WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING

Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel

MSRP $14.95, 624 Pages.

Published by Workman.

Advice for parents-to-be.

Introducing a completely Revised & Updated Third Edition of America's bestselling pregnancy book, WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING. Two years in the making, it's a total revision and update.

Responding to the many queries and letters received from readers, WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING, 3rd EDITION address health and medical questions as well as lifestyle concerns.

Incorporating the most recent developments in medicine, the book contains both the most accurate information available, and the most reader-friendly. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING provides expectant parents with a wealth of information on month-by-month development, making love during pregnancy, preparing for labor and delivery, and breastfeeding and bonding afterward.

The 3rd Edition also includes:

- More information on working while pregnant

- More in-depth coverage of complementary and alternative birthing

- An expanded chapter for fathers

- More information on how pregnancy affects your lifestyle

- Greater attention is paid to pre-conception, alternative families, second pregnancies, and HMO'S

- A completely new look at the Best-Odds diet, which is better suited to the needs of busier women with less time.

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Eighteen years after it first hit the shelves and having sold more than 10 million copies, What to Expect When You're Expecting is still on nearly every mother-to-be's reading list. This completely revised and updated edition is packed with answers to hundreds of questions and worries expectant parents may have. The information is presented in a month-by-month format starting with planning a pregnancy and choosing a practitioner, and follows through to six weeks after delivery. Each chapter begins with an explanation of what to expect at a particular month's prenatal visit and a brief description of how mom and baby are growing and changing before getting to the heart of the matter: What You May Be Concerned About. Topics are presented as questions ranging from "Should I be taking vitamins?" to "What if I forget everything I learn in childbirth education class?" to "Will I be able to breastfeed?" The answers are generally reassuring and provide enough information to soothe a worried mom between prenatal visits. Despite the reassuring answers, however, the sheer volume of worries discussed may alarm an otherwise calm mom-to-be.

The book also features a complete nutrition plan (though many women may find it difficult to follow), a special chapter just for expectant dads, and extensive information about dealing with minor illnesses, chronic conditions, and pregnancy complications. What to Expect has guided countless women through their pregnancies and makes an informative addition to the mainstream pregnancy and childbirth bookshelf. --Jennifer Lindsay

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Customer Reviews

Nice if I would have gotten the item...

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It's a good book, but I never recieved the item so I had to go else where to purchase the book.

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Worst Pregnancy Book Ever

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Worst. Book. Ever. That's really all that needs to be said. Very preachy and makes you worry about everything. Try Sheila Kitzinger's Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin, Gentle Birth Choices by Barbara Harper, or anything else with a positive upbeat tone. What to Expect When You're Expecting was recommended to me during my first pregnancy and it made me worry endlessly. It focuses on negativity and all of the things that could go wrong and speaks very little about the joys and natural wonder of pregnancy and childbirth. Thankfully at some point between my first and second pregnancies, the book got wet and grew mold so I threw it where it belonged all along - in the trash.

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awful book

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This book is deciedly mainstream, offering no advice to families choosing natural pregnancy, birth, or parenting.

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I wasn't really expecting THIS!

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A clear, concise and invaluable resource for anyone who is expecting. I found the prequel, What Not to Expect When You Are Not Expecting to be much more informative and useful. This weighty tomb covers absolutely everything you could not expect when you are not expecting a baby to burst forth from your wife's nether regions. You wouldn't expect grasshoppers, beetroot farmers or the planet Mars! Yet all this and more get their own chapters with diagrams, maps and instructions included. A helpful hologram of John Cleese on the cover helps set the mood of this joyous book.

The sequel, What to Expect When Expected to be Expecting is a great source of inspiration to those who are being pressured into becoming pregnant by annoying in-laws.

I really EXPECT you will get a KICK out of this book.

8 Thumbs.

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AWESOME!

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this book is excellent even for those of us who are still just thinking about having a baby its really informative and really helpful. If that for those of us who are not yet expecting i can imagine what it does for those who are. Excellent book to own completely recommendable.

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