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The BabyCenter Essential Guide to Pregnancy and Birth: Expert Advice and Real-World Wisdom from the Top Pregnancy and Parenting Resource

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This book covers everything you could ever need to decide during your pregnancy. You can either read through week by week, or look for information on specific issues. There is a great reference section in the back of "is it safe" questions that help you know the risks of various foods and activities - now you don't have to wonder if sushi is safe, you can still color your hair, etc.

Other things I like:
* they have "babycenter buzz" with comments from real parents - they tell it like it really is. (even things you don't want to know)
* there is a lot of information for dads in this book. My dh and I can read the same information and decide on things together.
* cool pictures that show what your baby looks like during each month of growth and "revealing" pictures of a pregnant mom throughout her pregnancy - watch her grow with you.

Since i love the babycenter.com website and already get their weekly pregnancy newsletter, the quality of the book matched my expectations since everything they do is great. I like that I can take this with me and look things up easily without having to get on the computer all the time.

This is not my first pregnancy so I honestly felt that I knew it all and wouldn't benefit from a book about pregnancy--wrong! This is an informative and well-organized book that holds the interest of even this veteran preggo. I passed it along to one of my girlfriends who is pregnant with her first and she loves the book. It is a much better read than the old girlfriends guide or what to expect series--out with the old and in with the new!

Even dads-to-be can get a lot out of this book! Very well written with great information that can be shared between mom and dad!

With everything from checklists of things to know to what is safe for mothers and forming children and what to ask the doctor this book is loaded with great information and insights into what is going on!

Make sure you visit babycenter.com as well to get the full experience of this one!

As a huge fan of BabyCenter, I highly recommend this book. Many is the time that the editors at BabyCenter helped me and my wife as we struggled with new challenges in our baby's development. Their timely advice made two neurotic parents a little less so.

This is a great book for anyone who is pregnant or is planning to become pregnant. The information is up-to-date and easy to find in this large data jammed book. Even though my 'babies' are now teenagers, I still had questions about my pregnancies that had never been answered, but the answers were easy to find in this book. I had not had success in finding the answers before I read this guide. I wish this book had been around 17 years ago.

Although I typically don't purchase many books, I bought this one used from Amazon.com because I couldn't find it at our library.

I've read numerous other books on pregnancy, and was starting to tire of the subject. However, I had a few outstanding questions that I noticed the description mentioned.

When the book arrived I knew I had made a good choice. It is extremely well-organized, so that you don't have to read the whole thing cover-to-cover, but rather can just check the index for whatever you're interested in (nausea, doulas, specific diagnostic tests, etc.) and flip go straight to your pages. I thought the info. on testing was particularly clear and straightforward.

The week-by-week information is the same as you will see on BabyCenter.com, but it is really helpful to have the additional information surrounding specific topics in book form.

This is a nice, easy to understand book to pass on to a friend once you are done with it (unless you can find it in YOUR library! :).

I found myself skipping lots of the Everything to Expect book because it discusses lots of potential problems that, realistically, most women (including me) don't encounter. This book includes practical tips like using throwing up in the sink over the garbage disposal because it's easy to clean up and less unpleasant than the toilet.

The advice is quite practical since so much of it comes from real been-there-been-sick-with-that moms. The writing style and layout of the book are very accessible, even when you're tired and sick and your brain just isn't functioning all that well.

This is a great book that covers everything you need to know about your pregnancy and those first few overwhelming weeks of motherhood. It answers all those questions about what is safe to do and eat. It explains each stage of your pregnancy step by step and has stories and quotes from real moms. There are checklists and information on everything you could ever need to know about. I used the 'What to Expect' book when I was pregnant last time, but this book has so much more information and is very easy to read. The index is excellent and all topics are easy to find. I was very pleased to discover that it not only covered the basics of pregnancy and birth, but talked about alternatives for birthing like hypnosis and home births. There's a section for dads, how to cope with friends and family, and an area with advice for dealing with work issues.

Moms-to-be will find all sorts of necessary and interesting info in this book. It gives a week by week guide for what to expect during pregnancy and addresses issues such as health, emotions and "the rest of your life." There are sections about the birth, the weeks after the birth and a section about special situations.

Not only is the run-of-the-mill advice in this book, but there are sections on things like, "managing lupus during my pregnancy" and "making the most of your changing look."

My favorite parts were the "Babycenter Buzz" sections. Comments made by pregnant women on babycenter's website were put into the book, so expecting moms get tips from other pregnant women as well as from the professionals.

This book is awesome. It not only gives expert advice, it also adds comments from the best experts there are, other Mom's. If you are a first time Mom or not, this book is a must have. It even answers questions that alot of women are afraid to ask. I got this book for my niece for her 3rd pregnancy and she hasn't been able to put it down. If you are going to buy just one pregnancy book, let this be it!!!!