The Complete Guide to Pregnancy and Birth - Dr Miriam Stoppard

I am not sure if this is the same book as reviewed by others. It is the Dr Miriam Stoppard s Complete Pregnancy and Birth Handbook. It is a Dorling Kindersley publication. My particular edition is the revised 2000. The cost of the book was £5.99. The cover of the book is paper. It is white with a lovely picture of Dr Stoppard herself and a happy baby, a happy mum and a happy dad! How nice! Not stereotypical at all! Oh no!! Unfortunately this element is the one thing I hate about Miriam Stoppard, her old fashioned values of the nuclear family! Euch! Any way back to the book, the first page is a beautiful picture of a mummy kissing a sleeping ...

Back when everyone lived in large, extended families, the odds were that even if you didn't know anything about sex, you knew all about the results. Most women would approach their first baby armed with a wealth of second hand information. These days, many women have never held a baby, changed a nappy or seen anyone breastfeed before they approach parenthood themselves. As we live in smaller families and have less expereince of other people's babies, we have to get our knowledge from somewhere. (some people of course will opt to try and get through without swatting up, but most women like to have some idea of what's going on and it does help if you ...

I was leant this book by a friend of mine when I first started trying for a baby. It was great in the early days, as it was my only pregnancy book and it was all new and exciting. I knew nothing and wanted to read everything. Back then, I thought that it was quite a good book. Now I have changed my mind and it is one of many pregnancy books in the bedroom. I haven't dipped into it for weeks. It just isn't up to the standards of the others I have. POSITIVES It covers most things that you will need to know and the earlier sections on pre-pregnancy are good. Often this is neglected by books that assume the reader is already pregnancy when buying it. ...