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Summary: As a WOMAN this was the best pregnancy book I read!
Review: Thank you James Barron for such an insightful view of pregnancy. As a woman this was the best book I read. It is clever and witty while being realistic and informative. It is the one book that I handed my husband and said, "Read this and memorize it!!" It is something that I love to refer back to and I constantly will say to my husband, "I think you need to check page... again." I can't recommend this book strongly enough. Enjoy and be sure to tell a friend about it!
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Summary: Every expectant father should read this book!
Review: Thank you, James Barron, for writing this book! I bought it for my husband and read it first. I gave it to him with significant pages bookmarked. He loved it. I loved it. I am going to buy him James' other book, too!
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Summary: for Neanderthals only
Review: The one surprising thing about this book is the skill with which the author manages to fit in every possible gender stereotype from the fifties and still have it published in the nineties. If you're looking for sexist jokes on how the baby will ruin both your sex life and your golf game, then this book may be for you. If you're looking for advice on how to be a good dad and support your partner through a very demanding time, then you're better off looking elsewhere.
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Summary: Not What I Expected
Review: The reviews both by the author and other readers make this sound like a humorous and witty book. I, however, was offended by some of the insensitive and profane humor. There are other books available that make light of the sometimes tense but often wonderous experience of pregnancy without debasing either of the future parents. It certainly didn't teach me anything and I was embarrassed to share some of it with my partner. This is not a book to be proud of owning. I don't recommend it.
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Summary: Quick reading, great tips for father's to be
Review: This book does not claim to be a medical reference for fathers. It is merely a man's perspective of his pregnant wife. My husband and I really enjoyed reading this book at night while lying in bed. It was a great way for him to get to know some of the things that I am going through in my pregnancy, plus it was a time of bonding for us. I recommend this book to all expectant fathers. You will appreciate the mother of your future child more, you will learn ways to spoil her, and reading this together will let her see that you are involved in the pregnancy.
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Summary: Great book - fun to read!
Review: This book is packed with great advice for dads-to-be! It's fun for moms-to-be to read also! I recommend it for any expectant parents.
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Summary: Avoid at all cost
Review: This book starts out by stating that it was written to fill some sort of gap in pregnancy literature for men. This was the third or so similar book I had read that claimed this, so I'm not so sure this is an accurate claim.Even if I choose to believe the author wrote this in good faith, I found it juvenile and condescending. There is little useful information within, and I found much of the information purely subjective (or misleading) and therefore useless for the most part. There are MANY better books out there for the father to be, that treat you as an adult (for example, see Curtis and Schuler). The humour in this book is premeditated, and many of the little anecdotes seem to be designed to prove the manhood of the father to the reader (although it comes off quite neurotic). Good points: It is short (although I wish I had that hour of my life back).
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Summary: You Need This Book
Review: This book was a gift and unfortunately it arrived too late. Its not that my wife had already given birth, it is because my wife single handily tried to increase the revenue projections of Amazon by purchasing every known book about pregnancy that was written in English. I even think she brought a few books written in Spanish thinking she could translate them, but that is another story. So armed with a city library size collection of books she dug into them like a dieter at Dairy Queen, and I being the caring new age man I am, patently listened to each fact, story and antidote (regardless of the number of times they were told). Thus when I was given this book during the fourth month I thought I had a pretty good understanding of what was going on. My assumption proved correct. This is a well written and funny book that all men should get before the pregnancy starts, because each day into the pregnancy usually brings on something new that this book would have warned and prepared you for. If I had read the book before my wife engaged in the home study Ph.D. program on pregnancy, then I would have been able to better engage in conversations with her on the topics at hand instead of just stilling there in a permanent state of confusion. Buy the book then for no other reason that you can not seam so dumb when your wife starts to talk to you about what is happen on week 15 and 2 days.
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Summary: Its horrible!!!
Review: This book was absolutely horrible. Its just a guy bragging about how great he is. It won't teach you anything you didn't already know. I definitely don't suggest wasting your money on it.
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Summary: A collection of meaningless tripe and silly anecdotes
Review: This book was by far the most useless of the pregnancy books I read when my wife became pregnant. Instead of offering useful tips and factual information, the author has filled this tome with his nauseating reminiscences of his own insipid experiences. Case in point: He makes a very big deal about how the first time a father sees the baby in a sonogram, you probably won't be able to tell what's what, but you should at all costs act like you're seeing something to avoid offending your wife. How ridiculous and trivial. When we had our first sonogram, we both had a good laugh over the fact that it could have been random computer generated dots for all we could see. It was a fun, warm moment, and one which will vary for each set of parents. In many other instances, the author casually assumes that every parent and every pregnacny that ever occurs, anywhere, is going to be exactly like his experiences, and goes on to formulate as holy scripture dozens of irrelevant things he did during his wife's pregnancy. When I bought this book, I had no idea that the author would hone in on such irrelevant details and offer his incorrect assumptions as rules written in stone. If I could give this book less stars, I would. It doesn't deserve one out of five stars; it deserves negative three.
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