What to Eat When You're Expecting

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Summary: Excellent advice for good health in general
Review: When I got this book, I had already been changing my diet around. Healthy eating gave me more energy and helped me fight off colds and flus more quickly. I just found out that I am pregnant, and my body feels very prepared to handle the challenges ahead. I think the diet suggested by this book is good for everyone.

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Summary: Forget about morning sickness, this book will make you puke!
Review: The authors have managed to write a book that is highly opinionated and contradictory. Some of my favorite examples include, eat lots of protein as found in meat, but if you eat it, you may expose your baby to chemicals and hormones. Eat lots of fruit, but scrub everything first with soap and water and then peel all fruit so you don't expose your baby to more harmful chemicals. And my all time favorite, don't eat any sweets or bad foods, but if you absolutely must, you bad, selfish, weak person, limit them to once a week. This includes a piece of white bread, an ice cream cone, or a muffin made with sugar and less-refined grains. Being pregnant is to be paranoid enough. These women are alarmists. If you add wheat germ to your meals, snack on hard boiled eggs and fruit, and freeze yogurt into popsicles as a treat, you can save your money and buy something cute for your baby instead.

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Summary: WHAT TO EAT WHILE EXPECTING
Review: IM VERY SICK ALL THE TIME. SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE GIVING UP IT IS SO HARD TO FOCUS WHEN I THIS SICK I CANT DO ANYTHING I HAVE A HUSBAND AND A 10 YEAR OLD THAT NEED MY ATTENTION ALSO WHAT DO RECOMMEND FOR THIS

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Summary: Excellent reference source for healthy eating
Review: This book is a valuable source of information on health and nutrition for pregnant women. The authors are definitely extreme in their recommendations, but so what!! If you are looking for someone to tell you that ice cream, cheeseburgers, and lattes are good for your baby, then look elsewhere. Here is a diet to whick pregnant women can aspire, and feel proud even if they follow it loosely. If you tend to believe everything you read, then this book will probably frustrate you. If you choose to use this book as a tool to assist you during your pregnancy, then it will probably delight you. Even if you are not a vegetarian, check out Mollie Katzen's vegetarian cookbooks and use them in conjunction with this one. Her recipes are amazing and delicious! If you supplement her recipes with occasional poultry and fish, you will have no problem meeting the Eisenberg's dietary requirements.

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Summary: Do and Dont's of Eating when you're pregnant
Review: Awesome book!!! Goes into detail about why you should and shouldn't eat certain foods. Book also has recipes for good nutritious meals. This book covers diet in more depth than your average pregnancy book about nutrition, which will cover it in a single chapter. This one covers it thoroughly! A must-have for anyone fanatical about their baby.

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Summary: Do you live in the real world?
Review: I am a physician and while eating healthy is a very important aspect of your pregnancy, these women will make you crazy trying to follow their very strict diet. Come on, no sweets! I hope anyone who reads this book will use their common sense and take the writers' recommendations with a grain of salt. Pregnancy is not a time to put yourself on a strict diet. Eat healthy and enjoy your pregnancy.

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Summary: The authors don't live in the real world
Review: Even the most perfect, dedicated mom-to-be couldn't follow half the recommendations in this book. My doctor laughed when I asked her about some of the "rules". It is unrealistically strict to the point of paranoia. Still, if your goal is to be the most educated mom and then make your own choices about what to do and not do, this book IS extremely good. Ignore the unproven or the theoretical and focus on the real, proven issues. Remember women have been having babies since the beginning of time. It doesn't have to be this hard.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I purchased this book after my first pregnancy, which I lost at full term due to undiagnosed toxemia. This book gives great advise on how to have a healthy baby. Some comments are that it is hard to follow and too strict, but when it come to your babies life and yours whats nine months of following a strict diet. I am currently on this diet and plan to become pregnant again shortly. This book has great ideas and principles for a healthy lifestyle not just in pregnancy.

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Summary: Only a saint could follow it. . .
Review: It was a very difficult diet to follow, and this from someone who was already seeing a nutritionist during pregnancy. If it had MORE recipies to help you eat the stuff they want you to eat, that would improve the book a great deal. But dont dismiss the herbal tea claims outright. It is very easy to cause an abortion through the right combinations of herbs. I know people who did it on purpose (a combo of certain herbs and vitamins) and have had it happen to me, once, also. Use it for a guideline to help yourself eat healthier, but I cant see anyone following it to the letter.

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Summary: Who can ignore this sound advice?
Review: This book may seem extreme to many but at the core of it is absolutely sound nutritional advice. Having recently suffered a miscarriage I plan to stick to this advice very closely in my next pregnancy. While I don't expect I will follow this 100% all of the time, I plan to follow the simple principle of eating foods as close to there natural state as possible. Great book - Great advice!