How to Pamper Your Pregnant Wife [Paperback]

Ron Schultz (Author), Sam Schultz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1997

WHAT EVERY PREGNANT WIFE WANTS HER HUSBAND TO KNOW

This book will help expectant fathers play the role of a sensitive and understanding husband in a relationship where all the rules are about to change. How to Pamper Your Pregnant Wife is filled with advice, rules, suggestions, and guidelines based on interviews conducted with pregnant wives, doctors, therapists, mothers-in-law, mothers, and marriage counselors. It gives specific examples of what a "pregnant" dad should offer his wife, including

• Pampering to show consideration;

• Trimester-by-trimester crash course in spousal relations;

• Details of how a woman's body changes, to help the man understand the need for greater sensitivity and patience;

• Sex and the pregnant wife;

• Weathering the sudden mood shifts and soothing the anxious wife;

• Learning how to be a considerate birthing coach.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

There's a lot of hearty, upbeat, well-intentioned advice in this book, which will get every father-to-be excited about the miracle at work in the body of the woman he loves; much of it, however, is dedicated to puncturing old superstitions about pregnancy and childbirth, making it seem simplistic to fairly sophisticated husbands. Some sections seem outdated, particularly the parts about dealing with in-laws and advising the expectant mother on what she should be eating. Most of the advice, however, is sound, and any book that encourages husbands to periodically slip their wives a bit of Ben & Jerry's is definitely recommended.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Meadowbrook Press (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671574957
• ISBN-13: 978-0671574956
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,168,564 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Phamplet parading as a book, October 20, 1997

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[e-mail] (Stephenville, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Pamper Your Pregnant Wife (Paperback)

This so-called book is more of a phamplet that doesn't focus on it's title, the need to pamper pregnant wives. It's more of a general book for pregnant husbands, in a super-condensed form. You can read this book in its entirity in one evening.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great look at how to keep your wife happy during pregnancy, April 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Pamper Your Pregnant Wife (Paperback)

This is an excellent book, filled with practical advice, hints, and thoughts about how to keep your pregnant wife happy and content. The authors speak from experience, and they have plenty of that! Specifically, I found this book useful because it helped focus my positive energy on my wife's specific needs. It also contains a great deal of information about how to continue your physical relationship during pregnancy, which helped keep both my wife and I very happy! Finally, it is a great book to display prominently on your night stand or coffee table, as it labels you as a "caring and sensitive" husband, who is really interested in being a part of the pregnancy!

Enjoy!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The title is reason alone to buy this book!, December 5, 2000

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J. Manullang "JLSM" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Pamper Your Pregnant Wife (Paperback)

My pregnancy was confirmed on my husband's birthday, and I had bought this book to give him as a gift. I don't think he found it nearly as amusing as I did! (Maybe it was all the notes I'd written in the margins...) I've since bought it for several friends' husbands upon finding out they were expecting, and it always gets some laughs. Anyway, the book has good, practical ideas; some common sense things that not all men might think about. It's a short book and very inexpensive, but I think it's worth the price for the few gems of information inside. BTW, my husband DID read it, and I was pampered my whole pregnancy long, though I'm not sure the book deserves credit for that.