The Best Friends' Guide to Pregnancy: Or Everything Your Doctor Won't Tell You

by Vicki Iovine | Parenting & Families |
ISBN: 0747533253 Global Overview for this book
Registered by nice-cup-of-tea of Zürich, Zürich Switzerland on 12/30/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by nice-cup-of-tea from Zürich, Zürich Switzerland on Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Amazon Review
'The book is fantastic - I'm sure it's all the information I'll need' Meg Matthews, Having a Baby 'Hilarious The comical side to pregnancy made it a lot easier to deal with' Donna Air, New Woman 'It's brilliant, and stuffed full of anecdotes you'll recognise immediately keep this one for bedside reading Iovine's warm and witty style is wonderfully reassuring' Pregnancy Magazine

Chirpy, chatty, jocular (perhaps overly so) guide to the nitty gritty of pregnancy and birth with the laudable aim of offering all the details you might get from other mums, rather than doctors or midwives. The descriptions reflect a certain attitude: periods are painful, labour is bloody, epidurals are God's gift - which is very much of the 'ain't it awful?' school of pregnancy experiences; we're into the 'grisly details' of labour and the 'battle scars' you will bear thereafter on page one, and it rather implies that every woman will suffer a full selection. The glib attempts at humour and mateyness can get rather trying, particularly when mixed with coyness. It's tabloid gynaecology mixed with soap opera obstetrics, and no territory for either nervous mums or anyone who, unlike the author, can contemplate phrases like 'natural childbirth' or even 'breathing exercises' without contempt. This probably betrays the author's - and the book's - American origins, and the publishers too could have tried harder: footnoted amendments to reflect UK practice do not a British edition make. (Kirkus UK)

Product Description
Your doctor gives you medical advice. Your mother buys you baby clothes. But who can give you the real story when you're pregnant? Your best friends of course - at least the ones who've been through the exhilaration and exhaustion, the agony and ecstasy of pregnancy. Now, four-time delivery-room veteran Vicki Iovine helps you through the next nine months the way only a best friend can. Here is straight talk about those little things that are too embarrassing to ask about, practical tips and hilarious tales on anything pregnant. From learning that you're expecting ('Oh my God, how do I get out of this?') to the day your newborn arrives ('You mean I have to take it home with me?') , Iovine gives you the low-down on: What really happens to your body - from morning sickness and wind to eating everything in sight; what to expect when going from being a babe to having one; common fears and paranoia - from turning into your mother to leaving the baby on the car roof; the many moods of pregnancy - or why you're so irritable/distracted/tired/lightheaded (well, more than you usually are); the pregnancy experts - from your mum to his mum, they think they know everything and they don't hesitate to tell you what you are doing wrong; how to have sex during pregnancy, should you so desire - bearing in mind you'll have no interest afterwards; looking and feeling your best - cautionary style tips from your best friend, who really would tell you if your perky new-mum haircut makes you look like a pinhead whale.

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