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Summary: What Every Expantant Father Should Read
Review: A tremendous wealth of information, this book is logically organized by month and covers "what's going on" with not only expectant fathers, but mothers and babies-to-be as well. The book gives sound factual information, excellent advice for just about every scenario surrounding how pregnancy affects fathers-to-be, and allows the reader to not only set aside misgivings about the many unknowns of this "new" experience but helps fathers get excited about and truly become part of the experience. A definite must read for fathers-to-be!
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Summary: Unexpected treat
Review: I have several maternity books. I bought this one so that my husband could more fully participate in our pregnancy. (Unfortunatly, I can't get him to read it or anything else for that matter.) I read it and was suprised to find that it is the best maternity book we own. I found more useful information in this book than any of the others I've read. I highly recommend this to anyone in their first pregnancy.
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Summary: Best book for him we've read yet!
Review: My husband and I are now expecting, and I bought this book for him a few months before we actually got pregnant. Having read it myself, I think it's one of the best guides for us on the market today. Not only does it have a very easy format to follow and plenty of humor to keep him interested, but it also touches on just about every concern for expecting parents, even adoptive ones. It's amazing what this book has done for our peace of mind -- hey, even *I* am keeping tabs with it.
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Summary: A fun yet informative read.
Review: I was so impressed with this book, that I bought the next edition when my wife was pregnant with our second child. Brott has a way with words that is informative and helpful, yet lightened by his keen sense of humor. I'd recommend this to anyone. A truly enjoyable read.
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Summary: Pregnant? Get this for your husband NOW!!
Review: My husband wasn't interested at all in reading anything about my pregnancy. I marked passages out of some of the books I have but I have to admit I'm not surprised that he didn't read them--not a lot there. But when my mom got him this book he changed completely. He'd sit over there on his side of the bed and read and chuckle and not and then we'd have these really amazing conversations about what he was feeling about becoming a dad. Knowing that he cared so much really helped me to be able to talk to him about what I was feeling too. What was really interesting was that he seemed to be having so much fun that I started reading this book too. I learned so much about him and about what men are thinking about as they become fathers. I credit this book not only for bringing out the great dad in my husband (I knew it was there all along) but for making our marriage better too. Sounds like a lot but it's totally true.
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Summary: This is the ONLY book to buy for expectant dads
Review: My wife just had our first child a few months ago. While she was pregnant two of our friends gave me copies of The Expectant Father, which they recommended highly. I have to agree. I'd been reading my wife's pregnancy books, which were absolutely useless--they barely mentioned dads at all except to say that I should be sensitive to my wife's needs, which I already knew. And I'd checked out a few of the other pregnancy books for dads but they were so condescending and insulting that I practically gave up reading altogether. This book is completely different. It deals with men's concers in a straightforward, sensitive, funny way. It's filled with very insightful information that helped me make sense of the feelings I was having during my wife's pregnancy and activities that I could do to stay involved. It's not always easy to take the stand to be an involved dad and this book helped me realize that I wasn't alone in what I was going through. I know that this book has helped me be a better father than I ever would have before. I'll be giving it to all my buddies whose wives are expectant. AND, I've already started the next book in the series, The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year. It's great too!
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Summary: Men aren't this stupid
Review: Yet another book that depicts men as completely incapable of the most basic, common sense activities related to being a husband and father. Are men really this stupid? This book does little that can't easily be accomplished with open and honest communication with your spouse (which I know is a lot more difficult during the 9 months of elevated hormone levels).
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Summary: It didn't work
Review: I bought one of these for my husband who is, to say the least, not very good at emotional things. He found it condescending and wouldn't read it even though he really needs to follow some of the advice (i.e. He could send out for a pizza instead of me eating cold cereal for dinner because I don't have enough energy for anythng else.) It's well intentioned but the guys who could use this advice probably won't read it.
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Summary: A good book for fathers-to-be
Review: My (expecting, for the first time) wife got this book for me to read. It turned out to be a very informative tool. The book is divided up into sections that correlate to the different months of the wife's pregnancy, plus there's a section on the post-birth period. The book gives you an idea of what to expect each step along the way, and brings up things to discuss with your spouse that you might not have thought of before. It also brings up things to discuss with your doctor. I'd recommend that expectant fathers read this book early in the pregnancy, to get a good idea of what's ahead. I think the author did a good job of giving new dads a lot of pointers that will be very helpful.
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Summary: What a load of garbage
Review: This book is for complete morons.
If you need a book to explain to you that you will soon no longer be the center of your pregnant wife's universe, you need some serious counseling.
What a bunch of garbage. I am embarassed that I actually read part of this book -- thankfully, it was a hand-me-down and I did not contribute to the author's pocketbook.
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