The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy

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Summary: OVERDUE!
Review: This book is long overdue - much like my baby was! I found this book to be informative, utterly hilarious and right on the money. Every time I picked it up I felt like I was talking to my closest friend. That is the first time I have ever felt that while reading a book

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Summary: Informative and amusing. I laughed out loud!
Review: This is a wonderful book on the experience of pregnancy, from the mother-to-be's viewpoint. It bashes myths with gleeful abandon, while imparting a full body of knowledge about this glorious but confusing time of our lives. This is one book that is genuinely fun to read. I laughed out loud throughout each delightful chapter. (Peggy Dorf, Vancouver, WA)

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Summary: just get it!
Review: this is a must for every expectant mommy. just like staydol, it takes the edge off. great laughs when you are feeling a little tense about the whole body changing event. my husband thought it was male bashing, so he wasn't laughing too much. i went al' natural with kass (not that i wanted to as soon as the "real" contractions started) and it was fine. my girlfriend had a c section and she swelled up like a balloon. major pain for her. all in all, it is a fab book. loaned it out twice and it's on it's way out again! have fun! kitt

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Summary: Now I don't feel alone. I loved this book
Review: After reading all the "perfect pregnacy" books out there, none of them seemed to apply to me and what I was feeling and going through. I read this book and realized that I was not alone and what I was feeling and not feeling was normal. I have since given this book to all my friends who have become pregnant and they also loved it. I just wish this book was around when I had my 13 year son. It would have saved me alot of embarassment (as it tells it like it REALLY is)! My husband also appreciated it. We both got a belly laught out of it. Now whenever I need a laugh or just a reminder I'm not nuts, I open this book.

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Summary: Finally!!! I Love This Book!!!
Review: I think that I've probably read all the recomended stuff. All the factual,common,bland,doctor stuff. Now I have finally found a book that does not scare you into submission! Vicki gives just enough humor to make a scary, and somewhat akward, period in a womans life, so much more enjoyable. Her insight and experience is greatly appreciated and sorely needed. I'm recomending it to all my friends! Thanks Vicki!!

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Summary: What a relief!
Review: Before coming across Iovine's book, I was growing increasingly frustrated by what I was finding on the pregnancy shelves--a section heavy with books of the terrifying (and haphazardly researched) truths variety sharing space with the blandly uninformative. As someone who has recently moved away from family and friends, I found Vicky Iovine's more personal approach a comfort, a good laugh, and a picture of pregnancy I could relate to. The Girlfriends' Guide also offered jargon-free descriptions of diagnostic tests, (what they feel like, what the author and her friends experienced), as well as advice on maternity clothes, baby shopping, sex, and countless other details I simply didn't find elsewhere. Of course, I go to other sources (like my doctor) for health-related questions, as the author herself suggests. But this little book has stayed with me, growing increasingly dog-eared through the spring and summer months, and I would heartily recommend it to anyone in search of a friend who has been through it all before

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Summary: A great antidote to all those "serious" pregnancy books
Review: This book is the only one I've found that actually sounds like it's written by someone I might be friends with. It's the perfect book to pick up when you're tired of all those "pregnancy is the most beautiful, precious, spiritual, etc. etc. time of your life" books and you're just feeling fat, tired, and hormonal. This book reassured me I wasn't a "bad mother" for acknowlodging these feeling. Iovine made me laugh and gave some very practical advice that doctor's never seem to mention

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Summary: Fun, truthful, heart-to-heart for pregnant women.
Review: A terrific book and a must read for any expectant couple! A light-hearted view of the daily "travails" and joys of pregnancy. Vicki Iovine takes an Erma Bombeck approach at the non-medical truths that all expectant couples share. It makes you double over with laughter and is impossible to put down once you get started. Very reassuring for nervous or first-time parents-to-be. Just as the title says, expect to find here all the advice that only girlfriends (and not doctors), have the time to give you.

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Summary: Great for laughs, not for facts.
Review: This book belongs in the humor section, not where someone might actually take it seriously. While the author does point out some of the humorous aspects of pregnancy and birth her general tone is that of negativity. This book is a childbirth educator's or midwife's nightmare, a doctor's dream-come-true.

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Summary: Not for those desiring responsibility in pregnancy.
Review: I found this book to be chatty and fun, but not full of much solid information uponwhich to base informed birth choices. I must say, however, that it doesnot promise to be the birth book for the Earth Mother. If you don't want anepidural, this book is not for you