Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy
Monday, April 5th, 2010 at
10:51 am
- ISBN13: 9780060746377
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This new Mayo Clinic book on pregnancy provides you with practical information and reassurance on pregnancy and childbirth. Compiled by Mayo Clinic experts in obstetrics, it offers a clear, thorough and reliable reference for this exciting and sometimes unpredictable journey. This comprehensive book includes: A month-by-month look at mom and baby In-depth “Decision Guides” to help you make informed decisions on topics such as how to select a health care provider, p… More >>
Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy
Tagged with: Clinic • Guide • Healthy • Mayo • Pregnancy
Filed under: Postnatal Depression
Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!
I found this book a little too technical… I didn’t find any information for irregular periods… it does not even mention it…
Rating: 3 / 5
I’ve read several other pregnancy books written by doctors. I could tolerate them, they had helpful tips, there was a human being on the other side writing the book. But this is soo bad, soo medical, that if you can read even ten pages of this book you deserve an award. What is in this book that will actually make you healthy? It’s called healthy pregnancy, what exactly are the health tips gained here?
I suppose if you completely buy into the medicalized way of birth, with nearly a 30% cesearan rate, 250,000 birth defects per year, of which about half are serious, 500,000 miscarriages and nearly 25,000 early infant deaths, then, please, get this book. You cannot get more filled with medical terminology and theories to confuse you and make you feel like you don’t know anything, then is in this book.
The text is extremely dry, the advice is not clear, and it is all about talking about problems without real solutions.
It recommends the FLU shot while pregnant, which is completely stupid since it is loaded with mercury, (remember, no mercury during pregnancy??) duh, but still, it recommends that. The book makes it seem as if medical surgery and procedures is the only way to go. The Questions and Answers section may be it’s only redeeming quality.
Review is by Ramiel Nagel author of Healing Our Children: Because Your New Baby Matters! Sacred Wisdom for Preconception, Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting (ages 0-6).
Rating: 2 / 5
I received this book very quickly and in perfect condition. Happy to do business w/ you!
Rating: 5 / 5
The info in this book was always very high-level. If you are like my husband and I, you may find youself visiting websites weekly to read about fetal development. If so, don’t bother to buy this book. It NEVER had any more info than I got online!! Even on specific issues such as gestational diabetes screening, the info was never more than the few paragraphs you find on every pregnancy website. So I found it to be a total waste of money & I rarely opened it.
Furthermore, DO NOT TAKE ADVICE ON LABOR & BIRTH from this book. It states, “There is nothing you can do to prevent a C-section.” THIS IS TOTALLY FALSE! First, right off-the-bat, the rate of c-section varies wildly among practicioners. Picking a health care provider with a lower c/s rate will lower your risk. Secondly, getting an epidural doubles your risk of c/s – so there is PLENTY you can do to lower your risk. (Sure, you can’t 100% prevent it, but you CAN substantially lower your risk.) I highly recommend “The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth” to find out the REAL FACTS on OB procedures. You do not want to just blindly trust your practicioner.
Rating: 2 / 5
I bought this book when I found out I was pregnant and now that I’m almost 9 months pregnant, I can say it has answered most of my questions. No book is going to give you the details you want, but this book proves to be helpful in most matters. I do wish the section on the baby’s development month by month was more detailed and explained more about what’s happening in the womb. I also own What to Expect While You’re Expecting, and although the Mayo Clinic book tends to be a little more serious and technical, they basically contain the same information.
Rating: 4 / 5