The good, the bad, and the just plain gross things about pregnancy that other books aren?t going to tell you
by Emily Doherty
appears in Pregnancy.
Today's pregnancy books may no longer recommend martinis and cigarettes to help pregnant women relax, but most offer moms to be a ton of worthless information like what kind of fruit your baby is the size of at Week 16. Is there any practical value in knowing that your child resembles produce And where's the good stuff, the useful details, like be...
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Consider Belly Laughs, 10th anniversary edition by Jenny McCarthy.
“Jenny McCarthy’s Belly Laughs reads like an unapologetic stand-up set about pregnancy’s humiliations — gas, nausea, forgetfulness and mood swings turned into punchlines. What works best is comic relief: familiar, gross-out moments are named and normalized so readers can laugh at things usually left unspoken. The main limitation is repetition and a focus on shock humor over depth, so readers seeking medical tips, sober solidarity, or quieter prose will find it thin and occasionally grating.”
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