Best pregnancy books?

[rosetyler]

I'm shopping for a copy of Panic Free Pregnancy. I already have What to Expect, any other good reads?

[HoneySpider]

I thought the Mayo Clinic guide was pretty decent.

[Deleted]

Nah. Pregnancy books are boring. Sign up for an email that's week by week and you're good; spend your time reading about birth and babies.

I do really like Panic Free Pregnancy, but you'll probably find it opposes WTE (which is pretty much the Panic-Full Pregnancy book).

[ladygrey]

I have the Mayo Clinic book and Expecting 411 - they're both good, although the Mayo book is pretty clinical.

[blindyswife]

I had My Pregnancy Week by Week. But it's not a lot different as the weekly emails you can get from baby center and the like, as pp mentioned.

[rosetyler]

Ok, maybe I'll just stick to weekly emails and save my $12. I got WTE for free, and kind of hated it.

Token (or others), any email lists you found especially helpful?

[joolz]

I have the What to Expect app and I liked the weekly babycenter emails. I had What to Expect and liked it fine once I was out of the first trimester.

[sewf]

I liked the Mayo Clinic book. Right now I'm reading Heading Home With Your Newborn and Happiest Baby on the Block, but I'm toward the end of my pregnancy. They are both good books for FTM though. I'm pretty comfortable with babies, but I realized that there is so much I don't know about actually raising the kid!

[osulori]

I have the Mayo Clinic book on my Kindle, and just borrowed paper copies of the Girlfriend's Guide and Your Pregnancy Week by Week from a friend....haven't gotten a chance to read them yet though. The same friend also threw in My Boys Can Swim for J...he hasn't started it yet but laughs every time he looks at the cover. It's gonna be a long nine months, I think.

[imoan]

I decided against pregnancy books. From what I could tell, I could get the information I was looking for from week-by-week pregnancy apps (like What to Expect and Babycenter) and friends. Everything else seems to be repetition of the same basic information and common sense. And I avoided WTE like the plague... I don't like fearmongering. A coworker gave me a copy of it... I took a quick look through it and it wasn't a good enough book to make being TERRIFIED I was going to lose the baby every second worth it.

I've heard good things about the Mayo Clinic book and The Panic Free pregnancy.

[Deleted]

I think last time I was on the babble.com list, but I'm not sure if they still do the week by week emails. They seem to have been bought out by Disney and made totally impossible to navigate. Thus far, I'm just peeking at the alphamom.com calendar.

[horseoutside]

I really like Panic Free Pregnancy. Other than that I just have the Mayo Clinic guide to pregnancy

[niki]

Dec 13, 2012 10:44:59 GMT -5 rosetyler said:

I'm shopping for a copy of Panic Free Pregnancy. I already have What to Expect, any other good reads?

Walk straight over to the trash and throw away WTE. Crap. Pure crap.