The Healthy Pregnancy Book

Month by Month, Everything You Need to Know from America's Baby Experts (The Sears Parenting Library)

By: William Sears MD, Martha Sears RN, Linda Holt MD, B. J. Snell PhD CNW

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

From America's leading authorities in childcare comes the definitive guide to having a healthy pregnancy - and a healthy baby.

The Healthy Pregnancy Book guides expectant mothers and fathers through all stages of pregnancy from preconception through birth, focusing on how to enhance the health of mother and baby.

• How to grow a smarter and healthier baby
• How your baby is developing and how you may be changing both emotionally and physically
• Eating right for two, with a helpful list of pregnancy superfoods
• Exercise and keeping fit during your pregnancy
• Concerns and questions you may have about test and technology, genetic counseling, and childbirth options
• How to protect the womb environment and recognize potential household hazards
• Advice on working while pregnant
• Choosing the right healthcare provider and childbirth class
• The transition into parenthood
• And much more

Authored in the Searses' trademark reassuring tone that makes their guides long-term best-sellers - The Healthy Pregnancy Book is the must-have resource to fit the greater demands of today's savvy parents.

©2019 William Sears, MD, Martha Sears, RN, Linda Holt, MD, and B. J. Snell, PhD, CNW (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Not into it

I'm not pregnant. I enjoy researching pregnancy, labor, and delivery in my spare time. It's fun for me so I've read a lot of these books.

This particular book is very bias towards the perfect female form and fairly preachy. They clearly have a mind set early on that you cannot be your own person and have a baby. I wanted more science than that.

I understand that being healthy gives your baby better chances but they talk for ages over the same details without giving advice that equates to more than "get fit".

They say things like "don't wait to have a baby" but tell the reader to get fit like it doesn't take a long time to get fit.

I'm just annoyed with the whole thing. I'm DNF'ing this thing because I don't want to listen to someone harp on and on about how people shouldn't be anything other than thin, they shouldn't take medications, they shouldn't have any mental health problems whatsoever. Like damn, who should be having kids then?

I picked this up so that I could learn more about the various stages of pregnancy from experts. I did not pick this up to be lectured. I'm not into it.