is only mentioned in week 40, far too late to take a class, think about it, learn anything more, etc. But, again, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised as this is a very mainstream book. Show Less
LibraryThing member HippieLunatic
I much prefer this book to the "What to Expect When you are Expecting" book that is so popular. This book gives you more details and less moments of intense worry about your growing child.
It is also wonderful to be able to read just a few pages to keep up to date on your developing child when your
It is also wonderful to be able to read just a few pages to keep up to date on your developing child when your
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toddler is begging for attention. Show Less
LibraryThing member khiley1
This book will answer any questions that you could possibly have during your prenancy. I read it week by week as I was going through my first pregnancy and I never felt unsure of what was happening. It always reassured me that what I was experiencing was normal. It is a must if you are expecting
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your first. It can answer almost any question that comes to mind each week as you experience the joys and stresses of being pregnant. Show Less
LibraryThing member cherryblossommj
In the category of pregnancy reads, I would say this is one of my favorites and most useful books. In the category of weekly updates of what is most likely happening in your pregnancy, this is by far the best book of it's kind. I had so many recommendations to read a different book that has been
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around, but I am so glad that I found this one, in comparison the "other" book has nothing on this one. When curious about this book in it's republication, I found several negative reviews that talked about how it could cause a person to become neurotic knowing all the possible things that can go wrong. Really, what I can tell you from reading this cover to cover, is that it definitely has information on a bit of everything, most plausible diseases and complications. When I was reading this, if I came to a section on smoking mothers, it obviously did not apply to me, so I skipped over it. Same with other categories such as ethnic specific diseases and so on. I find that this book is a wealth of information. Reading through can tell you plausible things to go wrong, but it also tells you all the miracles that are occurring step by step along the way. There are drawings that show about what the development looks like for your babies stage. There are fabulous exercise suggestions for each week and I would easily say that this is medically current and a comprehensive guide. With my background in nursing I would suggest this book highly. Show Less
LibraryThing member cherryblossommj
In the category of pregnancy reads, I would say this is one of my favorites and most useful books. In the category of weekly updates of what is most likely happening in your pregnancy, this is by far the best book of it's kind. I had so many recommendations to read a different book that has been
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around, but I am so glad that I found this one, in comparison the "other" book has nothing on this one. When curious about this book in it's republication, I found several negative reviews that talked about how it could cause a person to become neurotic knowing all the possible things that can go wrong. Really, what I can tell you from reading this cover to cover, is that it definitely has information on a bit of everything, most plausible diseases and complications. When I was reading this, if I came to a section on smoking mothers, it obviously did not apply to me, so I skipped over it. Same with other categories such as ethnic specific diseases and so on. I find that this book is a wealth of information. Reading through can tell you plausible things to go wrong, but it also tells you all the miracles that are occurring step by step along the way. There are drawings that show about what the development looks like for your babies stage. There are fabulous exercise suggestions for each week and I would easily say that this is medically current and a comprehensive guide. With my background in nursing I would suggest this book highly. Show Less
LibraryThing member kelley.close
LOVED this book. I originally started reading "What to Expect" but was becoming terrified of all the "what ifs" that they mentioned. This book, however, didn't dwell on those too much and provided great information on what I was experiencing and what was coming up. I found it very helpful,
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reassuring, and even loved showing certain topics to my parents. Loved it! Show Less
LibraryThing member elkeursin
I really liked the way this book was organized. I felt that some of the information at the very end was incorrect (i.e. saying that under no circumstances can you eat or drink while in labor when my hospital provides jello and other light snacks to laboring mamas). I also found myself at week 38 of
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my pregnancy and thinking "Geez, what if I go into labor now and I don't make it through weeks 39-41?" Needless to say I quickly finished the book, throwing the weekly routine to the wind. :) Overall, I felt that this book was really good and would recommend this book over the other standard book (What to Expect When You're Expecting) but feel that reading both is really the way to go. Show Less
Pages
480