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Your Pregnancy Week by Week, 6th Edition (Your Pregnancy Series)
written by Glade B. Curtis, Judith Schuler
Studio : Da Capo Press
by Da Capo Press
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Released : 2007-12-03
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780738211091
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 387 reviews)
List Price : $15.95
Our Price : $6.97
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Product Description |
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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 couple |
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Americancivilwar.com Review |
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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 |
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Great book for expectant Moms! |
My sister got me this book when I told her I was pregnant because she had used it with both of hers. It's great! It not only gives you the average stats for yourself and the baby at each week, but also tells you tests that the doctor may perform/suggest at your next appointment and gives you a clue as to what they are.
I noticed that most of the negative reviews for this book focused on the fact that it mentions things that could go wrong/possible negatives. Well, as a medical professional, I can tell you that pregnancy has risks and there's no way around that. This book is great at outlining those risks and letting you know symptoms of possible problems you may have so that you know whether to go to the doctor. I think that this is more of a help than anything. |
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Terrible-Depressing book-don't buy it |
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This book is terrible, depressing and fills your head with doubts and problems. There is hardly a positive note, the doctor is a hypochondriac at best and every week (save for 3 or 4) has some horrible disease that your baby could get. I am not exaggerating, it is that bad. I know there can be concerns and problems do happen, but for a weekly pregnancy book, you should consider something else to keep you positive and upbeat. Pregnancy can be hard enough. |
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Would recomment this book for expecting fathers and mothers. |
We were loaned htis book for our first pregnancy. We recommended this book to every expecting family that asked us about good baby shower gifts. It is neat to see how the baby is developing during the pregnancy and in some ways I think it helped everything seem more real and gave my wife and I a way to connect with the baby more during the pregnancy, and it also has some helpful hints for expecting fathers about what to expect and what you might want to be doing and thinking about during each week. The only negative I can come up with for this book, is that when it suggests fathers start thinking about the safety of the house, it is kind of late inthe pregnancy, and in my mind should already have been taken care of by that point because you never know when the baby is going to come and could very well have come by that point.
As a kind of companion to this book, I recommend the pregnancy center online, it send an email once a week with similiar information, but since it comes via email you can share that with those that are excited and want to be a part as well, like grandparents. And it is free |
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Very good! |
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This book offers a thorough explanation of what happens each week of pregnancy. It was suggested to me by a mother of 4 and I suggest it to anyone who is interested in what is going on in there between doctor's visits. |
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Please don't buy it...don't even READ it. |
My friend loaned me this book for my second pregnancy (she already has 2 toddlers) and I must say that it is terrible. You would be better off with "What to Expect" ONLY rather than along with this book or this book alone. As other reviewers have said, the week at which they choose to introduce certain topics boggles my mind. While I don't really mind the in-depth discussion about choosing your birth facility and figuring out your insurance coverage in week 9, why (oh why!?) does this come so early when the warning (in bold letters) "If you are pregnant and using Retin-A, stop using it immediately!" does not come up until week 26!?? Perhaps you presume that mothers who were using Retin-A would look it up in the index earlier in pregnancy- HA! the index is worthless! No, Retin-A is not listed there. Of course, I'm sure no pregnant woman in America makes it to week 26 of pregnancy without consulting her doc/midwife about it's safety... but if that was their reasoning, why would they make such a big deal out of it so late in the book!? After pondering this for a while,I curiously flipped through the entire book, and the ONLY other bold warning I saw was "Do not take Accutane during pregnancy!" back in week 8.
Braxton-Hicks contractions are not discussed until week 34 when they are almost certainly very old news to any pregnant woman reading (and again, not even mentioned in the index.) Twins are discussed for the first time in week 32. REALLY! If I was worried/hopeful about twins (and I was!), I think it would merit discussion before I was 7.5 months along...never mind how I would feel if I was one of the 1 in every 100 women who actually are pregnant with twins! And speaking of statistics, why are ridiculously rare conditions that only occur in "1 out of every 10,000 pregnancies" (cervical cancer) as well as dozens of rare but horrifying fetal complications/birth defects discussed in such horrific detail for half of every chapter while there are such huge gaping holes in the rest of the information? Read some of the other reviews for more elaboration and confirmation on this topic, but even as a close friend of women who struggled with thyroid disorder during pregnancy, CF, full-blown eclampsia, diagnosis of spina bifida during 20 week ultrasound, repeat miscarriages, etc., I felt that these scary aspects of pregnancy were dwelt upon FAR too much for the average reader. If you have a high-risk pregnancy involving one of these complications, you are going to need far more information than this book provides about each of them, anyway, so, NO!, I do not even feel that it is all justified in the name of "Just being informed about what could happen." The rambling, lackadaisical writing style (shame on the editor) only adds to the frustration while reading about these topics. While I respect that the author (a M.D.) can talk about dozens of devastating conditions in a carefree and detached manner, I certainly don't want to hear (or read) about them in such a cheerful and dismissive tone!!
Ugh, I could go on all day. The fact that there are several very detailed pencil drawings of the developing fetus (I counted about 24) is also tempered by the fact that the last 4 or 5 of them are depictions of complications; a 29 week preemie with fetal monitors attached, a fetus with an umbilical cord knot, placental abruption, etc. Quite charming. Overall, I think this book would be bearable if not for the discontinuity and random assembly of information. "What to Expect" also discusses complications in plenty of detail, but the information is easily accessible at your convenience via the index (and yes, the rarer conditions are in a separate section), rather then being at the mercy of the author when it will be sprung upon you, whether you were looking for it or not.
As most of the positive reviews admit, the only desirable features of this book (compared to What to Expect) are the larger and more realistic drawings of the fetus, and the supposedly more detailed fetal and uterine measurements. I found them no more satisfying than what I already knew about fundal height (weeks of pregnancy=fundal height in cm), and too cut and dried as far as fetal growth (what are obviously averages are stated as the factual measurements of YOUR fetus right now, with seldom an "about" or "approximately" thrown in). Whatever. Buy a Dr. Sears or Sheila Kitzinger (I really like both of them!) or try your luck with any other Pregnancy book that strikes your fancy if you really want another book in addition to good old WTE, or if you absolutely don't have access to the internet. If you are really craving fetal development photos, Google is your best friend. Best of luck!
p.s. I know I might sound like a WTE sales rep trying to put "Week-by-Week" out of business or something (lol), but honestly I would be thrilled if the publishers read this review and improved the flaws enough to give us another respectable addition to the pregnancy book collection. Just trying to save others the frustration I experienced while reading this book, and I didn't even pay for it- thank goodness!! |
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