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Before Your Pregnancy: A 90 Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception
This book has some very good information in preparation to get pregnant. The sections on the vitamins and minerals gets very text-book like. I think I expected a little more in this book about getting ready to help boost your rate of conception, like more on the whole timing and ovulation part of it all. While it did have some of this information, I was hoping for more. It was a good read, but really a great deal of the same info can be found in most pregnancy books that cover the "before". Overall, still good to read before you are ready to start trying, but takes a very cautious outlook.
Before Your Pregnancy: A 90 Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception
Very informative and easy to understand book. I like the fact that it has suggestions for men as well as women. I also like how it tells why certain things are recommended and it also shows different points of views. You can learn a lot from this book and make wise decisions that fit your lifestyle.
Before Your Pregnancy: A 90 Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception
I'm only about halfway through the book right now but it is good so far. I think that it is great for 1st time moms who are concerned about being ready for pregnancy. I think that a lot of what it teaches is common sense type stuff, but it can be a good re-enforcer to get you in the right mindset while trying to conceive. I would recommend this book for couples planning to start a family, rather than unplanned pregnancies, but it could still be helpful. As I said, I'm only about halfway through, but the friend of mine that recommended the book said that she thought that the end of the book was a bit of a letdown. She hoped that there would be more to it.
Before Your Pregnancy: A 90 Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception
This book is ok. I didn't bookmark any pages for future reference until I was almost done with the book and these were for after the baby is born for nutrition information. I am almost finished reading The Mother of All Pregnancy Books and highly recommend it over this one. I have never been pregnant and my husband and I are trying for our first baby. This book just scared me (for lack of a better term) and left me feeling uninformed. I was also disappointed that it kept telling me to check with my physician before doing this or that, obviously I would, although I understand they feel a need for a disclaimer in this day in age of complete lack of common sense. Overall, I would still with the Mother of All Pregnancy books over this one.
Before Your Pregnancy: A 90 Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception
I really wanted to like this book. I wasn't even expecting it to have lots of information that I didn't already know, having done a ton of research myself in my role as fertility counselor, but thought that it would be slightly helpful at least. It was not. It was instead incomplete and incorrect.Conclusions made are inconsistent - thing A is to be treated with caution because its safety for pregnant women is unproven, whereas thing B is considered safe because it has never been shown to cause problems. Where is the logic here? There is no difference between "never been shown to cause problems" and "safety unproven". And if there is a difference in the proven safety of these two things, it should be stated explicitly rather than left at these two vague comments.Some statements are just plain incorrect. For example, it is stated that ovulation is the day of the basal body temperature rise, when in fact the temperature rise usually occurs the day following ovulation. Also, intercourse on this day is stated to give the best chance of conception. This is incorrect whichever way you look at it - intercourse on the day of the temperature rise is usually too late (being the day after ovulation, the egg is often dead by then), and intercourse on the day of ovulation is still not the best timing (for those who are interested, intercourse the day before ovulation is best, although difficult to time). I have to wonder what other "facts" in this book are downright wrong.Finally, conclusions are drawn without sharing the information used to make them. It is claimed that a woman who has no immunity to rubella must get vaccinated, stating that the potential risks of the vaccine far outweigh the benefits. Nowhere is it mentioned that an adult woman receiving the rubella vaccine has much higher risk of serious medical conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and thrombocytopenia, and that according to the CDC the incidence of rubella in the US is extremely low. Whether or not the benefits of this vaccine outweigh the risks is something for women to decide for themselves, with all pertinent information.Now, I would expect a book written by two doctors to side more often with medical gospel than not, but I was very surprised by the lack of portrayal of the other side of the issues. Or more to the point, that some things were treated as complete non-issues: women are encouraged to run right out and get the flu and chicken pox shots, with no mention of their risks or efficacy.I should say that I did find the information on weight, diet, and exercise to be very thorough and mostly consistent with other reading I have done. Still, I simply cannot recommend this book.
Before Your Pregnancy: A 90 Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception
I am usually too lazy to bother to type reviews. However, I HAD to write on on this book. If you are like me in that you want from a pre-pregnancy/pregnancy book:- thoroughness- inclusiveness- reliability- readibilitythen you will not be disppointed by this book. I bought this first, before I conceived, to make sure that I was doing all I could/ should to prepare my body for pregnancy. This book addressed the whole range of issues related to this, and in a very clear, readable (lots of graphics to explain things) yet extremely authoritative manner. The authors have their credentials and this comes through clearly.I have very high expectations of books, especially when they are on such an important topic as pregnancy. Up-to-date info. is mandatory--not optional--and this books has it.After I became pregnant, I bought many other pregnancy books, but kept coming back to this one. The others are better for describing what is going on month-by-month, etc., but NONE are better for general medical reference info. For example, this is the only book I have found that breaks down herbs into 3 categories ("Safe During Pregnancy", "Herbs That Warrant Caution" and "Herbs to Avoid") and clasifies every major herb you are likely to encounter (in teas, body creams, etc.). They also describe common concerns/ probelms in a very user-friendly yet authoritative manner, and told me all I needed to know about continuing to exercise safely throughout pregnancy. Plus the tone of the book is very positive, reassuring and upbeat.I can't say enough about this book. It is my pregnancy bible.