Your Pregnancy Week by Week, 6th Edition (Your Pregnancy Series)

Your Pregnancy Week by Week is the most medically current and comprehensive pregnancy guide available. Doctors recommend it. Reviewers praise it. Pregnant couples rely on it.

With over 70 new topics covered, and completely updated throughout to keep up with trends, new products, and safety recommendations, this comprehensive, authoritative, and easy-to-use guide includes:

-Detailed descriptions of baby's developmental milestones each week
-Clear illustrations of how both mother and baby are changing and growing
-Up-to-date information about medical tests and procedures
-Tips on nutrition and lifestyle and the ways actions affect baby
-Safe weekly exercises to help mother stay in shape and comfortable
-Helpful hints for the father-to-be and information on how a pregnancy affects a couple

I believe that knowledge alleviates fear, so being told what problems could happen in pregnancy is great. I would rather be informed with what could happen than know nothing. Other books I've seen have a "when something goes wrong" chapter or something else to that effect. I would rather read about possible problems a little at a time, since most women don't have real problems with pregnancy, than getting the full blow of it all at once and then feeling overwhelmed and REALLY worried.

As for other reviews I read about Dr. Curtis arbitrarily placing topics with different weeks, is it that hard to look in the index and find what you're looking for? Would any book on pregnancy be able to properly place every person's symptoms and problems exactly when they experience them?

I love this book, and always recommend it to friends I hear are pregnant!


The Best Pregnancy Book of the 5 we used.   July 23, 2006
Steven R. McEvoy (Canada)
55 out of 60 found this review helpful

The greatest strength of this book is the week-by-week format. It outlines specific changes that are pretty close to exactly as predicted. We noticed many of the things and then read them that week, ie. phlegmyness, inability to travel more than an hour and dryness at night just to name a few. This book is very well balanced and it tends to focuses more on the positives of pregnancy and not the possible complications. This is the 5th Edition of this book with millions of copies sold. Overall it is a great help. I definitely recommend it to all expectant couples. These authors also wrote a number of supporting or complimentary books:
Bouncing Back From Your Pregnancy
Your Pregnancy Journal Week by Week
Your Pregnancy for the Father to Be
Your Pregnancy After 35
Your Pregnancy Questions and Answers
Your Pregnancy Every Woman's Guide
Your Baby's First Year Week by Week


This Is A Must Have Book!   January 5, 2000
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

This is an excellent book for pregnant women to have either for a first time pregnancy or tenth pregnancy. It is loaded with reference information. Of course this is just a reference book and any problems or questions need to be directed to your own doctor. I read about everything I could find during my 1st pregnancy and this was my favorite book.I found this book a great reference book for my 1st pregnancy.I loved being able to see how our child was developing week by week, like how big she was, when she could blink her eyes, when she developed finger nails. I compared other books to this one and nothing compared. Although I did purchuse other top selling pregnancy books. This was my top choice. I am now about three weeks pregnant again with our 2nd child. I loaned this book to another family member and I can't wait to get it back!


This book is excellent, I recommend it to everyone.   September 13, 1999
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

I looked all over the shelves of the bookstore for a book that would give me lots of pictures, loads of information, and put it all into an easy-to-read format. The only book I found that looked at all usefull was this one. Throughout my whole pregnancy I've looked forward to reading that week's information, and often read ahead in the book.

To all those people who complained that it had "irrelevant" information in it, or just was out to "scare" pregnant women, I have one thing to say, not everyone has a "normal" pregnancy. I think it's absurd that people have gotten so upset by reading what happens to some people during pregnancy. Sure, you might not have cancer during your pregnancy, but someone out there does. Sure, maybe you don't have a VD or maybe you never smoked or maybe you don't have questions about which medications are ok to take during pregnancy because you never get sick, but surprise! other people out there do have these problems. If you don't want to read about them, then skip over the portions that talk about those problems, but don't complain about a book covering all the possible things that could go wrong, just because your pregnancy happened to go perfect. Personally, I never got morning sickness, and yet I'm guessing every pregnancy book out there has entire chapters devoted to morning sickness. If you want a book tailored to your personal pregnancy, then write one yourself. Otherwise, be thankful to have a book that does talk about all the problems, so in case you encounter one yourself, you'll have something to read, instead of just being faced with a bookshelf full of information for those "normal" pregnancies.

Personally, not only did I find this book fun to read, because I got to hear all about how big my baby was and see pictures of what she might look like, but I also was happy to read about all the complications, so that I could be a better informed person. I think Glade B. Curtis did an amazing job.