This was my favorite pregnancy book.

This book was a great reasource during my pregnancy.

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This is a much better alternative to What To Expect When You're Expecting. If you have time to read one book about pregnancy, childbirth and baby care for the first few weeks of its life, this can definitely fill a lot of gaps, leave you with resources and questions to further get you what you need.

I recommend this book to anyone looking to find basic information on pregnancy, birth, and postnatal care. It's big, a little unwieldy, but definitely useful.

I loved the way this book gave me straight forward advice and explanations for what was happening to me each week. I read this and What to Expect because I found they worked well together to combine my need for information with my need to understand the emotional side of what I was experiencing. This is the problem I have with being a little bit of both left and right-brained.

Lots of information, well organized. Amusing tone.

such a great pregnancy and newborn resource! i suggest it to all of my expecting friends!

I only look at this book every few weeks or when I have a pregnancy question. It gives simple but thorough answers to the questions I've had.

Ah, hindsight. I can say fully that this book was tremendously helpful during my pregnancy and through my daughter's first year. Wonderful mother/daughter nurse duo who know their stuff.

I'm enjoying the info from this book. A good reference on everything pregnancy and baby.

This is an awesome book for the newly pregnant! It has week by week development stages and is more medically based than some of the other pregnancy books that I've been reading.

I've just come across Great Expectations in my professional role as a perinatal relationship specialist. I wish it had been available for me to read when I was pregnant with my first. Well informed expectations of pregnancy, birth and early parenting go a long way to helping couples adjust to the transition of becoming parents.

Great Expectations has just the right tone, straight forward, realistic, supportive and reassuring, covering just about everything to prepare partners both practically and emotionally.

I particularly like the "how you may be feeling" sections, as they provide a talking point for couples to share their inside worlds with each other, which creates a strong bond between them going forward - and this is the perfect foundation for a new family.