Yup, I'm a librarian asking for book recommendations. Do you have any pregnancy related books you just loved? I just went on Amazon to download "What to Expect When You're Expecting," and the reviews were shockingly bad. I was always under the impression that this is the go-to book but maybe not?
Post by sewpinkgal on Aug 21, 2012 18:46:51 GMT -5
I liked the Mayo Clinic Pregnancy book and received Your Pregnancy Week by Week from my insurance company and thought it was pretty good as well.
I HATED The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy even though it gets good reviews. Their section on exercise just pissed me off too much to read the rest of the book.
Mayo Clinic Guide to Pregnancy isn't bad. But honestly, I found that most of what was in the book was already in the Babycenter emails. I stopped reading it in 2nd tri.
I really liked Mayo Clinic's book. I also have "Nursing Your Baby" by Karen Pryor which was great for breastfeeding tips etc but it's obviously exclusively about breastfeeding. Besides that I just googled anything I wanted to know lol.
I didn't think What to Expect was awful. It had a lot of basic info and was easy to reference by month. It wasn't my favorite though. I really liked Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn. It had a lot of info on labor techniques and it was more "scientific" and really explained what was going on with my body versus something like the Girlfriend's Guide (blech!).
Post by badtzmaru22 on Aug 22, 2012 18:57:42 GMT -5
I liked What to Expect! It was very plain and straightforward. I skimmed a bit of the Girlfriend's Guide and it made me stabby. Same with Jenny McCarthy's Belly Laughs. A friend insisted I read it bc it was "hilarious". I should have known better!
If you want a BFing book, I LOVED Breastfeeding Made Simple. Not preachy, encouraged me to get through the first 40 days... Very helpful. Mentions BLW a little as well.
Me too. I wanted to go natural, so I focused on reading a lot of books on relating to that.
Oh, yes, please add books about med-free birthing to your collection! I loved anything by Ina May Gaskin. There was a book about hypnobirthing/positive imagery that I read, too, but I can't remember the title at all and I don't have it anymore.
For pregnancy, I also liked "From the Hips". "The Big Book of Birth" was pretty balanced for an overview of options, and then I got more into the natural birth stuff.
Pregnancy takes care of itself. I read a few more specific books ("Exercising through your pregnancy") and liked "The Panic Free Pregnancy" to sort through which recommendations are actually important. Mostly, I stuck to the alphamom calendar and the babble.com emails. I moved on to reading more birth, breastfeeding, and baby care books by mid-pregnancy. I liked "The Birth Partner", "Your Best Birth", "Eat, Sleep, Poop", "Happiest Baby on the Block".