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Summary: Other Considerations
Review: As background material for this book, the reader is referred to "The Scientist in the Crib" (Dr. Gopnik, et al; Perrenial, 2001). It offers a fresh and detailed evaluation of the language acquisition process by infants. At about 6 months of age, a critical change seems to occur. The specific pronunciation patterns of the language(s) heard begin to be retained in a very focused manner. Also see "The Monday Tape" (The Snow Water Corporation) at Akilo.com for more insight into this process. This audio tape, one of a series, provides multilingual speech patterns for infants. It appears that they should help an infant (birth to age 2) gain good pronunciation skills for many widely used languages.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I think that this book is excellent since it goes week by week instead of month by month. It has excellent pictures and it does talk about things that can go wrong, but every book has something in it about miscarraiges or problems that can occur. I would recommend this book to anyone who is pregnant, especially those like me for the first time.
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Summary: Great Illustrations
Review: I have read just about every pregnancy book and this is by far my favorite. Instead of having a month by month description of what is happening in your body it does it week by week. I loved the illustrations. It shows you week by week what the baby looks like, average weight, what develops that week and average length. I have also found this book to be more informative then most. I had complications with a last pregnancy and with this one. I found that this book tell it like it is and does not sugar coat things.
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Summary: Nice weekly format, but negative and worrisome
Review: The week by week format makes the book easy to read, however I have found many unnecessary and worry-provoking entries which really turned me off from the book. For example, every week has a section "How Your Actions Affect Your Baby's Development". In one of the early weeks, this section is entirely about different types of miscarriage, which made me wonder if Dr. Curtis is somehow implying that all misarriages are caused by women's actions? Further on, there are sonogram pictures of a tumor as well as a knot in the umbilical cord, without any note that such conditions are extremely rare. What the point is of including these anxiety-provoking points, I do not know. As well, Dr. Curtis seems to take a rather traditional medical viewpoint to pregnancy. Overall, I found the book to be more bothersome than helpful, both in its lack of explanation of some dangers and its overabundance of worry-provoking entries. I would not recommend this book.
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Summary: Interesting and informative, but sometimes scary
Review: I bought this book after a friend told me about it, while I was newly pregnant. I really liked the week-to-week pictures of what the baby should look like and the descriptions of what was happening to my body and what to expect at the doctor's office. However, I must agree with some past reviews. This book scared me half to death, which made me seem a little crazy every time I went to the doctor with a ton of questions in my hand. It seems like the author wants to outweigh all of the good with what bad things can happen too, but to me, there were a lot of bad things that could happen every week of my pregnancy, without me knowing about them at all. Also, I had to look things up in the back and then hunt them down in the book to read about them, since each "problem" is assigned a specific week. The concept is a good one: look at how the baby is developing each week, by looking at a drawing and also how you should be feeling. I still recommend this book to pregnant friends and tell them how much it helped me. However, I think it would have been better if there had just been one chapter about things that could go wrong, instead of having a few things every week to worry about!
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Summary: The Book that Scares YOU!
Review: Hi, This book is a good book to read every week with the What to Expect Book, however, I would like to warn that every week there is something listed of what can go wrong! As if you don't have those thoughts going through your heard anyway, this book with confirm them. Sometimes they are totally unnecessary worries too like cancer in pregnancy, knot in the umbilical cord. I have used the book in my first pregnancy and I am now in my second and I read it,because it has some helpful stuff in about how much the baby weighs, what you should weigh, how the development of the baby however, I would warn to read it and try not to worry too much by the worrisome thoughts the book puts in your head. Always discuss with your Doctor any concerns anyway. Best Wishes!
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Summary: Love It
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I liked how it listed things week by week, versus month by month. Now pregnant with my second, I'm enjoying it once again! It was, by far, my favorite pregnancy book and the only one I held on to after my first pregnancy.
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Summary: Must have Book!!
Review: I loved everythig about this book look at the title to see what it is about. The book gives pictures of your child from just a few weeks conceived. You can watch him or her grow from the time they look like a reptile with a tail until they look like the baby you will give birth to. Wonderful book that deals with everday concerns as well as potential problems. Tells you little things like when your baby is getting eyelashes or fingernails or toes. Great to keep you motivated.
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Summary: Note to Mom of 5 Reviewer - Check The Index!
Review: Yes, the material in this book is organized week-by-week, and yes, you may not experience the symptoms described in the exact week they're discussed - but it seems to me that's what the index is for! Just look it up! This book is the only one I've seen so far that focuses on incremental changes in the baby's development each week, and that alone sets it apart from the rest of the books on this topic. I recommend it.
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Summary: Better than "What To Expect when your Expecting"
Review: If you're like me, you've read everything you can get your hands on while pregnant. Throughout my pregnancy, this is the one book I keep going back to. I like tht each week Dr. Curtis provides an expectation of where you should be on weight gain and what your baby is up to. The book is laid out in an excellent format. This book is even better than "What to Expect While Your Expecting" even though you hear more about that book.
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