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Title: Avoid this book
Review: This book, while "thorough" is so fear inducing that any pregnant woman with a low-risk pregnancy shoud steer clear at all costs. The author, month-by-month, lists typical discomforts alongside extremely rare complications thus alarming the pregnant woman that this could likely be her fate. He does not inform her that the likelihood of having one of these problems is very rare. I would have rather have seen a listing somewhere else in the book of such possibilities and the symptoms to watch for. Rather than have this book at all, I recommend Gentle Birth Choices, Birthing From Within or anything by Sheila Kitzinger. All were written by women with the approach that birth is a normal, natural physiologic state for the pregnant woman. While they discuss complications, they are not assumed to be lurking at every corner so the woman must be hyper vigilant for such problems.
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