Online Bookstore: Pocket Books The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy Book

Pocket Books Best selling books from the top online bookstore offering The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy book. Search our bookstore for books, The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy book and used out of print books. Search a large selection of rare out-of-print books from your source for new, used and hard to find book titles from the top book authors and publishers including Pocket Books.

from: Pocket Books
See Larger Image
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: Rating: - Poor Vicki! This book is supposed to be a helpful, hip guide to the real inside scoop on pregnancy. Some of the advice -- especially how not to spend a fortune on maternity clothes, what to take to the hospital, things like that -- is excellent; but I was disturbed at how awful she makes the whole pregnancy and birth experience sound. I'm currently trying to conceive for the first time, and she almost made me rethink the whole idea! Fortunately, my girlfriends who've been there and done that claim it's all not as dire as Iovine makes it sound. Maybe if you pop out four in six years (!) the experience wears a bit thin ... I found the endless moaning about how fat and disgusting pregnant women look, and how repulsive they are to the men in their lives, to be quite tiresome, especially coming from a woman who repeatedly reminds us that she wears a size four. The tone throughout makes it sound as if Mr. Vicki is hell on wheels to be married to -- the second she became marginally less decorative he can hardly stand to look at her or, indeed, be in the same room. Now there's a man I'd be dying to be married to! Parts of this book are quite funny: Iovine has a nice, chatty, girlfriendy tone throughout, and you come out rather liking her as a person. But the end result of reading this book, for me, was depressing rather than comforting. Do women ever actually want to get pregnant, and not regret the choice once it happens? If you listen to Iovine, you sure wouldn't think so. Rating: - 1st Time Mom was reassured by this book I'm amazed at the lack of humor the people who rated this low have. I was relieved to read this book, that told me that not everything was as pastel and beautiful like in a tampon commercial. I think this book was valuable in not expecting women to live up to a ridiculous television peaches and cream standard, and not to expect your husbands to handle it like some understanding guy on a pregnancy test commercial. Vicki's attitude did not strike me as cynical, it struck me as realistic! Sorry to bust your bubble all you "beautiful pregnancy" girls, but throwing up in the morning, having sciatic nerve pressure, and worrying about the amnio (that I eventually refused) was NOT beautiful. Vicki made me feel OK to feel this way. I really got the idea that she loved pregnancy, but would have appreciated someone tell her what was really gonna happen. Plus, I read the "what to expect" books as well. You use both and glean your own perspective from both. Vicki's was the only perspective on the market that socked it to you real, instead of those new-age-music, "oh what a gentle wonderful time" -- and she could laugh at the same time. Same attitude I want to raise my kids with! Rating: - Informative, but not authoritative This book was refreshing in light of all the textbook-style pregnancy books I had been consulting previously. The author describes what happens to a woman's body in vivid detail- which is great if you want a laugh and a reality check at the same time. All my girlfriends agree that this book captures the "lighter side" of pregnancy very well & is a fun read. The thing to remember about this book is that it is not written by a health care professional, nor does it appear that one was consulted in great detail for this book. As a result, the author gives some unorthodox advice (e.g., it's okay to have an occasional alcoholic beverage, don't bother exercising). I consider this book to be one person's experience and outlook, and not as the book upon which to model every aspect of my pregnancy. Specifics aside, the main point of the book is that women need to live their lives as comfortably and normally as possible through their pregnancy. Enjoy this book, but don't abandon the expert medical advice found in the less-fun, more-sterile pregnancy books.

Featured Book Publisher: Pocket Books

Find Pocket Books books, The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy and other related products from the top online bookstore. To find Pocket Books books use the search box at the top left of the page.

Online Bookstore: Pocket Books The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy

Online Bookstore Home Page > Online Bookstore

© COPYRIGHT 2003 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SHOP-4-BOOKSTORE.COM