Editorial Review
New life is growing inside you and your body is changing. It's an incredible experience for every mother-to-be. With this fact-filled book and your doctor's prenatal care you can follow your baby's progress and confirm what's happening in your own body.
Now in its completely revised third edition, this book provides the answers to your questions on all stages of pregnancy. Whether you are just beginning to plan your pregnancy or are already pregnant, there's advice for taking care of yourself and having a healthy baby.
Each week you will learn about:
Your baby's growth and development
How big your baby is
How your activities and actions affect your baby
Diet and exercise
Medicines and medical tests before and during pregnancy
Health precautions and illnesses to be aware of
Special concerns
Illustrations show clearly how you and your developing baby change and grow week by week.
A delightful new feature offers a tip-of-the-week to experienced mothers as well as women pregnant for the first time.
The most medically up-to-date book available for pregnant women. Your Pregnancy Week by Week is written by a leading obstetrician and fertility specialist. Here's helpful, clear advice for every mother-to-be.
Relax and enjoy your pregnancy!
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Customer Reviews
worry your way through pregnancy 
2008-06-09
I bought this book because it was written by a doctor and was recommended to me but I am very unhappy with this purchase. The vast majority of the content of the book is negative in nature. From STDs, to ectopic pregnancies and on to every birth defect imaginable, this book spends most of it's space on the problems you could face. The first couple of paragraphs of each chapter discuss the growing baby and then it launches in to new problems for each week and not even in a helpful, precautionary way. Stay away from this book! Not good for nervous, hormone-filled pregnant women!!!
Highly Informative 
2008-06-05
There are many critics of this book who claim that it is worries expectant mothers unnecessarily. However, I feel that it is necessary to understand the risks of pregnancy, as well as how to take care of the needs of an expectant mother. It is foolish to ignore the statistics, no matter how scary they can be because bad things do happen, and it is wise to be prepared.
I would definitely recommend this book to all expectant fathers and mothers.
Excelent Book on Pregnancy..... 2008-05-22
This is an excellent, informative book, well written and organized, which I have found helpful at answering a lot of my concerns and questions.
Buy the book!
Very informative! 2008-05-15
I read this book during my last pregnancy. I liked the format - weekly updates on mom and baby and it was just full of information, including sketches of the growing baby :) Highly recommend.
Good but unnerving 
2008-05-08
This book had a lot of information; however, topics such as miscarriage, different deformities or birth defects, and other pregnancy problems were in every chapter- I would have preferred them to all be in one section. As a first time mom, it was unnerving to constantly see what "could go wrong" every time I read another chapter. Also, there weren't really any pictures.
Terrible Book 
2008-07-16
Pretty much everything has been covered already. This book is horrible and does nothing to help encourage a woman to understand, educate herself, and feel any sense of empowerment in pregnancy or childbirth. It basically reduces the mother to a medical victim and pregnancy into nothing but constant, potential illness.
This is one of the few books I've ever tossed straight into the recycle bin. No passing this book on. It's that awful, really.
As someone said - too many complication discussed 2008-07-15
This book was a waste. First of all, they delay important information till the end of the book (weeks after 30 talk about nutrition). Then (and this is bad) they would say that your baby's eyes are developing this week and here are things that could go wrong.
How bad is that?!?!?!?
This book is useless! Buy Mayo clinic instead - there if you want to look up complications you can search them at the end of the book, plus it contains much more information - precise to point and usefull.
Negative, Alarmist - will only stress you out! 2008-07-09
All in all, this book is fine. But I cannot recommend it. It is very negative and reads almost like a medical textbook, listing all of the possible things can could go wrong at every stage - without little in the way of comfort. The bulk of each chapter is pretty negative and then at the end there is an attempt at a 'cheery' summary - which, by the time you get there, you really need. Unfortunately, I have put this book down too many times with a furrowed brow - I am not going to even finish reading it. There are plenty of better books out there with the same information - written by a doctor or not!
The best pregnancy book I've read! 2008-07-02
I have read "what to expect" and the "mayo clinic guide" cover to cover as well as this book and while they are all good and informative "Your Pregnancy Week by Week" is the best in my opinion. My only problem with it is that I think the title is misleading and some people just might read the book a week at a time during their pregnancy but the book will address important information (like avoiding green tea in early pregnancy) in the 25th month when that was something that should have been mentioned in the first week!
One of my favorite Pregnancy books 
2008-06-16
The good thing about this book, is that it breaks everything down week by week. So you get to learn about your child's development, size, how they look, what's going on with you and then on a week by week basis. No other book seemed to tell me 'It's x weeks, your baby's x is forming right now he/she is x oz and x long approximately, and looks like This'.
On the otherhand there's somewhat random information about various medical issues just scattered around the different weeks. Like Sickle Cell disease, and it mentions this under week 22 I think but it's not like that's something that occurs just then.
On the bright side if you don't have time to read a book cover to cover, this lets you take things a little at a time so it's less overwhelming. But the best part is following the development on a weekly basis instead of on a monthly basis, which is not nearly as exciting.
