I'm Pregnant!: A week-by-week guide from conception to birth

Very unexpectedly big and nice quality paper book. Colorful and illustrative

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A Must read for expecting mothers

I bought several books to read as an expectant father - to brace myself for the journey ahead, as well as to help empathize with what my wife was dealing with. This was the one I really latched onto. It’s an honest attempt at comprehensively covering about every aspect of the journey in a digestible and positive way. I appreciated the way the book was organized, the attractive media, and the form/weight of the paperback (which I lugged around everywhere). I’m not directly physically experiencing the pregnancy, but the info from the book served as great fodder for discussion with my wife (who is) and I can honestly say there wasn’t one thing experienced in our journey that wasn’t at least touched on in the book. The only thing I noted as an American reader is that there is a minor bend towards midwives and natural birthing that just isn’t as common in the USA. So it explores these practices in a bit more detail than I needed. And really this was the only way I figured out (halfway through my reading) that the author is UK-based. I could really tell she cares about the successful pregnancy of her readers. I definitely recommend the book.

Unless you’re SUPER interested in the medical science of pregnancy, this book is extremely overkill. I couldn’t tell from the images and didn’t read the page count but it’s large-format paperback and 430+ pages!!!! It’s gigantic. (And I read a lot so I’m not, like, opposed to big books.) Tbh I’ve been satisfied with websites that offer week by week info.This book is also extremely heteronormative. Although I appreciate the effort in changing “husband” to “partner” throughout, the partner is always assumed to be male, the father of the child, and cohabiting with you, the pregnant woman. There’s a tiiiiiiiiny acknowledgment near the beginning that this isn’t everyone’s situation, but then the 400+ remaining pages just act like it is. Listen, my male husband is the father of my child and we do live together but geez, the world is much more various and vibrant than assuming everyone is in this situation. Poor editing review imo, and it’s copyrighted 2019 so it’s not like this is old and nobody knew better.

The pictures are good, the intent is good, but there are entire pages that need to be ripped out of this book because they are totally sexist. I'd like the authors to be aware that we're in the 21st century. On page 77 there is a section called "What your partner may be thinking". The entire list needs to be completely redone, but the worst of the worst is the statement "Is she more fragile than she was before?" Excuse me? We don't live in the 1950s, women are not and were never fragile, and the fact that men used to think that doesn't mean they are still sexist. I suggest you interview men in their 30s and start that list from scratch. Ladies this is just one example of total ignorance and sexism. The section on IVF is horrible. my recommendation for the author is to stay out of the subject altogether or get an expert Reproductive Endocrinologist OBGYN to write it for you because you have some things totally incorrect. I'm sorry but this has not been a good book if you don't want to be reminded of the good old days when women were fragile and the strong men didn't want to be involved in the pregnancy. This book needs a make-over BIG TIME. Someone needs to tell the author that her fly is down and she's got food stuck between her teeth. Ladies we deserve a woke pregnancy book. and I do not recommend this book until they make some vital changes/corrections.