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Summary: A Vast Exploration
Review: This book is all over the place. It is refreshing to read a guidebook that reflects a vast exploration beyond the prevailing myths about multiple births. I like Noble's free range genius that presents evidence based data, stories, ideas, and an invitation to think outside of fear (and the complicity it engenders in parents of twins and more). HAVING TWINS has courage. The author takes the reader to the primal core and by educating us, more babies can be gently welcomed with love rather than viewed as medical emergencies waiting to happen.
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Summary: Brilliant!!!
Review: This book was like a bible to me during my pregnancy, and now 3 years on I still read parts of it regularly. A really refreshing perspective on multiple pregnancy (not the usual "high risk" doom & gloom), with down to earth info on healthy multiple pregnancy, positive birth experiences, feeding and raising multiples. Covers areas that are completely missed, or only skimmed over in other multiples books, like birth plans, post maturity, making arrangements in the event of loss of a baby, etc. The section on postnatal exercises came in very handy!
This book educates, rather than dictates, empowering the reader to make informed decisions about their maternity care, and what is best for their babies and themselves.
Highly recommended
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Summary: Good firestarter
Review: This book was the most judgemental source of crap I've ever read. Does the author even have children? Rather than providing the pro's and con's to situations, she bashes every aspect of them. Anything that is not her opinion is bad, evil, and wrong. Her biased book has so much non-related informaiton that isn't even helpful. She brings up statistics that aren't even relevant to half of the women reading this book. The only thing it is good for is providing kindling for the fireplace.
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Summary: If I could rate it 0 stars I would
Review: This is a sad excuse for a book on multilple pregnancies. My wife started to read this book and within hours she put it down and was extremely upset. Please do NOT waste your money on this thing!!! Elizabeth Noble goes on and on about each and every horrible thing that can happen with a multiple pregnancy. She also says whatever possible to make the average reader feel extremely guilty for basically everything (i.e. consuming dairy, considering circumcision, using fertility treatments, going to a MD for care instead of a midwife, requesting pain meds during labor, eating produce from a "regular" grocery store-not the whole foods market..and the list goes on.) It is blatently obvious that she has NEVER been pregnant with multiples and probably has had very limited interaction with women who do have multiples. Do yourself a favor and read through the reviws on this book. I should have known something was up when she actually makes reference to the bad reviews on Amazon.com in the actual book!!!
Take a look at the "good" reviews and you will see that the majority of them come from "clinicians" and individuals who appear to not have children!! How do they know how great the advice is if they don't even have twins??? It looks like she had some of her pals type up good reviews because the actual purchasers of this book were slamming it! Save your money and get a pack of diapers instead. You'll need the extra if you really are having multiples!
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Summary: Having twins and feeling guilty about it
Review: This is the worst baby book I have ever read. If you are a vegan, who doesn't believe in having ultrasounds, worries about the repressed memories of your babies during their embryo implantation in your womb, who plans to deliver her multiples totally naturally at home you might like this book. Otherwise, this is the beginning of the guilt you will feel.Ms. Noble also thinks you will cause your child pyschological damage if you have him circumcised. She is against the consumption of cow's milk by anyone (even kids and expecting moms)except cows. She doesn't even acknowledge the option of bottle feeding. As a omnivorous Jew who due to health reasons cannot breast feed I can only say that this is a book designed to make everyone like me feel extremely guilty. Of course, you too can feel guilty if you are not planning to have a completely natural birth experience- preferably at home. I can't remember throwing out a book before, but this one is too awful to donate to the library. What a waste of my money!
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Summary: I wish I had read the reviews before I read this book!
Review: This is, without a doubt, the worst book on twins I have ever read! I would have saved myself a lot of tears and a week of depression had I heeded the warnings in these reviews.
Frankly, I wonder if the reviewers who gave this book a positive review were reading the same book. It is so negative and pessimistic, I felt like Noble was trying to convince me that something would inevitibly go wrong and when it did, it would certainly be my fault. Not the kind of message you need when you are already in an emotional pregnant state of mind!
Do yourself a favor and DO NOT read this book!!!
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Summary: Thank you, Liz!
Review: This revised edition of HAVING TWINS AND MORE covers every base... the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of giving birth to more than one baby at a time. As a longtime friend and colleague of Liz', I hear her voice clearly on every page, speaking with intelligence and concern for the health and well-being of mothers, babies, and families. When I was two days away from the birth of my twins -- 18 years ago -- Liz came to visit and gave me the best foot and leg massage ever (the babies were big and pressing down mightily on my pelvis and legs...there was so much fluid accumulated around my ankles that it felt like I had filled water balloons inside my skin... it even sloshed a little when I walked!). Unfortunately, buying this book doesn't get you a home visit from Liz, but it's the next best thing, filled with facts, figures, and insight into STAYING WELL during multiple pregnancy that you are not likely to find in any other book.
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Summary: A little weird....
Review: Unless you live in a hippie commune I suggest you skip over the sections on nutrition during pregnancy and birth and labor. Miss. Noble seems to assume that everyone reading the book is a Vegan, and that everyone wants a completely natural no-interference home birth. She gives completely random "instances" where women have given birth to say quadruplets at home in 1938 Germany, and they did fine so you should to. She neglects to give the statistics on, say, the amount of home births that have gone drastically wrong. She advocates the uses of midwives with multiple pregnancy and even referred to current medicine as "wizardry". She is highly against circumsion and gave extreme instances like some Canadian boy whose penis fell off. The information on carrying multiples and conceiving multiples is interesting, but most of it is preachy and one-sided. Some advice for Miss. Noble (who claims to be presenting all the facts in her introduction)- Why don't you display all the facts and not the ones that support your extremist views on multiple births and pregnancy. This should be an informative book that shows all sides of the issues. I will continue to go to my OB/GYN and drink my morning class of milk, and yes I am getting my son circumsized.
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Summary: Very slanted point of view
Review: Very excited at expecting twins. I bought this book. The very next day I wanted to return it. Although I am a mother who breastfeed my daughter for a year and a half , and used a sling more often than a carriage and am personally against circumcision, I found the author' opinions (and that's exactly what this book is full of) to be radically left wing and skewed. The chapter on Surviving Twins was promising to be an interesting read. And it was, but the parts where she describes what appears to be regression hypnosis of her patients to bring them back to an embryonic stage to deal with their vanishing twin was a bit far fetched for me. It all had a carnival charlatan feel to me.
The chapter on nutrition was informative, but Noble's stance on diary is a bit extreme in my opinion as is her blatant promotion of a vegan diet. As an RN who has taken several nutrition courses, I was puzzled as to how Noble came to some of the conculsions she had. Although, I will say that her charts of vitamin, mineral and protein content of various foods was informative, I could've found that info in any basic nutrition book.
Overall, this book was a disappointment to me. I bought it because I thought it would be an informative book full of advice and witty stories of twins...and it was, it was just advice I don't feel comfortable following.
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Summary: Some interesting info under a lot of crazy talk
Review: While this book does provide some valuable information, it seems to me that the author can't resist throwing in a lot of opinion and judgment under the guise of fact. Her off the wall blanket statements can be quite offensive and detract from the points in the book that look as though they might otherwise have been useful. With every Say "NO!" to dairy, stop the mutilation of our boys through circumcision, or the doctors are ruining your pregnancy- I lost more faith in this author. I wish that I had chosen another book or read the reviews before I purchased this one.
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