What to Expect When You're Expecting Pregnancy Organizer [Spiral-bound]

Arlene Eisenberg (Author), Heidi Murkoff (Author), Sandee Hathaway B.S.N (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 6, 1995

Marrying the friendly authority of What to Expect When You're Expecting with the ease-of-use of a daily planner, here is a companion for every stage of pregnancy. It's a complete planner, and includes forms to track medical expenses, checklists to help achieve a healthy diet, easy-to-fill-in personal and family medical history pages, suggested shopping lists for pregnancy wardrobe and layettes. Plus plenty of room to record important questions for the doctor, favorite names, keep a labor and birth diary, and more. With a new design that is compact and Wire-O bound with a spine, the pregnancy organizer can be slipped into a handbag or briefcase, to be carried everywhere for everything worth jotting down. 344,000 copies in print.

Editorial Reviews

Book Description

Introducing the totally revised and updated What to Expect Pregnancy Journal and Organizer – with 715,000 copies in print, it's the perfect gift and popular companion to What to Expect When You're Expecting. Lightweight and sized to fit into a tote or briefcase, this handy planner is an expectant mom's best friend from conception through labor and delivery.

For the new edition, the text has been brought completely up-to-date in accordance with the information in the recently revised third edition of What to Expect When You're Expecting. Featuring prompted pages, checklists, and a weekly write-in pregnancy and labor journal, this is the best way for mothers-to-be to keep track of important dates, questions to ask the doctor, medications, milestones, childbirth class notes, shopping lists, phone numbers, and everything else that comes with the nine months of pregnancy. The journal/organizer's compact design ensures it can go everywhere mom goes. After baby's arrival, it becomes an instant keepsake. --This text refers to an alternate Spiral-bound edition.

From the Publisher

Would you like to know what to expect during the first stages of motherhood and parenthood, from pregnancy to the toddler years? To be prepared for whatever may come your way? To be able to compare your baby's progress with the progress of others? If so, the phenomenal WHAT TO EXPECT series should be your indispensable guide. This group of six books has captured the hearts America's top pediatricians--and America's most conscientious parents. With over 14 million volumes in print, this is the series that has been reassuring parents for over ten years. Also available in the series: WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING, the landmark bestselling bible for parents-to-be; WHAT TO EXPECT THE FIRST YEAR, the most comprehensive guide to newborn care; WHAT TO EAT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING, an easy-to-follow, up-to-date diet plan using a simple system to monitor servings; WHAT TO EXPECT THE TODDLER YEARS, a lively and reassuring guide to years two and there; and QUE SE PUEDE ESPERAR CUNADO SE ESTA ESPERANDO, the Spanish translation of WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING.

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 224 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition (January 6, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563058723
• ISBN-13: 978-1563058721
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (69 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Could be better, but I still love mine, July 17, 2007

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ctando "ctando" (Metairie, LA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The What to Expect Pregnancy Journal & Organizer (Spiral-bound)

I have 4 kids and one of these for each of them. They made keeping track of what questions I had for the doc, weight changes, allowed meds, etc a lot easier. I don't think (as a first time mom) that I would've known just what to write down. As I've gone along with other pregnancies, I've learned to be more detailed in my writing and now go back to past journals as reference materials. Just when did heartburn kick in? When did I get to the point when I had trouble sleeping or rolling over?

The cons, as other reviewers have noted, mainly have to do with the layout. It's just not as easily accessible as it could be. I dealt with this by getting reusable sticky page markers and wrote the most important sections down: OB Appointments, Journal area, etc. Another beef I had was that there weren't quite enough slots for the appointments for me. There were periods when I had more frequent visits than usual and I ended up having to write on the reverse side of the previous page. If you have a difficult pregnancy, this may be an issue. Also, they only give you a small square for each week of journaling. I had way more to write than I had space and ended up writing very tiny to squeeze it all in.

Keep a pencil with it with a book/magazine to read in a small tote bag to grab on your way to the OB's. Just don't keep it where small children can get to it...

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All you need to get through pregnancy, January 30, 2007

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Reviewer IV (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The What to Expect Pregnancy Journal & Organizer (Spiral-bound)

The previous poster must be reviewing the wrong book or the planner, because this journal and organizer is AMAZING -- and not a calendar.

This has a daily journal that you can fill in, and it has an entire organizer section that includes things like doctor visits and recommendations, a fill in birth plan, exercise and weight gain tracker, place to list all the people to call when you're in labor, a place to write down things to help shopping for baby, and lots more.

I had the old version of this book for my last pregnancy and filled every inch. I just bought this new version for my current pregnancy and can't wait to start filling in this one. A definite five-star!!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars love this organizer!, June 6, 2007

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Tired Mommy (Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What to Expect When You're Expecting Pregnancy Organizer (Spiral-bound)

This organizer is great if you actually use it. The best parts are the areas to write down questions for your next dr. visit, and what dr. told you at each visit. Also has areas for tracking daily movements (after 5 months), and an area to make sure you're getting the appropriate number of servings of each food type in the food pyramid, daily. I used that dedicatedly and only gained 20 pounds!!!!WOW Also has area to record baby gifts received, thank you notes written, baby names you like etc. and it's only about 1 inch thick. Easily fit in my purse for Dr. visits.

I will definitely get another one for my next pregnancy.