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Let's Panic About Babies!: How to Endure and Possibly Triumph Over the Adorable Tyrant Who Will Ruin Your Body, Destroy Your Life, Liquefy Your Brain, and Finally Turn You into a Worthwhile Human Being
by
Alice Bradley,
Eden M. Kennedy (Goodreads Author)
BABIES. Maybe you’re thinking of having one. There might even be one inside you right now, draining nutrients from your system via a tube growing from its midsection. Or maybe you’ve already got one around the house, somewhere, and you’re responsible for its continued survival. You’re saddled with a helpless being whom you’ve agreed to house and feed and love with all
ebook, 288 pages
Published
March 1st 2011
by St. Martin's Griffin
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Too vulgar for me. But I think Table 16.1, "How to Fix the Dumb Stuff You Said," is hilarious.
Here's one:
Another one:
Here's one:
What you said: "Man, I am so tired."
Quick, backpedal: "And I haven't been working a tenth as hard as you have. You're amazing, did you know that?"
What you should have said: "Those boots you liked on Zappos.com -- let's order them. No, I will. You've done enough."
Damage control: Buy the boots, then make dinner.
Another one:
What you said: "How come I don't have any clean socks?"...more
Quick, backpedal
So this book cracked me up. There are a lot of laugh out loud funny parts. For Example: "Have you encountered dampness in the pants area whenever you chuckle at a Family Circus cartoon? Good news: you're not in early labor! You're only peeing on yourself". That may be only funny to those have experienced the joy of pregnancy, but I fit those requirements. I also felt inspired to get a shirt that says "I'm not fat. I'm just pregnant". Mine should probably more appropriately say "Yes, I'm fat, bu...more
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It was funny for about 100 pages. After that, it just seemed like the authors were trying way too hard to be quirky and funny. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more had I not read it all in one go.
Oh LOOK! A funny book about having a baby! Only it totally isn't It'll make you just as paranoid and hysterical about all the crap you don't know or understand as the "What To Expect When..." books will. They DO have lawyers at the publishing company after all. You CAN'T tell women that it's really probably fine to eat soft cheeses and that if they grew up with pets they're already immune to toxoplasmosis. And that if you don't breast feed your baby until it's like 13 years old it probably will...more
I read this book in between the more serious baby books, and it was good to get a break! Sometimes the book felt like, Eh, stop trying so hard to be funny, but most of the time, I appreciated the humor. Because, yes, babies are miracles and they are amazing, but also, pregnancy, labor and delivery, and actual caregiving can be weird and funny. Or sometimes horrible! But you need to laugh or at least approach it all with a lighter view. And this book helps with that! Also, as sarcastic as the boo...more
There is only one word to describe this book--HILARIOUS!!!! If you don’t have a sarcastic sense of humor, don’t even bother. It will most likely offend you. However, I thought this is, hands down, THE best “baby book” I have EVER read! (And I have read more than my fair share!) I would advise every mom-to-be to read this instead of the numerous other baby books that will simply perpetuate lie after lie. I plan to pass my copy around to unsuspecting mothers everywhere!
This book had me crying with laughter as I flipped the pages. It's easy to read, more of a coffee table book actually. If you've ever had a baby, or if you are a first time mom-to-be and need some comic relief after days spent wretching into the nearest receptacles, watching your ankles disappear, and worrying about the color you will paint the nursery walls, then this book is for you.
3.5 stars. This book was incredibly sarcastic and a bit crude at times, but still laugh-out-loud funny in multiple parts. There were some bits that were SO ON POINT that I found myself wanting to copy them down verbatim and email them to all of my favorite friends. Some parts were just "meh." I think you have to be in the right mood to read it. I kind of think of it as the pregnancy version of I Am America by Stephen Colbert... quite outlandish, but still rather satirical and accurate at parts....more
In its first two pages, this book elicited two lols, a chuffle, and a sustained grin.
Secret ambition: to pass this book onto Mike in hopes that he will no longer panic about babies and (maybe) decide to actually father one before my ovaries shrivel up for good.
p.s. Am I the only one who wants to type this book's title as Let's Panic! About Babies? Okay, good to know.
Secret ambition: to pass this book onto Mike in hopes that he will no longer panic about babies and (maybe) decide to actually father one before my ovaries shrivel up for good.
p.s. Am I the only one who wants to type this book's title as Let's Panic! About Babies? Okay, good to know.
