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Title: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Healthy Twin Pregnancy
ISBN: 0440508789
Author:
Gila Leiter
Rachel Kranz
Publicate Date: 2000-11-07
Publish: 2000-11-07
List Price: $18.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: AKA: Everything you need to worry and freak out about during your twin pregnancy
I bought several books on twins. This one was not worth the extra money, as I could have EASILY gotten the exact same information from two other books that covered ALL the topics included in this book, but which were written in a more accessible and positive way. The first was: When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads, Revised Edition by Barbara Luke When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads, Revised Edition: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy and Twinspiration: Real-Life Advice From Pregnancy Through the First Year by Cheryl Lage. Twinspiration: Real-Life Advice From Pregnancy Through the First Year (for Parents of Twins and Multiples). I would also recommend "What to expect when you're expecting" What to Expect When You're Expecting: 4th Edition. That book has a great readability and pretty comprehensive information overall about pregnancy in general.
I would say between these four books, the book by Dr. Leiter (everything you need to know to have a healthy...) is beyond redundant information. The thing I disliked most about Dr. Leiter's book was that it was so sterile and medically based that it came off very negative. All the books had the same information about possible complications and so on, but her presentation made it seem like pregnancy was going to be all gloom and doom with nothing but hurdles to jump and that hoping to have a normal healthy pregnancy was really unrealistic.
It also lacked practical advice and real world advice. Every time a little case story was offered about a woman's pregnancy it was negative and showcased how worried the mother was or how something she did lead to complications. This is important information, but it isn't offered in a way that allows for the reader to feel like the problem is actually rare or avoidable. I feel that I spent a bit of time reading this book and felt more worried about my pregnancy afterwards than before, even though I don't have any complications and my babies are doing really well. I guess my point is, I can worry plenty on my own, and I'd rather stick to books that offer the same information about problems in risks in a way that is more neutral.
You can get every bit of information in this book in the other books. If you are looking for a medically based book for information, "When you're expecting twins..." By Dr. Luke above is a friendlier read and has the SAME information offered with alternatives, not just doom. It also offers lots more information specific to Multiple pregnancies, lots of nutrition advice, and was written with both positive stories from patients as well as potholes some women in her practice faced. But after the negative, Dr. Luke would go into how realistic that problem might be for the reader and how it might be avoided. It was far more balanced and positive to read.
I also thought that "Twinspirations" written by a mom, was a fun book to read and had LOTS of practical advice as well as family situations, things her husband thought about, things I would have never thought of myself, and I actually laughed several times with the author at things she wrote about. This was a very positive and helpful book. This was the book I asked my husband to read, because it was most readable and practical and fun. It also brought up a lot of family issues, like finances, handling the household work, child care, and practical life/household situations that a medical style informational book doesn't usually even touch upon.
Really, there's nothing really that bad about "Everything you need to know..." but there are just other books that do the same thing FAR better. I know I planned on buying several books and I could have left this one out.
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2: Exactly what I needed!
This book was very beneficial to me. This was my first pregnancy and I bought several books but none of them focused on twins or even had a chapter dedicated to twins.
Most, if not all, of my questions were answered reading this book. I also took advantage of the resources provided.
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3: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Fearful Twin Pregnancy!
The title of this book is very misleading. Instead of telling readers how to have a healthy pregnancy, the author lists major complications one after another. There were way too many statistics and percentages and I felt like I was reading the same information over and over. This book was very scary to read and offered no reassurance that a multiple pregnancy would end happily. I would definitely not recommend this book to any pregnant women.
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4: Great but lacking one thing
This book was great -- I read it time and again -- but it lacked more in-depth information about what to expect for each trimester. The information about your pregnancy during given periods of time was very, very brief.
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5: Very Helpful and Informative Book!
Dr. Leiter offers great professional and personal insights into twin pregnancy. Her medical information is just enough and easy to comprehend for the curious layperson. Though you'll learn what can go wrong, she keeps the focus on the positive and offers encouraging examples from patients and her own experience. This book is great to read with Twinspiration, which focuses more on what happens after you bring them home from the hospital.
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