Pregnancy Day By Day

August 25, 2009
This 280-day countdown offers a wealth of information about what's happening inside your body from the first day of your period to conception, birth, and beyond. Each page describes your baby on that day with a photograph and includes other information that may be of interest at that point in pregnancy. Topics on each page are varied; health concerns may be juxtaposed with maternity dresses. Some trivial information is inaccurate (onesies are described as having feet, for example), but these details are easily overlooked. Nonmainstream choices, like cloth diapering and hypnobirthing, are mentioned without judgment, though cosleeping is warned against. The "Labor and Birth" section includes information and a (somewhat dry) birth story for both natural and medicated pain relief. Verdict This well-designed book will grab the attention of parents-to-be but may spur them to look elsewhere for more details.-Mindy Rhiger, St. Paul, MN

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