Changes After Pregnancy: I Had a Lot of Post-Pregnancy Expectations—Incontinence Wasn’t One of Them
glamour.comWhat to Expect When You’re Expecting. You may quickly acquire multiple copies, thrust at you by well-meaning relatives, coworkers, and the like.
Despite the fact that it was first published in 1984 and has a cover that flouts the vibrant, graphic minimalism of books in our decade (opting to stick with ‘’), this is the baby-growing bible, one soon-to-be new moms grab any time they feel a foreign twinge in their bellies at 3 a.m.
or work themselves into an anxious knot before an ob-gyn appointment. It’s also one of the things you’ll be most excited to never see again once you’re . (A shelf in my town’s buckles under the weight of cast-off copies.) I’ve tried to pinpoint why I and many friends have a love/hate relationship with this book and its equally ubiquitous counterparts.
I don’t take issue with the content. Quite the opposite–that detailed information got me through many stressful times during my three pregnancies. (In part because having a printed book to trust prevented death-spiral Googling.) I think part of the problem is the know-it-all titles.
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