Product Description

From the moment you learn you are pregnant time comes to a screeching halt. Everything is measured in relation to one day, one single momentous occasion: YOUR DUE DATE. Here is a diary that counts down the days of th year the way a pregnant woman understands them. Day One begins when you learn the happy news, and the diary continues throughout your evolution from human being to mum, all the while dispensing real advice and much-needed humour. And it doesn't desert you on delivery day- you'll be comforted through recovery and such trials as ther breast pump and sleep deprivation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #136372 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 368 pages

Customer Reviews

Humourous diary with AMERICAN bias and not much practical information
I liked the humour in this book and it will be a useful pregnancy diary. However, it contains little in the way of useful information regarding the developmental stages of your baby and you. It is very opinionated and not necessarily medically correct and I would not recommend it for a first time mum who needs to be correctly and fully informed. A good proportion of the detail is American through and through and does not apply in UK medical practices or culture. Some of this has been highlighted and pointed out but not all. Americans tend to involve much medical intervention during the birth process and this author is certainly no advocator of natural birth and outwardly dispels the idea of home births. Nice if you want to keep a diary but I prefer the one I had previously with my other babies which gave a week by week account of the development of the baby, how you should expect to feel and much more in the way of practical advice and what to expect from the medical support and experience as a whole here in the UK.

Generally good, if not upsettingly biased in places
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU ARE IN FAVOUR OF HOMEBIRTHS. As a woman passionatly fighting for a homebirth, I found the unsubstantiated and biased negative comments about homebirth very upsetting. According to this book, never mind the safety and quality of your birthing experience, so long as you don't mess up your precious sheets! Even if taken in a humourous way (as much of this book is written) it still gives entirely the wrong idea about what, to many women, is the ideal place to give birth.

That being said, I like the idea behind this book. It is nice to be able to record all the key points in your pregnancy, and to be able to look back on them in the future. Writing daily in this book can become quite a nice routine, and also a way to share your pregnancy thoughts and experiences with your partner.