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Christy P (who blogs here) pointed me to a bit of good news today: What To Expect When You're Expecting has finally fallen off the NYT bestseller lists.
Perhaps the used market or hand-me-down market is finally in equilibrium with the demand?
Or people have finished leveling out their wobbly furniture?
Ha!
with my first, I bought WTE and read it diligently and fretted about what I was doing wrong. With my second, I referred back to it for reference points like shouldn’t I feel the baby kicking now? By the third, I realized that every time I cracked WTE I ended up feeling discouraged and depressed and got the thing out of my house. The thing is insidious. Here’s to WTE recovery group!
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Where do you start to comment on this? That so many women felt they needed this book to prepare them for childbirth because there is such a generational disconnect between mothers and daughters. The fact that the book is so worried about being P.C. and not being medically liable that it doesn’t really tell you what to expect when you deliver in a hospital with a doctor and you don’t want a c-section or an epidural and your “partner” spent the whole Lamaze class figuring out their next meal. That the only fun parts of the book (the fetal growth charts) are easily found on-line in the form of widgets and use actual pictures instead of drawings. That there are so many better books out there like that article mentions.
I must admit that I like the WTE the First Year and Toddler Years as a quick illness reference.
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I suffered permanent scars from the phrase (paraphrased), “If you DO fall off the wagon and eat something really indulgent, like a bagel, don’t beat yourself up . . . “
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