Your Pregnancy Quick Guide: Feeding Your Baby -- Review

Your Pregnancy Quick Guide: Feeding Your Baby In The First Year by Glade B. Curtis

From the authors of the best-selling Your Pregnancy series, medically sound and succinct guides for the pregnant woman who needs detailed information on a specific concern:
The advantages and disadvantages of breastfeeding and bottle-feeding
Guidelines for establishing a breastfeeding routine
What you need to know about how your nutrition affects your breast milk
Tips for safe and healthy bottle-feeding
Information on different formula options and how to find the right one for your baby
Tips for introducing solid foods and monitoring for food allergies
Advice on the best feeding and burping positions
How to recognize whether your baby is getting enough nourishment

Another great resource from Glade B. Curtis. The same information in the Your Baby's First Year: Week By Week (Your Pregnancy Series), Second Edition but in a fabulous compact version. I did feel that the authors lean toward formula feeding over breastfeeding in the subtleties that they expressed, but the information for either beginning feeding of an infant is there. I enjoy the resources provided in the books from the Your Pregnancy series and I highly recommend them.

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Review: Your Pregnancy Quick Guide: Labor and Delivery

Your Pregnancy Quick Guide: Labor and Delivery, What You Need to Know about Childbirth by Glade B. Curtis

From the authors of the best-selling Your Pregnancy series, medically sound and succinct guides for the pregnant woman who needs detailed information on a specific concern:

Tips for preparing mentally and physically for the big day

How to recognize the onset of labor

When to go to the hospital after labor begins

Guidance on choosing between natural childbirth and one with medical intervention

What you need to know about Cesarean delivery

Information on the different pain relief options

Advice for your partner or labor coach

An overview of the tests you'll go through during and after delivery

My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I wish I had read this before my labor and delivery, but even reading it in the days afterward was very useful. It was reassuring to read about normalcy and have answers to questions about things that occurred and would occur in the days soon to come. This book answers many of the questions that a new mom has and may not think to ask her doctor. Questions can be answered or prompted from this little quick guide. It is short enough to read in snippets and enjoy the information gained. I recommend it and look forward to other Quick Guides from the "Your Pregnancy" series.

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Review: Your Pregnancy Quick Guide: Postpartum Wellness

Your Pregnancy Quick Guide: Pospartum Wellness, What you need to know about recovering from childbirth, enjoying your newborn and becoming a family by Glade B. Curtis

By the best-selling authors of the Your Pregnancy series, medically sound and succinct information for the pregnant woman who needs detailed information on a specific concern

What you need to know about recovering from childbirth and enjoying your newborn

Tips for recovering from childbirth and regaining strength and vitality

How to tell if your baby is getting enough breast milk or formula

Nutritional information and recommended exercises to help you get back in shape

Creative ways to set aside time for you and your spouse to be alone together

Questions to ask at baby's first visit to the pediatrician and your first post-delivery check-up

Coping advice for adjusting to the changing dynamics in the household

Information on selecting childcare, if you're returning to work

My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I received this book at the perfect time, it arrived the day before I delivered my first child, a daughter. The wisdom in this book is exactly what I needed to read and hear. The quick guide is not overwhelming with information, but provides enough to give advice and reassure the new mother (or other person affected by a recent family addition) in a time of drastic change. Reading this book over a week, just snippets here and there when a break from new baby care occurred was just what I needed. I cannot wait to read more of the Quick Guides from the "Your Pregnancy" series and I highly recommend them to others.

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Your Pregnancy for the Father-to-Be (a review)

Your Pregnancy for the Father-to-Be: Everything Dads Need to Know about Pregnancy, Childbirth and Getting Ready for a New Baby by Glade B. Curtis


My rating: 5 of 5 stars

From my husband:

• Organization makes sense. Good chronologically, do not have to read all at once.
• Easy to read, not too much medical jargon. Explanations were in a understandable format.
• Wording in general was easy to read, not like a text book.
• Inserts of real life examples and humorous events keep the book interesting. Not just about the pregnant woman, but also things to think about when baby comes home.
• Useful information, that as a male, he did not know about. Good explanations about the female body to the male reader in what to expect. And generally how to know that your wife is not just crazy.
• Instructions and pointers it gives for possible situations were clearly laid out and easy to follow if needed; such as emergency delivery at home and transportation to get to the hospital and so on.
• Overall it was worded in such a way that it did not drag on and on. It was a decent book to just sit down and read bits in an evening or so and gave good information.
• This comes from a guy who would rather be out in the garage working or playing video games instead of reading. And when he does read it would be a sci/fi or adventure book.

