What To Expect Review and Giveaway

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What to Expect When Expecting-Eighteen years after it first hit the shelves and having sold more than 10 million copies, What to Expect When You're Expecting is still on nearly every mother-to-be's reading list. The new fourth edition is filled with the most up-to-date information reflecting not only what's new in pregnancy, but what's relevant to pregnant women. Heidi Murkoff has rewritten every section of the book, answering dozens of new questions and including loads of new asked-for material, such as a detailed week-by-week fetal development section in each of the monthly chapters, an expanded chapter on pre-conception, and a brand new one on carrying multiples. More comprehensive, reassuring, and empathetic than ever, the Fourth Edition incorporates the most recent developments in obstetrics and addresses the most current lifestyle trends (from tattooing and belly piercing to Botox and aromatherapy). There's more than ever on pregnancy matters practical (including an expanded section on workplace concerns), physical (with more symptoms, more solutions), emotional (more advice on riding the mood roller coaster), nutritional (from low-carb to vegan, from junk food–dependent to caffeine-addicted), and sexual (what's hot and what's not in pregnant lovemaking), as well as much more support for that very important partner in parenting, the dad-to-be.

Overflowing with tips, helpful hints, and humor (a pregnant woman's best friend), this new edition is more accessible and easier to use than ever before. It's everything parents-to-be have come to expect from What to Expect... only better. 

What to Expect the Fist Year-a comprehensive and practical month-by-month guide that clearly explains everything parents need to know - or might be worrying about - in the first year with a new baby. Featuring dozens of Q&A sections, as well as a first aid guide and charts on monthly growth and development, feeding and sleeping habits, this is the only book on infant care to address both the physical and the emotional needs of the whole family. Covering the most up-to-date knowledge, both medical and developmental, WHAT TO EXPECT THE 1st YEAR is, above all, down-to-earth and reassuring - and an invaluable aid for all parents of new babies. 

What to Expect the Second Year-The essential sequel to What to Expect the First Year, with 9.7 million copies in print, What to Expect the Second Year picks up the action at baby’s first birthday, and takes parents through what can only be called “the wonder year”—12 jam-packed (and jam-smeared) months of memorable milestones (from first steps to first words, first scribbles to first friends), lightning-speed learning, endless explorations driven by insatiable curiosity. Not to mention a year of challenges, both for toddlers and the parents who love them, but don’t always love their behaviors (picky eating, negativity, separation anxiety, bedtime battles, biting, and tantrums).  Comprehensive, reassuring, empathetic, realistic, and practical, What to Expect the Second Year is filled with solutions, strategies, and plenty of parental pep talks. It helps parents decode the fascinating, complicated, sometimes maddening, always adorable little person last year’s baby has become. From the first birthday to the second, this must-have book covers everything parents need to know in an easy-to-access, topic-by-topic format, with chapters on growth, feeding, sleeping, behaviors of every conceivable kind, discipline (including teaching right from wrong), and keeping a toddler healthy and safe as he or she takes on the world. There’s a developmental time line of the second year plus special “milestone” boxes throughout that help parents keep track of their toddler’s development. Thinking of traveling with tot in tow? There’s a chapter for that, too!

My Take-What a wonderful informative books! In my opinion, these books are great for first time moms and a refresher for a second and third timers. When I became pregnant the first time, almost 25 years ago, when I was 20 years old, all I had as advice was from women that based everything on old wives tales and old fashioned remedies that were passed along in the rural counties in MS where more Mother grew up, including dipping your baby’s pacifier in honey to help him to hold on to it even if he was under 1 years old. Back then, it wasn't as easy to find out what to expect as you'd think and out of all my friends, I was the first to get married and then to become pregnant!  I am embarrassed to admit that bit of info, but thankfully someone introduced me What to Expect When Expecting.  It alone was so helpful in answering all my questions, and even giving me information I would never have thought about, like the dangers of honey.  When I became pregnant the second time, 6 years later at 27, I made sure I had a revised copy on hand!  For my third child, I didn’t need the same book but only because she was adopted but I did pick up What to Expect The First Year and What To Expect The Second Year”  Great new editions that I didn’t read with my first two children that helped me with questions, concerns and more that I had no longer remembered.  After all, it had been 16 years! The WTE First and Second Year series were and still are more beneficial for my husband who never had any children except for his step sons who were already 8 and 14 years old when we met. What we liked about the books was that the questions that are addressed are very much like real-life questions parents ask about their babies/toddlers. Some of the questions are word-for-word questions that my husband and I asked each other. There is only one thing I do not care about the books but can be overlooked. The information is supposedly unbiased, but the author comes down firmly on the pro or con side of an issue and there's not a lot of doubt about what the author feels you "should" or "should not" do. From being very pro breast feeding (very GREEN but some just can’t due to many different circumstances), against co-sleeping, against pacifiers and developmental milestones are to be followed strictly because there could be big issues if not. 

With that being said, I think all three books are a worthwhile addition to the library of any new parent! “All books are about information that makes your pregnant and baby life less stressful, more enjoyable, and, well, easier.”

GIVEAWAY

Two winners will receive copies of all three books!

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