What to Expect When You’re Expecting, by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel, is a comprehensive guide to the daily ins and outs of pregnancy. Published by Workman Publishing in 2008, this fourth edition is up-to-date with the latest on pregnancy. Addressing the concerns of every pregnant woman, and even concerns that pregnant ladies may not realize they have, this helpful pregnancy guide has something for everyone.
Pregnancy Month by Month and Week by Week
What to Expect When You’re Expecting carefully details the growth and development of the baby, and changes in a mother’s body during each month, and each separate week of pregnancy, making this book a useful daily or monthly tool.
Along with information on the progress of both the baby and the mother, each monthly outline includes information on pregnancy issues pertaining to that month, and accompanying practical advice. It is especially good for first-time mothers, not only because it has information these moms have yet to know from experience, but because of the overall reassuring tone and light approach to serious issues.
What to Expect When You’re Expecting addresses so many pregnancy concerns, including some that pregnant women, especially first-time moms, may not realize are concerns until they read about it. From itchy bellies to tiredness, to weight gain, to trouble sleeping, whatever the issue, this pregnancy guide has information and sound advice, including the consultation of a practitioner. Moreover, the advice is often accompanied by several diagrams that are a helpful visual aid.
After the Baby’s Born
What to Expect When You’re Expecting not only guides a pregnant couple through all nine months and each separate week of pregnancy, but continues the guide through labor, delivery, and the first six weeks of postpartum. Moreover, the guide includes helpful information for multiple deliveries, difficult pregnancies, miscarriages, and new fathers. With something for everyone, What to Expect When You’re Expecting is written with humor and down-to-earth honesty that makes it an engaging read. Complete with in-text cross-references and a full index, this book can also be used simply as a reference guide.
With this complete package of information and advice, What to Expect When You’re Expecting works to guide, congratulate, and encourage new mothers and fathers in a way that makes the pregnancy feel like an adventure, and perhaps a scary one. This book is not, however, a medical book, and appropriately advocates consulting a care provider on many concerns. For an anxious person, this book can bring to mind issues that would otherwise not have been concerns, and those concerns should be discussed with a midwife or doctor. What to Expect When You're Expecting does not, and should not, replace a midwife! But it can be a useful reference guide.
Heidi Murkoff’s and Sharon Mazel’s best-selling pregnancy guide book, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, works as a great resource for both expectant moms and dads.
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Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel. What to Expect When You’re Expecting. Workman Publishing. New York. 2008.
Michelle Wright - Michelle is an avid reader and writer, with a focus on book, film and music reviews, gluten free recipes, and fiction writing "how-tos."
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