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Expectant fathers often take a backseat when it comes to those crucial months before childbirth, but Your Pregnancy for the Father-to-Be has helped thousands of dads learn to take an active role in the months, weeks, days, and hours leading to birth. This one-stop guide has shown dads-to-be how to focus then nervous energy into productive efforts, like better supporting their partner and preparing the home for baby.

In this updated and expanded second edition, Dr. Glade B. Curtis and Judith Schuler take us one step further, addressing the questions and concerns of today's dads--everything from consuming artificial sweetners and caffeine during pregnancy, to handling multiples, to dealing with depression during and after pregnancy. This revised edition also features medical information that's on every parent's mind, and even includes the most current ACOG guidelines for Down syndrome testing. And it has a whole new chapter on preparing for the next pregnancy.

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books; 2nd edition (January 5, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 073821275X
• ISBN-13: 978-0738212753
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches

Also, feel free to go back and read my review on Your Pregnancy Week By Week.

Your Pregnancy Week by Week (a review)

Announcing a fully revised and updated new edition of the only best-selling pregnancy and childbirth guide written by a doctor...

Your Pregnancy Week by Week by Glade B. Curtis, OB/GYN
and Judith Schuler, M. S.

Sixth Edition

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

In the category of pregnancy reads, I would say this is one of my favorites and most useful books. In the category of weekly updates of what is most likely happening in your pregnancy, this is by far the best book of it's kind. I had so many recommendations to read a different book that has been around, but I am so glad that I found this one, in comparison the "other" book has nothing on this one. When curious about this book in it's republication, I found several negative reviews that talked about how it could cause a person to become neurotic knowing all the possible things that can go wrong. Really, what I can tell you from reading this cover to cover, is that it definitely has information on a bit of everything, most plausible diseases and complications. When I was reading this, if I came to a section on smoking mothers, it obviously did not apply to me, so I skipped over it. Same with other categories such as ethnic specific diseases and so on.

I find that this book is a wealth of information. Reading through can tell you plausible things to go wrong, but it also tells you all the miracles that are occurring step by step along the way. There are drawings that show about what the development looks like for your babies stage. There are fabulous exercise suggestions for each week and I would easily say that this is medically current and a comprehensive guide. With my background in nursing I would suggest this book highly.


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With millions of copies sold, Your Pregnancy Week by Week is a book that mothers have depended on for over a dozen years. Now, it has been carefully brought up-to-date and expanded to reflect the latest changes in obstetric practice and technologies, and the most recent research on gestation, labor, and delivery. This sixth edition includes more than eighty new topics, such as newly proposed folic acid intake recommendations (and why green tea should be avoided), the new ACOG guidelines for episiotomies, and a new at-home screening test for Down syndrome. It also contains new material on everything from multiples, to alternative and complementary medical techniques, to anxiety during pregnancy due to misinformation on the Internet. Always reliable and now re-designed to include an exercise page for every week, Your Pregnancy Week by Week, Sixth Edition is the most medically current and comprehensive guide on the market.

Because changes to a pregnant woman and developing fetus occurs constantly, doctors refer to a pregnancy in increments of weeks, not months or even trimesters. Expectant mothers look for thse changes and compare the details of their pregnancies based on the same weekly shcedule. Hence this book is organized in a week-by-week format. Each of the forty weekly chapters features a wealth of medical facts, as well as invaluable coping and planning advice in the form of a tip of the week. There are even "Dad Tips" for the mother's partner. Other special features include a fifteen-page glossary of pregnancy and childbirth terms, a chapter devoted to overdue (post-term) pregnancies, and a six-page reserouce section that outlines what happens to a woman's body in the days, weeks, and months following her pregnancy.

More people turn to Dr. Glade Curtis for information about pregnancy and childbirth than to any other doctor in the world. Board-certified by the America College of Obstericians and Gynecologists, he has delivered thousands of babies-- including three of his own. He has written eighteen books with Judith Sculer, who holds a master's degree in consumer and family studies, including Your Baby's First Year Week by Week, Your Pregnancy after 35, andYour Pregnancy for the Father-to-Be. Combined, their books have been translated into over twenty languages. Dr. Curtis lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Judith Schuler divides her time between Tucson, Arizon and Laramie, Wyoming. For more information about the authors and the Your Pregnancy series, please visit www.yourpregnancybook.com.

• Paperback: 648 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press; 6 Rev Upd edition (March 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738211095
• ISBN-13: 978-0738211091
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.5 inches

Also in another post, look for my husband's thoughts on Your Pregnancy for the Father-to-Be.