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Summary: The best pregnancy / infant care book
Review: In preparation for the arrival of our twin boys we purchased over 20 books covering a wide range of pregnancy, infant care, and infant development topics. Sadly many are subjective, largely anecdotal, or have axes to grind. This book on the other hand is comprehensive and objective. Our boys are 4 months old now -- over the last year this book has provided easy to find and uncolored information covering our many questions. If we were to do it again and could only have one book, this would be it.
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Summary: Valuable, but scary.
Review: Lots of medical advice -- including some very detailed descriptions of routine tests and procedures; it seems to be designed to help those folks who are well educated in a field other than medicine figure out exactly what our obstetricians are saying. Because this is a medical book, there's naturally a lot of focus on the things that require medical intervention -- including detailed descriptions of some genuinely frightening complications of pregnancy. There's a lot in here that's good to know about, but you might want to supplement it with a more chatty, user-friendly, encouraging sort of book.
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Summary: Outdated but still useful.
Review: Needs a new edition, but still good pictures and advice.
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Summary: but why buy it?
Review: State Farm Insurance will send you one for FREE!
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Summary: Wife loved this, I wanted something lighter
Review: This book has it all. Maybe even too much of it all. My wife loved it, but I confess to liking Breathe, A Guy's Guide to Pregnancy. That had no useful advice, but its laugh per page ratio made up for the difference. I recommend getting both books. The Mayo book for real reading. Breathe for taking a break.
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Summary: Never mind the textbooks, get a friend's guide
Review: This book is generally well-written and fairly comprehensive. It reads however like a textbook for parents. Get 'A best friend's guide to pregnancy' for a better, more humorous look at the realities of the big-belly days. Some basic elements were not well covered: such as 'false labor'. The guide to developmental stages of the newborn is useful. I would recommend this book but not as your only tome on this fantastic experience.
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Summary: very helpful book
Review: This book really covers everything. This is the only book you need, though I had every one imaginable!
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Summary: very helpful book
Review: This book really covers everything. This is the only book you need, though I had every one imaginable!
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Summary: Best book for the expecting parents!!
Review: This book takes you through pregnancy step by step. The only book to grab my husbands attention! The month by month layout gives a great overview of what to expect and when to expect it. It's like reading your personal nine month biography.
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Summary: Not bad..
Review: This is a big heavy book, full of lots of information. But as other posters have mentioned, it is a bit outdated. It calls Norplant and Depo "New", when it has been around for awhile now. The pictures are a little outdated. I liked Miriam Stoppards "Conception, Pregnancy and Birth" for its pictures and brief look at topics. I will use this one a reference, but some of the sections need a complete overhaul.
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