Your Pregnancy Week by Week

by Judith Schuler

Your Pregnancy Week by Week is the most medically current and comprehensive pregnancy guide available. Doctors recommend it. Reviewers praise it. Pregnant couples rely on it. With over 70 new topics covered, and completely updated throughout to keep up with trends, new products, and safety recommendations, this comprehensive, authoritative, and easy-to-use guide
• Detailed descriptions of baby’s developmental milestones each week
• Clear illustrations of how both mother and baby are changing and growing
• Up-to-date information about medical tests and procedures
• Tips on nutrition and lifestyle and the ways actions affect baby
• Safe weekly exercises to help mother stay in shape and comfortable
• Helpful hints for the father-to-be and information on how a pregnancy affects a couple

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction, Adult, Health

664 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 3, 2007

Reviews

[Kristen Peppercorn · Rating 2 out of 5]

istg it was making shit up at times like saying drinking ANY green tea will fuck up your baby. and electric blankets too. i researched further and no other source mentioned these things as bad.

[Ensley · Rating 1 out of 5]

An actual quote from this book, giving advice to dads/partners: “With your partner feeling fatigued and possibly nauseous, she’ll probably appreciate you stepping up to help with the chores around the house. And with food aversions and nausea at their peak, you’ll want to either cook or order takeout-it may be the only way you get any food!”

WHAT. And in case your wondering, this book did not come out in 1950, that edition was published in 2014. No thanks.

[Autumn Bartels · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really liked this book at first but then got irritated because there were out lies written in this book. ANY pain meds taken during labor effect the baby.

In a nutshell this book isn't really for a person wanting a natural child birth. Im just disappointed that it gave false information after i did more research.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this layout the best of the "clinical" books I read. It truly walks you through things week by week. And it often seemed to best describe my own experiences.

i read it again with baby #2 and it was still a nice pregnsncy companion.

[Kelly Walton · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an informative book but for a low-risk pregnancy majority of the information isn’t needed as this book details every complication that may occur. I’d recommend “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” instead as I think it has a better approach. I like the week-by-week approach of this book but overall I felt like some of the information was outdated especially in the end about breastfeeding. There was only a small chapter about postpartum and breastfeeding and the information was extremely basic.

[Ashley Tovar · Rating 2 out of 5]

Panic/guilt inducing & poorly organized. Some good info but hard to take in. Read Yeah Baby by Jillian Michaels instead.

[A Ivy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informative book, but it spends too much time on every medical symptom/complication that the actual "this is what you probably are/will be experiencing" gets lost.

[Stefanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recommended by my doctor. Pretty accurate information and helpful to have the weekly layout.

[Cary · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was one of the more helpful pregnancy guides I came across while pregnant and I would recommend it.

[Stacy · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Appreciated having this book!

[Stacey · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh--this book simply is not very useful, particularly for moms-to-be who have done this before or even for first-time moms who have already done a lot of reading/research on what to expect with pregnancy. This was like a "Cliff's Notes" version of pregnancy manuals. The advice is too general, vague, and bland to actually be helpful. In fact, I found a few things about medications/potential complications/health problems that are not even entirely accurate.

The tried-and-true and more detailed/updated "What to Expect When You're Expecting" is vastly superior, and even more so are the dozens of good (free!) pregnancy apps.

The only people I could see this book working for, quite frankly, are those who are close to the expecting mama. A husband/sibling/friend who is invested enough to get a general idea of what mama-to-be is going through but doesn't need all the raw details that actual pregnant women needs. Or perhaps a woman/girl who would like to be pregnant "someday" and wants to get the gist of what that will be like.

[Kyla · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was going to read this week-by-week as my pregnancy progressed, but I got impatient. The book is broken into chapters that correspond with the weeks of pregnancy, followed by appendices on topics including fertility and deciding child care arrangements. The weekly chapters try to include information on various medical topics that might crop up around that time, but sometimes you just need to skip ahead to find the information you're looking for. Also, while I intended to read this cover-to-cover, I ended up skipping over some of the medical issues discussed because they weren't applicable or weren't a known issue for me (although it's good to know where to find information on those topics if something comes up).

[Shannon Kitchens · Rating 3 out of 5]

Before any freaks out when they see this - no, I'm not pregnant. (I'm really behind on my yearly book goal and I needed to add this for padding.) I read it for a friend. And it firmly convinced me that pregnant women should not read pregnancy books because they are filled with terrifying things that happen to like .00001% of people, but pregnant brain will just make them super paranoid.

This is a very medical book, full of terrifying things and over technical terms. Additionally, it's very subtly Christian, pro-life-y, inhospitable to career women, and generally condescending who doesn't buy into the whole "motherhood is the most important thing in life" dogma.

[Molly Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked having this book as a reference during my pregnancy. I first used it with my son and just finished it with my daughter. It really is a nice guide as to what is happening as well as a useful reference.

[Mario · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing! Our pregnancy matched almost all weeks word by word. I would recommend to read one or two weeks ahead tho, just in case the mother and baby develop faster than the current chapter. Love it!

[Sierra]

I only read the first 6 chapters. The title of the book should be: everything that could go wrong in your pregnancy week by week, especially if you have an an unhealthy lifestyle.

[B-right · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very much informative. Great work by the author.