Reviews for Congratulations - You're Pregnant! Now What?: An Organizational Guide Through Pregnancy

The average rating for Congratulations - You're Pregnant! Now What?: An Organizational Guide Through Pregnancy based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-01-21 00:00:00 Jason Sperry Completely useless. Most of the info contained within can be easily gleaned from the internet with a few cursory searches. If you don't know it's good for you to eat healthy food, be at a healthy weight and not smoke when you're trying to conceive you shouldn't be contributing to the human race anyway. She also assumes that every woman out there wants to make babies as fast as they can, but what about the people who have misgivings? No advice for them? The author is not a doctor and she doesn't cite any sources for the "research" she's done. She also uses ridiculous acronyms like TTC (trying to conceive,) BD (baby dance aka sex,) and O (for ovulation.) This is dumb. I don't care if people use these on message boards like she claims they do, but if you type BD instead of sex I'm going to kick you in the face. Also, a lot of her recommendations are to talk to your doctor. What prescriptions are ok? Talk to your doctor. How can I lose weight if I'm 30lbs overweight? Talk to your doctor. Obviously I wouldn't trust a book for some of these things, but really, is that the best she's got? She wrote a book about pre-conception and her best advice is to seek someone else's? Thankfully, I checked this book out from the library. Feel free to give it a glance if you're curious, but don't waste money on something you can easily get for free, or from your doctor.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-10-13 00:00:00 Stephen mcguinness I didn't totally hate this, even with all the mealy-mouthed cutesy bullshit (I say this solemnly and with purpose: if any of you ever catch me unironically using the phrase "baby dancing" instead of just saying sex, do us all a favor and insert bullet into brain post haste, please and thank you). I didn't even hate her complete aversion to showing her work and, you know, citing like a fucking professional. I didn't even hate the entire 50 words she devoted to noticing that, ohmygosh, there are people planning to get pregnant who aren't heterosexual, monogamous, and married! Or even how thirty of those fifty words were misleading as to law and facts. (They didn't even get in the same zip code as my circumstances, let alone the same ballpark, but go figure.) Really though. If you're writing a book to educate people about pre-conception health, and I come stumbling along, fresh and blinking and largely uneducated from a life of avowed childfreedom with all my childfree friends, and your book on pre-conception health only manages to teach me four things I didn't already know? You're doing it wrong.