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Title: A condescending look at pregnancy
Review: I'm not pregnant (yet), but I've been researching and reading for several months. This and =The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy= were the worst books I read. I found the tone condescending, smarmy, and just plain insulting. I also could not eat half the food they insist you eat if I were carrying the McCaughey Septuplets - and whoever dubbed the diet the "Best Chance" diet ignores the fact that millions of women eat a lot less, in different proportions, and have perfectly healthy babies. WHO decided that this was the "Best Chance"? And if it's so great, how oh how has the human race managed to get this far without its superior wisdom?The best books if you don't want to be addressed as an idiot are still Our Bodies, Our Selves and Sheila Kitzinger's Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth. At least the Boston Women's Health Book Collective and Sheila Kitzinger assume that their readers haven't tossed their brains out the window.
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