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The Prenatal Prescription

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There aren't many books out there that address ways you can prepare BEFORE conception to promote the health of your child. The Prenatal Prescription carefully details the ways in which you can prepare your body, both before and after conception, to provide a healthy environment for your developing baby.

There are two things that set this book apart from other preganancy prep books. The first is that Peter Nathanielsz has carefully surveyed the research literature to answer some of the questions that every parent wants to know during pregancy (e.g. Can I exercise? Is caffiene okay?). He sifts through the evidence to evaluate the current thinking on prenatal development. It's very helpful to have access to this information in a pregnancy book. He also addresses topics that the reader may not even know are pertinent to pregancy; the chapter on stress and its effects on fetal development is fascinating, and the chapter on exercise is worth the cost of the book alone.

The second thing that sets this book apart is its tone. Nathanielsz writes with clarity and with great respect for the mother-to-be. He presents complex information in a way that is easy to process and absorb. This is a nice balance point between overly cutesy popular press and the too-technical-for-laypeople scientific literature. Finally, he manages to convey the need to provide a good prenatal environment without terrifying the reader, frequently putting the information back into the context of the 'big picture'.

This is an excellent book for anyone just thinking about when to plan a family; some of the recommended changes may take time to put into place.

The Prenatal Prescription should be read by all pregnant women and by their families. It helps everyone to prepare and plot their way through the crucially important period of pregnancy. Professor Nathanielsz explains exactly what happens to the foetus, and more importantly, what is essential for the good health of the unborn child and its mother. The guidelines which he presents here are of inestimable importance. The book is immensely readable, presented for the general reader: the science does not obstruct our understanding of the extraordinary, exciting story of pregnancy.

Easy to read. Very informative and well written. I enjoyed it immensely.

This is the single most informative and enlightening book I had read in a long time. After reading it, I asked my mom for details of how she cared for herself when she was pregnant with me, and it shined a light on so many things that I had dealt with since childhood. Now, I am myself 7 months pregnant and reading the book for a second time so that I may be mindful to do all that I can to grow a healthy baby. I recommend this book to all women who are pregnant or plan to conceive.

This is an excellent book for any couple to read well before they embark on the journey of pregnancy. When you realize that the nutritional and emotional environment has such a key roll in the life of the child for the rest of their lives - you take things a lot more seriously in preparing for a healthy pregnancy and working to adjust your life and habits accordingly.

Don't get pregnant without reading this book!

Yes this is a lot of common sense but it goes into depth about those common sense ideas of why you need to eat healthy and not starve yourself during your pregnancy. He is a little repetitive but it's an easy to read book. It also scratches the surface of the importance of medical care for women. I think it's ashman that you either have to be on medicare or be rich to have a baby no a days! Something needs to be done about this.

I had to read this for a psyc class. It was very interesting because it offered alot of informative information not only what expecting mothers can do to make the womb a better environment for their baby, but also all the background research that has been going on in the field. I thoroughly enjoyed the historical examples that were provided to illustrate his points.

Not eveyone who is an M.D., Ph.D. can write or has something interesting or groundbreaking to say.

The cover of this book, with its ultrasound picture of a fetus, and the "AS SEEN ON THE TODAY SHOW", look interesting and makes the book look worth reading. But these are only a selling points.

This is a painfully repetative 212 page book that could have been written in no more than 20 pages. The author repeats himself page after page. He writes non-releavant stories about how researcher did some studies and came to some conclusions.

Everything in this book is common knowledge and common sense: eat healthy, don't over-eat or under-eat, don't drink, don't smoke, stay away from toxins and other chemical, take folic acid, and visit the OBGYN regularly.