The Working Woman’s Pregnancy Book

Given that I am looking to get pregnant soon and that I am a working woman, I recently picked up the The Working Woman’s Pregnancy Book.  Sounds pretty straight forward, doesn’t it?  I’m about halfway done (it’s a total of 572 pages so that’s not too bad) and I really like it.  The information is given in a [...]

Pre-Conception

This morning I went to the doctor for my “pre-conception” visit.  I don’t know exactly what I expected, but I came away feeling like there should have been more.  I mean this is a huge, life-altering thing we’re talking about doing, and the doctor just smiled and nodded and said, “Okay, so you want to [...]

Healthy Eating During Pregnancy

On to my next pregnancy book – Healthy Eating During Pregnancy, by Dr. W. Allan Walker (Harvard Medical School).  (In case you’re wondering how I go through so many, I read them at the gym while I’m on the treadmill – it helps pass the time and distracts me from the labor [no pun intended] [...]

Real Birthing Stories – A Request

The first pregnancy book I read was Girlfriend’s Guide to Pregnancy and as I had written previously, that didn’t go so well.  It was so bad, in fact, that it had me second-guessing my decision to even get pregnant.  So I moved on to the next book, Healthy Pregnancy over 35 and had a much [...]

Healthy Pregnancy Over 35

       This is the book that I am now reading.  It’s a far cry from my first attempt at pre-pregnancy education, Girlfriend’s Guide to Pregnancy.  Healthy Pregnancy Over 35 (by Laura Goetzl and Regine Hartford) is written as an informational book with no commentary or opinions thrown in, so it’s quite nice.  It is divided by sections with a [...]

Girlfriend’s Guide to Pregnancy

I wanted to like this book, I really did.  It was my first book on pregnancy and I wanted to go for the “girlfriend’s” point-of-view.  By that I mean I wanted to know what it’s like to be pregnant from someone who’s been there, not from a male doctor who studies the female anatomy all [...]