Customer Reviews

The Pregnancy Diet

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As a health care professional, I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in nutrition during pregnancy. The meal planning guides and recipes are great for moms! I use this book in my nursing practice!

This book, while providing very good information on nutrition recommendations during pregnancy, falls short on the recipes. I tried several of the recipes, and each one left out pertinent information. I would also say that I have read the same nutrition information in other pregnancy books, so it is not really worth buying, in my opinion.

There is no information in this book that I haven't read or been told before. This morning I tried to make one of the recipes from the book, the "Wholesome Whole-Grain Muffins" and they were a disaster. Behan instructs that this recipe makes 18 muffins, but I used 18 muffin cups and the batter overflowed and made my kitchen smell terrible (not great when a pregnant woman is feeling nauseous anyway) and they are burnt on the edges and not quite cooked in the middles. This is coming from someone who loves to bake and has a little experience behind making muffins. The batter was very watery and the small taste I took (what I could stand after smelling burnt batter all morning) was very, very sweet. I would not recommend purchasing this book.

This book is very reassuring for any woman who is pregnant and worries about keeping the weight on after birth. The focus is on a healthy pregnancy but it gives the facts about what to expect about weight. I found it very comforting and empowering

I was pregnant with twins and really worried about eating well (and going into premature labor). After consulting with my OB I learned I don't have to eat alot more than with a singleton. I then purchased "The Pregnancy Diet". I ate 1-2 of the "Wholesome Whole-Grain Muffins" a day; these were easy to make. The "Chix Baked w/Lemon and Vegetarian Meatloaf" were my favorites too. I ended up going into premature labor. My twins were born at 29 weeks. They were excellent weights despite this. The neonatologist said I fed them well and the nurse said they were the biggest "29 weekers" she has ever seen. They are now 5, robust and healthy. People can't believe how early they were born. I recommend this book for everyone - if it can help me feed 2 babies very well, it can help you too!

This is my third pregnancy and I don't want to gain as much weight as I have in my two previous pregnancies. I was disappointed by The Pregnancy Diet because it failed to tell me how to control my weight and cravings. I was looking for more information on eating healty filling foods, not cutting back on my meals.

Quite frankly, the book didn't help me much at all

I thought this book was going to help me out in trying not to over gain as I did in my first two pregnancies. The information was good but then I tried to make one of the recipes. It has ingredients listed but doesn't tell you where to add them. As far as I have seen it doesn't list a cooking temperature once in the whole book. I was able to make the macaroni & cheese but I had to guess at what to bake it at and when to add certain ingredients. This book was really a disappointment to me. Do not buy it, you'll just waist your money!