The Girlfriends Guide to Pregnancy

30. Dec, 2009 0 Comments

I’m a reader, especially when it comes to pregnancy and what to expect and then on to the years of motherhood when surprises are hurled at you around every corner it seems. But of all the books I read, one of the most informative was one that wasn’t written by an expert in anything except the trials of motherhood.

Vicki Iovine makes no bones about her working mommy time in a legal career as well as her comfortable lifestyle, although she doesn’t flaunt them. Regardless of her lifestyle, Vicki is absolutely refreshing as one of the most blatantly honest and upfront pregnancy and parenting writers out there. The Girlfriend’s Guide to Pregnancy and subsequent books take the reader through the entire pregnancy experience in a fun, light-hearted way that tends to fill in the gaps left behind by the more medical renditions of pregnancy.

The Girlfriend’s Guide
Easily one of the most informative books, I ever read, Vicki doesn’t use vague phrases to describe vague things that leave you more confused about what’s happening in your head or to you’re body – she’s upfront about every body change, every appetite change and every emotional neurosis she experienced. Not only does she include her own experiences, she uses her huge network of friends to broaden the experience to many other mothers who have had similar experiences.

While the Girlfriend’s Guide would never take the place of a medical book of what to expect during pregnancy, it serves as a paperback support network of things you want to know, even if they aren’t the things you want to hear. It’s real life, it’s raw, it’s hilarious and it’s extremely helpful when you’re looking ahead into a pregnancy with the idealized version of things in every other book around you.

Using the Girlfriend’s Guide
While you can look up various sections in the book, the guide is more of a chapter book you can read cover to cover to learn about all kinds of various things during your pregnancy. As you approach the end of the pregnancy, you can jump into her next book, the Girlfriend’s Guide to the First Year before moving on to the Girlfriend’s Guide to Toddlers and the Girlfriend’s Guide to Getting Your Groove Back. Iovine is also alleged to be working on the Girlfriend’s Guide to Teenagers, which will be warmly welcomed after her other terrific books.

Vicki’s books can be purchased for under $15 from many book retailers.

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