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What to Expect When You’re Expecting
- By: Heidi Murkoff
- Narrated by: Heidi Murkoff, Meeghan Holaway, Emma Bing, and others
- Length: 32 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 482
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 394
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Story4 out of 5 stars 386
This cover-to-cover (including the cover!) new edition is filled with must-have information, advice, insight, and tips for a new generation of moms and dads. With What to Expect’s trademark warmth, empathy, and humor, it answers every conceivable question expecting parents could have, including dozens of new ones based on the ever-changing pregnancy and birthing practices and choices they face. Advice for dads is fully integrated throughout the book.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The author writes as though we are children
- By V Diploe on 11-15-20
The author writes as though we are children
Reviewed: 11-15-20
The writing and reading style is overly cutesy makes me cringe. I can't listen to it any more. The author writes and reads as though the readers/listeners are children. For example, the experience of morning sickness is constantly referred to as "a case of the queezies" and "tummy troubles". I'm a grown woman and just because I'm pregnant does not mean that I've lost my ability to understand nausea and anatomical terms like stomach.
Additionally, as a listening experience, the Q&A sections are hard to navigate. Much of it is not be relevant to each person. It requires constant fast forwarding and you never know what questions are next. The excerpts for male partners are sparse and patronizing (which is hilarious). It is written with the unsympathetic, uninvolved, and clueless stereotype of a male in mind. These also assume there is a male partner or Daddy. Some folks are going at it alone and some folks are not partnered with males.
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