The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy: Second Edition
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Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Parenting & Relationships, Humor & Entertainment
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Parenting & Relationships, Humor & Entertainment
Book Type: Paperback
Kayote B. (kayote) reviewed on + 254 more book reviews
This was an awful book. It was the first pregnancy book I picked up at the suggestion of a friend, and I will be highly suspicious of her suggestions in the future. I didn't finish it. The only useful thing I got out of it was that gas and burps were normal--since I had a rash of them!
Otherwise--if she was my girlfriend it'd be someone I wasn't trying to see. This idiot makes a fuss about not exercising out of a very small risk to the kid (unless of course you insist on overdoing it, which is what she does because she's an idiot). Yet she insists pregnant women should have all sorts of random chemicals dumped in their hair because otherwise their husband's will leave them if their hair isn't colored (maybe one shouldn't have kids with such a shallow idiot?)
It just goes on and on and on like that. I expected some of the tone, I expected some attitude and opinions. I didn't expect them to be from an incredibly shallow twit. Really, she weaned her poor kid after 6 weeks to see if she could lose weight faster? Really? Someone who dyes her hair, throws things at her husband when she's pregnant, can't manage to not overdo exercise (thus no one should exercise), and weans her kid to see if she can lose weight faster--this is who someone paid to write a book? Oh, and she flat has so much of medical risks and methods wrong for what goes on now (being someone who just had a kid, rather than someone who is at least several years out) to be really bad. The risks being wrong on tests is bad.
I'm horrified I paid actual money for this book, and really wish I'd taken it back. Go find the Mother of All Pregnancy Books. It's also written with a light touch, but by someone who actually has done the research and has some clue what she's talking about (from more than just having gone through it repeatedly and unplanned). It had a lot more useful and calming information and descriptions while still being good to read.
Otherwise--if she was my girlfriend it'd be someone I wasn't trying to see. This idiot makes a fuss about not exercising out of a very small risk to the kid (unless of course you insist on overdoing it, which is what she does because she's an idiot). Yet she insists pregnant women should have all sorts of random chemicals dumped in their hair because otherwise their husband's will leave them if their hair isn't colored (maybe one shouldn't have kids with such a shallow idiot?)
It just goes on and on and on like that. I expected some of the tone, I expected some attitude and opinions. I didn't expect them to be from an incredibly shallow twit. Really, she weaned her poor kid after 6 weeks to see if she could lose weight faster? Really? Someone who dyes her hair, throws things at her husband when she's pregnant, can't manage to not overdo exercise (thus no one should exercise), and weans her kid to see if she can lose weight faster--this is who someone paid to write a book? Oh, and she flat has so much of medical risks and methods wrong for what goes on now (being someone who just had a kid, rather than someone who is at least several years out) to be really bad. The risks being wrong on tests is bad.
I'm horrified I paid actual money for this book, and really wish I'd taken it back. Go find the Mother of All Pregnancy Books. It's also written with a light touch, but by someone who actually has done the research and has some clue what she's talking about (from more than just having gone through it repeatedly and unplanned). It had a lot more useful and calming information and descriptions while still being good to read.
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