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accuratly priced at $3

Revisado: 10-12-20

The best quality of this listen is it's brevity. Convenient to have a slimmed down chronological overview of pregnancy. That said it falls into the same trap as many books on this topic where the risks of gaining weight in pregnancy is overplayed and the risks of not gaining enough weight (which is inarguably more dangerous to baby) is never mentioned.

I wish the author would use the singular "they" pronoun rather than "he/she" and not constantly conflated sex and gender.

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This one makes the shelf. Top pregnancy book.

Revisado: 09-17-20

An excellent combination of factual information and personal experience. Like a Mother brings context and philosophy to a 'what to expect' guide for pregnancy. This helps expecting mothers look critical at how mothers are treated and the social expectations put on them as compared to the data available as well as the wisdom we can glean from ancient people and various cultural practices around the world.

If we are ever going to change the more problematic aspects of women's health we first must be informed about our bodies and the process of pregnancy. This book helps to illuminate our experiences to help women understand their rights and the many ways they are commonly exploited and ignored.

<3 we can change the world <3

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The first book you should read when preggers.

Revisado: 09-15-20

I've read lots of pregnancy/parenting books since becoming pregnant and I wish I had started with this one.

Lily Nichols details a comprehensive outline of the dietary needs to building a human (as well as general health) that helps individuals make their own plan to fit their lifestyle. This book has given me such a deep appreciation for chemistry and nutrition science as well as informed my food habits moving forward.

thank you!

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Not a parenting guide but a description of norms.

Revisado: 08-15-20

A useful break down of gender stereotypes and their lasting affects on child development. I find it interesting the author doesn't make what is the obvious next step of recommending raising non-binary children. I suspect the reason for this is simply a bias/preference because she did not raise her daughters this way and likely at the time she began parenting the idea had much less traction.

This book seems to work within gender structures rather than suggest practical ways to avoid or deconstruct them. Spears Brown, rather than transcending the dichotomy, is explaining pink and blue to her children as she raises them.

Besides one brief paragraph, this book neglects the subject of gender disphoria. I wish the experiences of non-binary, intersex and transgender children were included. This could be due to a lack of studies available but it seems remiss of the author to not seek out and share the experiences of those who (unlike the author) are actually raising their children in a spectrum beyond pink and blue.

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