The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy Author: Vicki Iovine | Language: English | ISBN:
141652472X | Format: PDF
The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy Description
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Newsweek Leaving the medical domain to the medical professionals, Iovine focuses on the practical, social, emotional, and physiological aspects of pregnancy....Iovine and her gaggle of Girlfriends are ready with reassuring and frequently irreverent advice.
USA Today With great humor and frankness, Iovine addresses the topics most women talk about only with their best friends.
American Baby A lighthearted, helpful, and brutally honest book from someone who understands. You'll laugh and learn about what to aid (perms, maternity clothing stores), what generally can't avoid be avoided (hemorrhoids, a tendency to worry about everything), and what not to be afraid of (if you're having amniocentesis, that big needle; turning into your mother). And if you feel as though you've embarked on a nine-month-long ride on a roller coaster, the chapter called "Pregnancy Insanity" will reassure you that you're normal.
People A laugh-out-loud primer for unseasoned moms-to-be.
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About the Author
Vicki Iovine is the mother of four teenage children. Since the success of
The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy, she has gone on to write several books in the Girlfriends' Guide series, has lent her expertise in columns for the
Los Angeles Times and
Child magazine, and has served as a relationships correspondent for
Redbook. She has also been a parenting correspondent on the
Today show,
Oprah, and
The View. Vicki lives in Los Angeles with her children and husband, Jimmy Iovine.
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; 2nd edition (January 9, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 141652472X
- ISBN-13: 978-1416524724
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Good stuff: She gives really good advice on certain topics such as not to be embarrassed or afraid of wasting your doctor's time. She helps explain how your relationship with your OB is very different from any other doctor. She is also very reassuring and helps you prepare for any number of gross and/or embarrassing issues that may come up during your pregnancy or delivery.
Bad Stuff: Oh boy does she have body issues!!!! There is barely a topic in the entire book that she doesn't relate back to the fact that you are fat and disgusting when you are pregnant. She herself went from a size four to a ten so she was hardly obese but she will simply not stop harping on how unattractive you are when you are pregnant. She also goes out of her way to let you know that not only she thinks pregnant women are by nature gross to look at but that your husband thinks you look gross. She describes her own husband as only having sex with her when she was bigger out of pity. She does include one brief blurb that some men might like the pregnant body shape and find it a turn on but it is written in a style that leaves no doubt that she finds this to be a rare and laughable quirk that some men might have. If she hasn't already managed to make you feel self conscience about your changing body there is a paragraph about how some men tend to cheat on their wives while they are pregnant if they aren't up for sleeping with their husbands or if their husbands can't stomach sleeping with a pregnant woman. Not just insulting to women but she reveals a very low opinion of men as well. Reducing them to bumbling creatures who are disinterested in their wives apart from a creature to have sex with and to have to put up with if she gets emotional.
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