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Inside the Pregnant Father: The best way to start your pregnancy Tactics for the bathroom and the breakfast table A pocket-sized solution to the morning sickness problem Coping with cravings How to preserve your sex life The Pregnant Father's Cookbook Labor pains, true and false A complete hospital survival kit The nicest way of predicting your unborn baby's sex How to cash in on triplets Getting a birthday present from Uncle Sam Three ways to help your wife get back in shape
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Peter Mayle is also the author of the national bestsellers, Where Did I Come From?, A Year In Provence, Toujours Provence, and A Dog's Life.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Dated and not all that useful,
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This review is from: How To Be A Pregnant Father (Mass Market Paperback)
At one point in the narrative the author recommends that you read some of your wife's pregnancy books to get an idea what's going on. That is the best advice this book has to offer. Read another book. I found most of what was advised here to be dated and not all that useful given the changing roles in modern America. Most men do not need to read hints on how to make canned soup and the recipe for "Tuna Chowder" made my wife's stomach churn when I read it out loud. The entire chapter on what to do while in the waiting room seems superfluous in contemporary society where the husband accompanies his wife during the delivery. There are some good words of wisdom peppered through the 1950s mentality though. Let your wife know you love her and that she's attractive. Get involved with the process right from the start and... and..... Sorry. That's about all I could glean from this thing. I just saved you ten bucks.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
For the Busy Dad-to-Be,
By "susana@cyberport.com" (Shiprock, NM USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How To Be A Pregnant Father (Mass Market Paperback)
I bought this book for my husband shortly after we learned I was pregnant. I read it first and thought it was perfectly short and direct for the first-time and somewhat-frightened busy father-to-be. My husband didn't read it until after our baby boy was born. At which point, enraptured by our son,he read it from front to cover and tried out all the recipes included during my first couple of weeks home. The recipes are simple, but really, really delicious. He still refers to it for certain dishes. My bet is that he will read it again, but at the beginning of my next pregnancy -- not the end of it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Very bad information--should get relegated to the trash pile,
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This review is from: How To Be A Pregnant Father (Mass Market Paperback)
I actually had checked this book out of our local library when we found out my wife was pregnant. The advice is so dated and bad (mind you, it was first published in the 1970s) that it can only be treated as bad humor as opposed to information. It advises you to take your wife out for one last alcoholic fling when you find out she's pregnant, offers advice that is no longer relevant for the birth, and really bad cooking advice. It does not reflect any current knowledge and could give a guy a very wrong idea about what to expect. May it go out of print!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Fathers' Race: A Book About Paternity by Charles Jennings on page 20, page 21, and page 22
- "Poppa" Psychology: The Role of Fathers in Children's Mental Well-Being by Vicky Phares on page 29
- Maybe You Know My Kid 3rd Edition: A Parent's Guide to Identifying, Understanding, and HelpingYour Child With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder by Mary Fowler in Back Matter
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