| You'll Lose the Baby Weight: (And Other Lies about Pregnancy and Childbirth) Contributor(s): Meehan, Dawn (Author) |
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ISBN: 1439183805 ISBN-13: 9781439183809 Publisher: Howard Books OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Living - Women's Interests - Health & Fitness | Pregnancy & Childbirth - Family & Relationships | Parenting - Motherhood |
| Dewey: 618.2 |
| LCCN: 2010008601 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.55" W x 8.44" (0.51 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: You'll Lose the Baby Weight is a humorous look at pregnancy and childbirth. The author shares the parts about pregnancy that your doctor doesn't tell you--like how many times you are asked to pee whether you want to or not, from figuring out if you're pregnant by peeing on a pee stick to every time you go in for your doctor visit. And then there is the time when you are not allowed to pee but are bursting to when you're five months pregnant and have to drink thirty-two ounces of water for your ultrasound--and it feels like you've drank fifty-five gallons. As she shares stories from her own six pregnancies and births and those of her friends, Dawn cues readers into the important things they need to know, like how they should order their epidural as soon as they see a pink line on the pregnancy test, the unexpected changes your body goes through, and the fact that they will never again sleep through the night uninterrupted. This book even offers advice for fathers-to-be, including a list of things not to do in the delivery room if they don't want a bedpan thrown at their heads. With such chapters as I'm Not a Doctor; I Just Play One on TV and Morning Sickness: It Isn't Just for Breakfast Anymore, each chapter opens with a list of tips--some serious and some not--including things not to be suckered into buying for your baby and the essentials that you really do need. This hilarious book takes readers through nine months of pregnancy and all the accompanying symptoms to labor and delivery and the weeks postpartum. It will have readers doubled over in laughter, as it walks them through pregnancy with sympathetic honesty. While acknowledging that pregnancy is not always easy, the end result of that sweet-smelling, soft baby somehow make it all worth while. |
Contributor Bio(s): Meehan, Dawn: - Dawn lives with her six children on the outskirts of Chicago where she practices her juggling skills daily. On any given evening, Dawn can be found taking one child to cheerleading practice, dropping another off at church, making dinner, going the grocery store, paying the bills, kissing a boo-boo, reading a bedtime story, making school lunches, cleaning up muddy footprints, folding some laundry, taking a child to the ER, and writing blog posts. After Dawn auctioned a pack of Pokemon cards on eBay, she attracted the attention of nearly a hundred thousand readers in one day. Her blog, BecauseISaidSo.com skyrocketed to become one of the most popular mommy blogs on the net. In 2008, her blog was voted the Best Parenting Blog by The Blogger's Choice Awards. It was also nominated for the Best Humor Blog, the Hottest Mommy Blogger, and the Best Blog of All Time. |