Glade B. Curtis

I don't recommend this book if you want information in a straight forward manner or any autonomy in your decisions. The chapters are filled with information that won't apply at the time (3rd trimester concerns in a 1st trimester week) or just random information throughout the book. These should have been organized in a different section instead of filler for each chapter.
Another huge problem is the "advice" the authors give because it's them telling you what to do not giving you good show more information. You want to lay on your back at 16 weeks even though the fetus is less than 3oz.? How could you! Thinking about home birth? How dare you! Want a Doula? Only if your doctor says it's okay and that they are comfortable! This attitude is repeated throughout the book where you have to do exactly what they say or bad things will happen. You aren't suppose to choose anything for yourself and your baby because the author is a doctor so what do you know?
There are better pregnancy books available that aren't so condescending and I recommend you go buy one of those instead. show less

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.

I am going to be a father for the first time, and at a late age to boot. I also admit to being generally clueless so any book on pregnancy and fatherhood is handy.

This book, "Your Pregnancy for the father-to-be" however, seems to be aimed at the monumentally thick amongst of us. For if the authors feel it necessary to warn us not to call our pregnant partners fat, then I fear for the future of humanity. Indeed, I would rather that dad's to be that didn't know better did tell their partners show more that they were fat, as at least it would remove some dead wood from the gene pool.

This is the second edition I am reviewing and I am catching some older style "views" of relationships, including suggestions that you include your partner in major financial decisions. If I spend $10 without my partner knowing I'm in trouble. show less

My insurance sent me this book, which I thought was really nice until I started reading it. While it is informative, it is also scary! Every few pages they seem to insert a "what you should fret about now" section, the contents of which range from horrifying and rare to ridiculously silly ("Pregnancy & Mad Cow Disease"--seriously?) In addition to being alarmist, I found this book very prescriptive and narrow: "do it this way or your baby's gonna get it." I have set this book aside. It's not show more for me. show less