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The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy: Or everything your doctor won't tell you
by: Vicki Iovine |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 618.2 EAN: 9780671524319 ISBN: 0671524313 Label: Pocket Manufacturer: Pocket Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 262 Publication Date: October 01, 1995 Publisher: Pocket Studio: Pocket |
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  - before you purchase anything from this authorBe sure to read her column on Huffington Post, dated 2/20/10. Sure sounds to me like fat people hatred. What a hateful, arrogant b$%@h. Rating: - Unsupportive of homebirths!This book was given to me as gift. I glanced through it and immediately was turned off by the chatty street language. I then proceded to thumb the index for midwives and homebirths, something I hold very dear. She dedicated maybe a page to the whole topic and basically said midwives didn't work out for her friend and went on to give a horrible desciption of birth. This author has no empathy for the baby and mother bonding and all the turmoil the baby and mother can go through in a hospital setting. She makes the reader feel like they need painkillers, instead of trusting that their body can give natural childbirth like many women have before them. She makes the birth process sound like war. There was absolutely no loving care or intelligent thought in her language. Not recommended! Rating: - The first book I've ever thrown awayI was given this book as a gift from a girlfriend who was trying to conceive while I was expecting our first. Because she wasn't yet a mom and surely didn't read the book (or have the experience to know that it contained pure crap) I believe it to have been a thoughtful gift and the title sounds like it would be perfect. However, in truth this book is little more than one woman's exaggerations of what pregnancy and child-birth entails. At best, Cliff's Notes could narrow this book into a stand-up routine, albeit a pretty lame one. After realizing how worthless this book was to me, I attempted to donate it to the public library. They refused it, stating they "did not wish to carry it". Rating:  - You are pregnant...the sky is NOT falling...Enjoy it while it lasts!Loved it! Loved her refreshing way of telling us about not only her four experiences but experiences of her girlfriends as well. Everyone knows that every pregnancy is different and many books i've read seem to treat every pregnancy as if they were all identical. Loved her humor. When you are pregnant (especially the first time) sometimes it feels like you are bombarded with worst case scenario type information. This one is more fun and less sky is falling. You're pregnant...enjoy it...relax...and here are some fabulous tips to get through it. Rating: - clever bookthis book is written in the genre of nanny diaries (in the whiny way cynical people complain). Does make me feel better about hating my pregnancy. It's good to know things will get better in the future without all the preachy hallowed vessel mantra (pregnancy is awesome. you'll love your baby. just let nature take its course. you are sacred.). |
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