I suspect, like every article in The Onion, the subtitle is the best part and the only part I should bother to read:
"Subtitle: How to Endure and Possibly Triumph Over the Adorable Tyrant who Will Ruin Your Body, Destroy Your Life, Liquefy Your Brain, and Finally Turn You into a Worthwhile Human Being."
"Subtitle: How to Endure and Possibly Triumph Over the Adorable Tyrant who Will Ruin Your Body, Destroy Your Life, Liquefy Your Brain, and Finally Turn You into a Worthwhile Human Being."
The vulgarity doesn't bother me - this book is SO over the top that it lost my attention and I basically just skimmed the whole thing. I like a humorous book to break up the 'serious' pregnancy books I've been reading, but I didn't have the attention for this one. They were trying WAY too hard.
Loved this book! I laughed so hard I cried. If you have had a difficult pregnancy or have felt at any point that pregnancy wasn't as beautiful and wonderful as everyone makes you feel like it should be, then this is the book for you. Also love the parts about cats and how they are out to get our baby seeing as that is what everyone keeps telling us.
Oh my God, why does this book exist? I do not understand. Perhaps people who don't have children (or more likely people who hate children) might find this funny, but I do not see how anyone with a baby they love could get beyond one page of this book without being irrevocably offended.
Even you are pregnant and drowning in all of the well meaning advice from friends, family, and other books, please pick up this book. In this satire the authors make wonderful points about pregnancy and are overreactions to it.
Just for the record, I am not pregnant, nor am I trying to become pregnant anytime in the near future. But Heather Armstrong (aka Dooce) recommended this and said it was hilarious, so it is probably worth checking out.
This book is hilarious and a nice antidote to all those serious pregnancy books that seem lecture-y. Not funny all the way through but fun to flip though when one gets tired of reading the other ones.
I probably shouldn't rate a book that I co-wrote, so the above five stars are for the parts that Eden wrote only. Although I can't remember which those are. At any rate, they're five-star-worthy. HER parts.
I don't think I really want to read this book as it appears that it will end up telling me babies are actually good. I prefer to disregard the last part of the title.
Oh heck, I would read it.
Oh heck, I would read it.
It's not quite funny enough to be great satire and not factual enough to be helpful, but there are a few laugh-out-loud bits (and it's relatively short). If you like babies with laser eyes, give it a whirl.
A hilarious guide to babies that makes it a perfect shower gift for every new mom......I was crying with laughter within 5 min. Of picking it up. The cover picture is priceless....
Simply wonderful parody of the thousands of overly serious bppks on childbirth and early parenting. Such a tonic for those of us reading way too much about their imminent grandbabies!
Mar 20, 2011
Marcy
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
childbirth-pregnancy,
parenting
I haven't read all the way thru this book, but instead am enjoying little morsels here and there....and both my husband and I are loving it so far. He was nearly in years the other night, reading the section on swaddling a newborn! I've been a fan of Alice Bradley's blog for a long time, and this book is very much in line with her blog's writing style and humor.
Mar 06, 2011
Stevie
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
2011,
what-s-up-with-my-uterus
This is the only book you really need as you prepare for childbirth. I laughed until I cried and felt like finally there was proof that pregnancy need not make you crazy.
Hilarious. I can't pick it up without laughing my head off every time. This book is great for when you are feeling overwhelmed about being pregnant, and need a break from the more serious baby books out there.
I tried. This just wasn't my cup of tea. A couple of parts made me snicker, but overall I thought the humor was trying too hard and it just didn't click for me.
Very funny at times, tediously over-the-top at others. This is a good book to read if you are out of your mind from baby-related stress or baby-book-related stress.
HEE-LAR-EE-OUS. Old-timey pictures meet extreme dry wit. Subject: pregnancy. Fun to discuss at cocktail parties and student council meetings.
Jan 07, 2012
Anie
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
expecting Mom's, Mom's in general
If you are expecting, planning to have a baby, or already have one I highly recommend this. It's a great satirical pregnancy and child care book. This was a gift from a friend of mine who knows I've been trying for a year and could use a little humor in my life.
This book contained far too little useful information to make it worth wading through the bad jokes. They just tried too hard to be funny.
This was definitely an entertaining book. Written to mock every other pregnancy book, I found the sarcasm quite amusing.
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