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What to Expect: Eating Well When You're Expecting |  | Author: Heidi Murkoff
Creator: Sharon Mazel
Brand: Workman Publishing
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1248
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Edition: 1
Pages: 470
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 0761133267
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.242
UPC: 019628133267
EAN: 9780761133261
ASIN: 0761133267
Publication Date: May 2, 2005
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Product Description
Announcing Eating Well When You're Expecting; providing moms to- be with a realistic approach to navigating healthily and deliciously through the nine months of pregnancy"at home; in the office; over the holidays; in restaurants. Thorough chapters are devoted to nutrition; weight gain; food safety; the postpartum diet; and how to eat when trying to conceive again. And; very exciting; the book comes with 150 contemporary; tasty; and healthy recipes that feed mom and baby well; take little time to prepare; and are gentle on queasy tummies.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 37
 Borrow it first July 21, 2010
S. Merritt
With my first pregnancy I was sick on the couch from the 2nd month through the 7th and then part of the 9th. I could eat and actually had cravings starting the 4th month or so and, feeling like I was starving, I ate everything in sight. Needless to say I gained too much weight. for my height and activity level [normally] an ideal weight is 110-120; I weighed in [pre-pregnancy: 130 and day I delivered: 171 lbs]; My belly looked like i had been attacked by a wild animal and literally started ripping. So the second time around I really wanted to have this book to help me stay on track with weight gain etc. since now i'm overweight for my height etc. It worked the first month because morning sickness hadn't set in yet. the 2nd-4th months though I had to have Zofran just so that I could keep water and crackers down and even then I had to avoid my omega 3s and all fish products like the plague.
Reading through the plan I didn't understand it. I'm used to my plan on mypyramid.gov which was much clearer and strict [which for me is important otherwise I still over eat]. If you can understand the gibberish that is the daily plan in this book then i hope it works for you. I had to read and reread over 5 times before it started to somewhat make sense. I'm going to give it another try because there are some things that take me forever to learn and others i pick up right away so maybe it's just me. Honestly this series isn't my favorite to begin with; but I stick with it because the website is useful and it honestly answered more questions than my Dr. who always seems to have somewhere better to be [yep going to switch next time]. The other good thing about it though [and why I gave it 3 stars] is that it goes through how much weight to gain for a healthy pregnancy whether you're a "twig" to start out with or not and WHY [another topic my Dr. avoids].I recommend borrowing this from your local library or a friend before buying it just to see if you can decifer it.
Good Information, But Recipes Are Complicated June 10, 2010
Danielle Housenick (Rockville, MD)
This is a great resource for the first time pregnant woman. There is a wealth of nutrition information and answers to many questions. In some areas, I felt the book could be a little alarmist. Overall, your OB doctor is still the best source of information.
Also, I felt some of the recipes had long (and depending on where you live, possibly hard to find) lists of ingredients. As a pregnant woman, I am not sure I would have the time to prepare these dishes. I did like the smoothie recipes and the muffin recipes, those seemed a little easier.
Overall, for the price not a bad resource.
Good basic health tips, but not for vegetarians or pescetarians March 22, 2010
L. Clark (Roxbury, CT)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently learned I was pregnant, and wanted to make sure I was eating right for the baby so bought a few books to do some research. I'm not sure this one will get much use - I may donate it to a local library, in case someone else finds it helpful.
In my opinion, the original "What to Expect When You're Expecting" is preferable to this book, as this doesn't give a lot of new info if you know have a basic knowledge of how to eat healthy anyway. The one big exception is the recipes that are included here, and the detailed breakdown of what different food options are available to meet each specific nutritional recommendation/requirement for pregnancy. Otherwise it's mainly just basic nutritional advice.
The second issue I had with the book is that there is very little information available for vegetarians, or even for those who only eat fish/shellfish. It would have been nice if there had been more vegetarian dishes, or even vegetarian options listed for the meat recipes.
 The what to expect series is great. March 3, 2010
Elizabeth Wall-Bräunert (Germany)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this as a gift, but I have other books from this series and they are great. My niece who recieved this book as a gift says it has been very helpful.
Take it with a grain of salt! February 13, 2010
BookFanGal
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is NOT written by doctors, and my OBGYN (considered one of the best in my county) strongly disagrees with a lot of stuff in the book. I also have found research that counters some of what they say.
My OBGYN was absolutely enraged at the book's allegation that pregnant women who have food allergy family histories should not eat peanuts or peanut butter. There is no medical validity to that claim--the peanut butter is not going to harm your baby, and there is no medical evidence to suggest that it will give the baby allergies.
Also, the book talks a lot about how you should eat flaxseed liberally, when in fact there are studies that show too much flaxseed can interrupt the growth of the fetus. While the book does say you should consume DHA, it barely mentions EPA (equally important). Also, it does the SERIOUS disservice of not explaining that the true and purest form of DHA/EPA is in algae--NOT fish. Seafood itself has no DHA/EPA--the fish get it from the algae they eat. There are companies like V-Pure (whose supplements I purchase) that grow their own organic algae outside of the ocean (so free from ocean contamination).
So pregnant women like me who wish to avoid seafood because of mercury DO have an option. However, the book just makes it sound like seafood is the only way to get DHA/EPA. Not true.
In the section discussing Selenium, the book states that Brazil Nuts are a "whopping" supplier--they do not tell you that one brazil nut contains 200 mg of selenium (the book correctly states you need 60 mg per day when you're pregnant) and that eating too many brazil nuts can lead to selenium toxicity--well, the average woman would not think that eating 3-4 brazil nuts a day could be harmful--but it could be.
The book also recommends DHA fortified bars and snacks which contain Life's DHA, a product by a company called Martek. However, it does not mention that the Cornucopia Foundation released a study showing that Martek extracts Life's DHA using a NEUROTOXIN called Hexane, and that severe illness and diarrhea has been diagnosed in some babies who consume formula and products with Life's DHA. I say "no thanks" to consuming that while I'm pregnant.
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