Your Pregnancy Week By Week 5th Edition (Your Pregnancy Series)

Your Pregnancy Week By Week 5th Edition (Your Pregnancy Series)
by Glade B. Curtis, Judith Schuler

Your Pregnancy Week By Week 5th Edition (Your Pregnancy Series)
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Author: Glade B. Curtis, Judith Schuler
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-01-07
ISBN: 1555613462
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Da Capo Press

Book Reviews of Your Pregnancy Week By Week 5th Edition (Your Pregnancy Series)

Book Review: This Book Flat-Out Lies
Summary: 3 Stars

This book flat-out lies...about home birth anyway. The doctor claims that homebirth is unsafe and studies show infants and mothers have a higher mortality rate when birthing at home. Actually, the opposite is true. For accurate information on this topic, I suggest watching The Business of Being Born. Also see the World Health Organization's studies and statistics which show the US has some of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the world. Other first world countries, where babies are born mostly at home, do not have the rates of the US. The author should be ashamed for outright lying in this manner and the publisher as well for not fact-checking the assertion.

As for the rest of the book, it includes a lot of information, although some of it is a bit paternalistic (ironic considering it is written mostly for women by a woman). The week by week format is helpful. The drawings are a bit primitive.

Summary of Your Pregnancy Week By Week 5th Edition (Your Pregnancy Series)

A totally revised and expanded new edition of the best-selling doctor-authored pregnancy book--the only one organized week by week.

Because of the rapid rate of change to both mother and baby, doctors refer to a pregnancy in increments of weeks, not months or even trimesters; expectant mothers look for changes and compare the details of their pregnancies based on the same weekly schedule. The best-selling Your Pregnancy Week by Week doles out focused information in this medically appropriate way, making it the most mom-recommended pregnancy guide on the market.

Now carefully brought up-to-date, this expanded Fifth Edition will also be the most medically current and comprehensive pregnancy guide available. Always reliable and now re-designed to be even more accessible, weekly chapters include illustrations, descriptions of baby's growth and developmental milestones, information about a mother's average weight gain and what she might be feeling or becoming aware of, and the medical testing that corresponds to the week in question. New features include:
* Information on cutting edge obstetric technologies-from 3D ultrasound to pre-natal genetic testing
* The very latest diet, nutritional and fitness recommendations for expectant mothers
* A new chapter devoted to overdue (post-term) pregnancies
* An expanded 15-page glossary of pregnancy and childbirth terms
* A handy Due Date Prediction Calendar


Pregnancy should be a time of wonder and hope, but these days, it's associated more often with paranoia. Dr. Glade Curtis is keenly aware of the anxieties heaped upon expectant women: he has written several pregnancy-related books. So while he covers pretty much any topic that an expectant mom might be concerned about, he does not overload the reader with extraneous information or horror stories that can be found in that other best-selling pregnancy guide. In this completely revised and updated edition, Curtis describes the physical developments from weeks 1 through 40--or 41 or 42!--such as the size and weight of the baby, emotional changes in the mother, typical medical tests offered, and nutritional requirements. (The iron found in prenatal vitamins may exacerbate morning sickness, he writes, because iron supplementation is usually not needed until the final trimester.) It is too bad that Dr. Curtis does not recommend more alternative-medicine approaches for treating common pregnancy discomforts. In the chapter covering Week 8, he rightly describes sciatic-nerve pain as excruciating, but does not advise yoga or chiropractic treatments for its relief. However, he *is* hip to the use of doulas, or labor coaches, he encourages breastfeeding, and includes numerous tips for making your partner feel included in what should be a thrilling experience for you both. --Erica Jorgensen

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