Your Pregnancy Week by Week, 6th Edition
April 2, 2010 by MyBaby
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- ISBN13: 9780738211091
- Condition: USED – GOOD
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Product Description
It’s here–a fully expanded, updated, and re-designed edition of the best-selling doctor-authored pregnancy book in America!
Your Pregnancy Week by Week is the most medically current and comprehensive pregnancy guide available. Doctors recommend it. Reviewers praise it. Pregnant couples rely on it.
With over 70 new topics covered, and completely updated throughout to keep up with trends, new products, and safety recommendations, this comprehensive, authoritative, and easy-to-use guide includes:
-Detailed descriptions of baby’s developmental milestones each week
-Clear illustrations of how both mother and baby are changing and growing
-Up-to-date information about medical tests and procedures
-Tips on nutrition and lifestyle and the ways actions affect baby
-Safe weekly exercises to help mother stay in shape and comfortable
-Helpful hints for the father-to-be and information on how a pregnancy affects a coupleAmazon.com Review
When you’re pregnant, there is nothing more exciting than keeping up with the drastic changes your body undergoes on a weekly basis. In Your Pregnancy Week by Week, Glade B. Curtis, M.D. (Your Pregnancy Questions and Answers, Your Pregnancy After Thirty) has written a clear, easy to follow guidebook. Each “week” includes information on: How Big Is Your Baby?, How Big Are You?, How Your Baby Is Growing and Developing, Changes in You, How Your Actions Affect Your Baby’s Development, You Should Also Know, and a Tip of the Week. With the exception of the You Should Also Know sections (which sometimes focus on rare problems and concerns), the tone of the book is informative, chatty and reassuring. An extensive, excellent glossary adds value. Your Pregnancy Week by Week seems intended to both simplify and expand on the information an inexperienced or first-time mother-to-be receives from her medical provider. It is especially ideal for very young pregnant women seeking to better understand the changes in their bodies. –Ericka Lutz
Your Pregnancy Week by Week, 6th Edition
Jake's wife on Fri, 2nd Apr 2010 10:00 pm
I appreciated this book solely for its pictures, and for the fact that, even when I was pregnant with my fourth child, and had read at least 20 pregnancy books, I still liked having something week by week to help me get through the monotony of counting weeks.
I got this book for myyy…second pregnancy, I think. I’ve used it every pregnancy hence for the above stated reasons. My first two births were natural only in that they were vaginal. I had almost every kind of intervention there was–pitocin, epidural, AROM, episiotomy. My third I wanted to try to go natural and have a homebirth but after calling every midwife in Syracuse, resorted to just natural. I stayed home till I felt I had to go to the hospital and got there at 8 1/2 cm…my son was born 45 minutes after arrival. I did it. With my fourth, I dug a little deeper and found a homebirth midwife in Ithaca, an hour and a half away, but loved her. I had my son at home in a birthing pool last November. I am now newly pregnant with my fifth, and will not even glance at this book. Why? Because after I had my last child, I was browsing in Borders, saw the revised edition of this book, and immediately picked it up and went to the index to see what he might have to say now about homebirth. It was as though no one would have a homebirth unless it was an emergency, and by purposely doing so, you may be placing your baby in grave danger. It was totally cold and unaccepting of homebirth, and thereby a whole culture of woman caretakers who seek to empower and BLESS a mother in her finest moment, and thereby a whole culture of women who want to be the ones to birth their baby, not be managed and delivered of the baby.
I am a student of midwifery now, I seek to become one, and it is in large part due to the cultural acceptance of medicalized, managed birth. Women need to know about the growing movement of women who are trying to take back birth from the doctors and hospitals, about what their bodies are really capable of in capable hands, and that the birth of your child can be so different than what we think of as normal. Books like this purport the myth that we need doctors and hospitals to have a healthy normal birth, and that anything else is just foolhardy and dangerous. It isn’t so and I’m proof, I’ve been on both extremes.
Don’t buy this book, unless you like being ignorant. Buy a pregnancy book by Sheila Kitzinger, or Ina May Gaskin, or Henci Goer, and at least be educated about this other realm of pregnancy and birth.
I titled this review as such because a doctor seeks to scare you into thinking that you couldn’t do it without him, you’re helpless and stupid. A midwife seeks to empower you, teach you, support you so that you can be the one in control, so that the sense of pride and accomplishment you feel after delivery, is not just in that beautiful angel in your arms, but in what your body and your will and your spirit was able to endure, and achieve, and triumph.
Rating: 2 / 5
Frank Hodgson on Fri, 2nd Apr 2010 11:34 pm
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.
Rating: 5 / 5
Anonymous on Sat, 3rd Apr 2010 1:54 am
I thought this book was great until I got to my 8th week and the book’s 8th week – it is a chapter entirely devoted to miscarriages – what types exist, etc. I threw the book down and vowed never to pick it up again. Why devote a chapter to something so negative during a time where everything should be positive? I am not extremely anxious about my first ultrasound tomorrow thanks to this book that should have put my mind at ease.
Rating: 1 / 5
Alice Fielding on Sat, 3rd Apr 2010 4:42 am
Quote from last page of book:
“Beware of instruction that tells you labor is free of pain, no one really needs a C-section, I.V.s are unnecessary or an episiotomy is foolish. This can create unrealistic expectations for you.”
Need I say more? I’d NEVER want to have kids if this was the only book I read!
Rating: 1 / 5
BlessedCP on Sat, 3rd Apr 2010 5:59 am
Each week starts out explaining physiological changes in the baby, changes you may experience and then describes everything that could possibly go wrong! Who needs that kind-of worry? What a negative way to look at the miracle growing inside you. Pass this one up and find a supportive, celebratory book instead.
Rating: 1 / 5