I much prefer this book to the "What to Expect When you are Expecting" book that is so popular. This book gives you more details and less moments of intense worry about your growing child.

It is also wonderful to be able to read just a few pages to keep up to date on your developing child when your toddler is begging for attention. ( )

It is a quick week by week guide. I liked it now for my second child; but for a first baby I would recommend something a little more extensive and detailed. It worked well for what I wanted it: just to remember what's going on. ( )

I found this book to be helpful when I was pregnant. It was interesting to follow the development of my baby, and know what sort of things to expect as the pregnancy progressed. I think this was my favorite of the pregnancy books that I read. ( )

This book should perhaps be subtitled "or everything that can ever go wrong during the course of a pregnancy". I do like the week by week developmental information and diagrams, but I think the author spends a bit too much time on the extremely rare things that can go wrong - especially since this is just a general pregnancy book. I guess that's pretty par for course though for mainstream medical/pregnancy books, which I find quite unfortunate. The book could definitely use a much better treatment for natural childbirth - it is only mentioned in week 40, far too late to take a class, think about it, learn anything more, etc. But, again, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised as this is a very mainstream book. ( )