Your Pregnancy After 35: Revised Edition [Paperback]

Glade B. Curtis (Author), Judith Schuler (Author)

Book Description

Series: Your Pregnancy | Publication Date: September 7, 2004

When a woman becomes pregnant in her late thirties or forties, she naturally has different needs and interests than younger mothers-to-be. Up-to-date and easy to read, Your Pregnancy After 35 provides reassuring medical information as well as sensible advice about how to fit pregnancy into a busy lifestyle. With Your Pregnancy After 35, expectant mothers can feel confident about their pregnancies and learn to be better partners with their healthcare professionals. From how exactly age affects pregnancy to when to consider genetic counseling to how to find the best care when returning to work, this essential guide offers mothers -and their partners-the wise and supportive answers they need.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Authors Glade Curtis and Judith Schuler have good news for thirty- and fortysomething moms: your health may be more important than your age. Your Pregnancy After 35 is a realistic and reassuring guide for couples who have delayed parenthood. The authors, an obstetrician and pregnancy educator, provide straightforward and sensible advice about medical issues, including age and risk in pregnancy, genetic counseling, multiple births, exercise, and weight management. In addition, the milestones and social challenges of pregnancy are clearly addressed, including topics like sharing the news with friends and coworkers and how pregnancy affects marriage and career. Each topic is illustrated with anecdotes from Dr. Curtis's 20 years in practice as an obstetrician/gynecologist. As more couples choose to delay childbearing, Curtis and Schuler's book can provide optimistic and encouraging words about the belated adventure of becoming parents. --Barbara Mackoff --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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BellaOnline.com
“Detailed and the only book the older pregnant mom needs…A wonderful, comprehensive guide that covers any concern a pregnant woman over 35 could have. A definite must-read!”

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Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press; Revised edition (September 7, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738210048
• ISBN-13: 978-0738210049
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,627,531 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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49 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not very detailed -- there are better books out there, April 11, 2003

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Carol C. "ccjello" (Kansas City, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Pregnancy after 35 (Paperback)

This book is okay; it provides all of the basic information on pregnancy and would be sufficient if you were interested in a minimal level of information. I found the book to be very easy to read, and very straightforward, but a little superficial. The appropach to many topics (back to work?, your career and your pregnancy, how your body changes) is so superficial, it almost seems like the author stuck in the chapters because she felt she had to, rather than because she had valuable information to present. Each chapter begins with a statement that is true, but so trite ("Pregnancy is an exciting time") that it seems as if the author is pandering to the reader. The book includes a number of short one-paragraph anecdotes about women and their preganncies. Again, I found most of these anecdotes to be very superficial, without enough detail to make them very interesting or useful. One thing I found to be VERY odd -- the author has "Time-Saving, Energy-Saving Tips" in every chapter, set aside & highlighed in the text. These time-saving tips have absolutely NOTHING to do with the text. For example, in the chpater on your baby's growth, sandwiched in the paragraph in which the author is discussing whether a baby can perceive sounds within the womb, the set-aside tip is If you don't have time to wash your hair, try puttling baby powder in it, brush it out, and style as usual (something I learned from Glamour magazine twenty years ago, but didn't expect to read in a pregnancy book). In the chapter on being a single mother, the "Time-Saving, Energy-Saving Tip" is as follows -- "If your kids string beads or have projects that have a lot of small parts, one easy way to keep them neat is to use an ice-cube tray to hold everything in easy to get to compartments." As if what to do with your kid's craf supplies is the most pressing issue facing an unmarried pregnant woman. The author has tips on how to get spilled soda stains out of carpet, how to store plastic bread bags and grocery bags in old paper towel tubes, and things like that -- and these tips are often more detailed than her tips about pregnancy. One of my favorite "Time-Saving, Energy-Saving Tips", that gets equal billing with bead organization & stain removal is "If you have other children at home, make plans for someone to pick them up from day care or school if you go into labor when they are not at home. Update school or day-care permission foirms to include those whom you want to pick up your children." Duh (my reaction to a lot of stuff in the book). Another anoying fact is the tremendous amount of redundance & repetition. Like magazine & newspaper articles, the author often takes sentences out of the text and highlights them in enlarge, italicized font -- so they are in the text AND in the highlighted form. Problem is, the highlights are often right next to the excerpted text, so you end up reading the same thing twice -- without anything else in between.

On the positive side -- the book is very easy to read, and it contains a great glossary of terms and list of resources. You won't need a copy of Household Hints from Heloise if you buy this, as the author tries to cover pregnancy and household management in one text. The book contains good illustrations. And (this is pretty important) -- this is a reassuring book about pregnancy, not a scary if-you-don't-eat spinach-and-walk-three-miles-a-day-your-baby-has-no-chance-of-being-normal book. Overall, this is okay, and it might be just the thing for some people, but I found it to be a little pandering & superficial.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just OK, April 12, 2006

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Shelley Cadamy "Shelley" (Oklahoma City, OK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Pregnancy after 35 (Paperback)

This book is OK, but not one that I would actually recommend. It's really simplistic and sometimes condescending. It's one of a series of "your pregnancy" books, and I really think that the authors took a basic "your pregnancy" book and slipped in a few bits on "after 35." There are paragraphs that are duplicated almost word for word, for example. The whole book really lacks substance.

Also, the authors write just about every paragraph in terms of the expecting "couple" which might be a given for some people, but I'm not a "couple," so it was a bit frustrating for me. I thought it might be more progressive, since there's a chapter on single motherhood, but again, this chapter seemed to be just stuck in. There wasn't a lot of continuity.

Finally, there are the "time saving" tips that are just odd. I felt like I was reading Good Housekeeping from 1955. The tips really have almost nothing to do with pregnancy. I felt like they were filler.

Hopefully, there are better books out there . . .

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars All concerns...no positives about being preg over 35, August 3, 2011

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momagain - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Pregnancy After 35: Revised Edition (Paperback)

After having three kids in my mid/late 20s, my husband and I decided to have another at age 39. I thought it would be great to find a book that talked about the differences.

What I found in reading this book is that it has no more info than any regular preg book-- less actually and the most frustrating part is that it only really addresses the negatives and "issues" you might have to deal with being over 35. There is not one word about the positives about having a baby when you are over 35.

I was so disappointed in this book. :(