Product Description

Lauded by women and their caregivers as simply the best pregnancy guide, Your Pregnancy Bible has now been thoroughly updated and revised to take account of the changes in antenatal care and obstetric practice since the book was first published. Your Pregnancy Bible contains the combined knowledge and experience of experts in their fields, overseen by a top practising consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-22
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 392 pages

Review
Emma's Diary .......covers all of the vital subjects that a mum-to-be needs to know.... as well as practical and reassuring advice are all included in this excellent book --Emma's Diary

Midwifery Digest
"Very useful and beautifully presented"

Synopsis
The book's combination of in-depth, illustrated chapters that deal with all aspects of antenatal care, labour and delivery and newborn care, plus highly detailed reference sections on medical treatments and procedures, and its week-by-week look at the developing baby, has led readers to exclaim "Excellent - everything I wanted to know; Fantastic! A real must-have! This is the one you need. Does exactly what it says on the cover!!". Thoroughly revised to ensure that its coverage of vital subjects such as ultrasound scanning and other screening tests, labour management, maternal disease during pregnancy and infant first aid reflect the latest UK guidelines, "Your Pregnancy Bible" is certain to remain the ideal pregnancy companion for all pregnant women and their partners.

Customer Reviews

Thank goodness I had this!
My partner and I have been so grateful to the friends who bought us this book! It really does contain everything you need to know, and has been very reassuring for me as someone who tends to worry a lot about everything! Even my partner has read large chunks (something he has not done with the other books we have). I particularly liked the step by step weekly guide which was incredibly informative. The photography is amazing and the narrative is very well informed (by properly qualified professionals). Buy this for yourself and your pregnant friends - they'll be forever grateful.

Your Pregnancy Bible: The Experts' Guide to the Nine Months of Pregnancy and the First Weeks of Parenthood, New updated edition
Finding myself slightly overwhelmed at expecting another baby after twelve years, I thought I ought to treat myself to a comprehensive book as my previous antenatal carers didn't really have the time to answer all my questions and I was slightly concerned to be 40 and pregnant. Having acquired a copy of Your Pregnancy Bible, I'm not only feeling more confident about my having a successful pregnancy but also am much better informed about what I should be doing. There seems to be a lot that has changed! The advice about what to eat during pregnancy as well as avoiding environmental hazards ­ stories of which appear constantly in my newspaper ­ is very easy to follow and I'm more reassured about undertaking the different diagnostic tests. I've also caught husband, who to my knowledge, never read a book during my earlier pregnancy, looking at the book particularly the week-by-week photos and marvelling at the rapid pace of development. The book has become a great talking point between us.

Not necessarily the best buy
As first time parents to be, we wanted to buy a book that could tell us more than the scant information given by the medical profession! This book is, in the main part, well written, clear and offers what appears to be a good guide to the main points relating to pregnancy. It provides a good clear insight into how your body develops along with that of your baby, throughout pregnancy.
However, both my husband and I feel that the book does have its flaws and could do with being a bit more down to earth. It assumes that the reader already has a certain level of knowledge of pregnancy and pregnancy-related terms (which my hubby was oblivious to and subsequently confused about), concentrates on projecting the image of a perfect pregnancy with married parents (a scant paragraph is the only mention of potential single mums to be) and relatively few adverse effects (such as no mention of the headaches many mums to be experience, nor any suggestion that morning sickness is anything but that - a bit of nausea in the morning). Aside from the slightly patronising tone, there are a number of infuriating spelling mistakes, grammatical and syntax errors, and some sentences which just don't actually make sense - clearly the proof-reading didn't go too well!
Although the photographs are clear and mostly useful, we both found some of them quite distressing, especially as one in particular shows a foetus photographed through the amniotic sac, and that sac looks like it has been cut away - leading one to wonder if the little mite has been aborted / dissected. See page 36 of this edition (week 15). You choose!