What To Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding (Paperback)

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Product Description
Our newest delivery is a hilarious send-up of the perennial bestseller, What To Expect When You're Expecting. Just as that title has informed millions of new mothers about neonatal care, What to Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding addresses issues that confront new fathers. A funny but practical manual to guide expectant fathers through the joyous yet traumatic period of impending parenthood, it reviews issues like "what you wife will be complaining about" and "how to avoid sympathetic pregnancy." What to Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding informs, entertains, and gives fathers one last laugh.

About the Author
A native of Ithaca, N.Y., Thomas Hill is a creative executive for Nick@Nite and TV Land. A veteran of Harvard, the United States Chess Federation, and fatherhood, Thomas has five children and lives with his family in Verplanck, N.Y. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; 1 edition (May 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836280180
• ISBN-13: 978-0836280180
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (72 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #207,934 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First Month: Buy this book, October 1, 2002

By A Customer

It took me too long to finish this book ... because my wife kept stealing it since it was a lot more fun than any of her pregnancy books! However, I just finished this easy read, and I couldn't help but recommend this to fathers-to-be.

Let's be clear: this isn't an instruction manual or anything to take too seriously. It is a very fun, month-by-month account of pregnancy.

For the people who gave it low ratings, maybe you were looking for too much out of it ... this book isn't going to stop your wife's morning sickness and it isn't going to teach you the secret to triple your income before the baby is born. However, it might lighten what can be a time of emotional highs and lows, filled with fear, ecstasy, anxiety and elation, often all at the same time.

Seriously, there are plenty of good books out there which give great suggestions for how to handle the upcoming changes in your lives. Check out "The Expectant Father" or books of that ilk ... but to loosen up a little bit and have fun while getting involved in the pregnancy, get this book. Just don't read any of it to your wife until you've finished it, or you won't see it until she's finished reading it herself.

80 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very, very funny book, February 18, 1999

By	John Rosevear (Massachusetts USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Brilliantly done comic relief for the overstressed expectant father who is a little burned out on pregnancy info. Each month of pregnancy has its own chapter, and each chapter begins with "what she'll be complaining about this month". The book probably doesn't have tons of useful info, and shouldn't be approached that way, but it is very funny and does serve to get you into the right mindset. If you're a newly-pregnant woman, and your partner is resisting the harder reading, start him off with this one. THEN give him the hard stuff...

37 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars make sure you know what you want from the book, July 27, 2002

By A Customer

I gave this book 2 stars because, although it was not for me, I am willing to accpet some people may like it. I am excited, scared and very curious about my wife's pregnancy. I have never seen her look prettier and happier. I bought the book thinking it might give me the "inside story" to the secrets and mysteries of the mother of my child. I wanted to know what I could do to make these 9 months the best experience for her. What I got was a --humorous?-- vision of the torture it is for a man to have a pregnant wife. It was no help at all; it was offensive and embarassing.
My wife, however, thought it was funny. She has an amazing sense of humor, I guess. She gave it to our neighbors, who are also expecting their first child, and they loved it. Like they love Dave Barry and The Far Side books.

I guess what I'm saying is: if you want to laugh like you would watching Seinfeld, then sure. This is it. If you want to understand your wife better, or find out how to make her life easier during the time she carries and nurtures your child, then look somewhere else.