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Summary: Great daily resource
Review: This is an excellent resource, my husband and I refer to it daily. We use it in conjunction with the book "From Conception to Birth" so we can also see the baby's development in images. Both books use the same method of "counting", which is starting from the date of conception, so the books match up precisely. I really don't understand the negative reviews of this book based on confusion about the method of counting. It is based on the due date of the baby, and you write in each date yourself. So you only need to look up the current date to find the entry you should be reading. I also don't understand the review that states that the author says the first trimester lasts 15 weeks. She must have a different version of the book, mine says the second trimester starts after week 12. I have been using this book for 2 months and so far I have found that the information correlates to other resources that I use. I recommend taking a look at this book. If you're looking for a journal that you can write more in, I would find a pretty blank book to supplement this.
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Summary: LOVED IT SO MUCH, BOUGHT IT FOR SEVERAL FRIENDS!
Review: I thought this book was so amazing, I bought it for many of my friends when they announced that they were accpecting a baby and they also have confessed to picking it up a few times a day. I'm not much of a "journal writer" so I was glad that the book isn't meant for just that as the title may suggest. In fact, it's more of a journal that is already written on the progress of the development of the baby.
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Summary: Finally, a book I could relate to.
Review: This book was very informative without giving us information overload. Some of the other books told us What to Expect was going to be scary. This book did not.
I used this book throughout both my pregnancies. At the end of each week, I would read the week that had past aloud to my husband. We never read forward. Each symptom the book said I was to have that week, I had had.
The descriptions of the fetus' development throughout the pregnancy were written in a language that we could understand and relate to. I've bought this book for many pregnant friends.
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Summary: Must-have for every pregnant woman!
Review: I LOVED this book! It can be hard sometimes to conceptualize what's going on inside of you when you're pregnant, and this book made everything seem so real. It was wonderful to have a little update to read on the baby's progress day-to-day. My husband and I read it together each night before bed- as a father-to-be, it helped him feel involved, and helped him form a bond with our baby. It also provided us with lots of great opportunity for discussion of the facts, the myths, and the fears of the whole amazing process. I give this as a gift to every pregnant woman I know!
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Summary: I love this book!
Review: I really love this book -- not as a journal so much as a resource. My husband and I read it together each morning to hear "what's happening with the baby today" and get food suggestions etc. To address other reviewers' mention of its drawbacks: - It doesn't have a whole lot of room for writing. I keep a separate journal and only record my basic thoughts specifially about pregnancy in this one. However, the first trimester I was so tired it was a relief to see a finite amount of writing space! - The spiral binding. Personally, I LOVE that. I keep it open to the page we're on, and it stays that way till we're on the next page. Not closing it every day seems to really help with wear and tear. - Accuracy of information. As long as you think of it as a guideline, and not cast in stone, it's fine. You know that this feature or that organ may not REALLY be developing that very exact day, but it gives you something to think about, which is more than I can say for some books I've seen. Other things I really like: you can write in the date of conception and work forward from there, so you know that you have "175 days to go!" on a particular day. Even though the likelihood of hitting that exact date is small, it's still nice to have a reference number. Also, the quotes at the bottom of each page are fun, the weight/waist reminders keep you recording your info, and the reading is relatively easy. Other books tell you all the things that can go wrong (sometimes without offering any solutions) or demand that you eat this thing or that. This book just gives you a little gift to open each day: a glimpse at the development of your child, plus a place to write your reactions! I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Not a Fan of this Book
Review: This book was a disappointment for me. One of my complaints was that the binding (it is spiral-bound, like a notebook) kept opening up and falling apart. I wish I had known this before I bought it. I constantly had my husband getting his pliers out to fix it for me! Additionally, even though this book is supposedly a "journal," there is barely any room to write your thoughts, ideas, or experiences. Instead of providing writing space for each day, you are given a 3 inch lined blank spot for each four days to write something. Not my idea of a journal. Some people may enjoy the day-by-day descriptions of what is happening inside you, but I found a few of them to be ridiculous assumptions. For example, on the day of your due date, it says that your baby weighs 7 1/3 pounds and will measure at least 15 inches. Statements like that made me feel that most of the blow-by-blow information was a 'guesstimate' at best, which decreased my enjoyment.
Instead, I would recommend "What to Expect When You're Expecting," "Pregnancy for Dummies," or even "The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy" (if you are looking for something fun).
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Summary: Great Book!!!!!!
Review: This book really is the best! It tells you great Food Facts and Child Care Facts underneath what happens to you and your baby every day. Though it doesn't have pictures it describes in detail what is happening in your body and to your baby. I highly enjoyed this book and think that others will too.
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Summary: Wouldn't buy it again
Review: I should have spent more time looking through this book in the store before I purchased it. My primary complaint is that virtually nothing in this book matches up with anything you will read in any other resource about your pregnancy. I find it difficult to believe that everyone else is wrong and this woman is right. For example, according to the author, your first trimester lasts through the 15th week. I don't care when you start counting (ie LMP or conception) it's impossible arrive at the calculation that one-third of a human pregnancy is 15 weeks. In my opinion, the whole "day-by-day" concept useless if you're not counting correctly. I also found the information about what is taking place in the mother's body to be sorely lacking. After the umpteenth admonition to eat healthy foods and not gain too much weight, I was ready to move on to other topics -- how about emotional changes, skin changes, sleeping challenges, aches and pains or exercise? There is more to being pregnant than my waist measurement and weight (which she'll have you record twice weekly...) If you get this as a gift, I guess it's OK not to give it back... but I certainly wouldn't actually spend money on it if I hadn't already.
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Summary: I think everyone should have this book.
Review: The day I found out I was pregnant I bought this book. Being just a few weeks along I found it incredibly informative for all of the new changes that were happening with me and the baby.
It gives you a wonderful desciption of the day to day development of the new baby. My husband and I found it to be quite fascinating to follow along each day with all of the amazing changes that would happen overnight. Since so much of the development happens early on I don't know how interesting someone would find it if they are already months into their pregnancy. I had a fairly accurate idea about date of conception and found it to be almost exactly accurate as to the new changes I would find in my own body. I highly recommend this book to all pregnant women.
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Summary: Had a lot of fun
Review: I really enjoyed this journal. It is not meant to be a book about pregnancy. It is more of a journal for you to keep notes about your pregnancy with little information tidbits written out every now and then within the book. Now that our baby is 3 months old, my husband and I have enjoyed going back and reading through some of my writings. It's a lot of fun and well worth it, not only for yourself but perhaps as a keepsake for the baby you are journaling about!
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