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What to Expect Before You’re Expecting
- The Complete Guide to Getting Pregnant
- Narrated by: Heidi Murkoff, Meeghan Holaway, Emma Bing, James Patrick Cronin, Khristine Hvam, Vanessa Johansson, Inés del Castillo, Almarie Guerra, Tanis Parenteau, Mat Vairo, Jasmin Walker, Sofia Willingham
- Series: What to Expect
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Physical Illness & Disease
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting
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- Narrated by: Heidi Murkoff, Meeghan Holaway, Emma Bing, and others
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This cover-to-cover (including the cover!) new edition is filled with must-have information, advice, insight, and tips for a new generation of moms and dads. With What to Expect’s trademark warmth, empathy, and humor, it answers every conceivable question expecting parents could have, including dozens of new ones based on the ever-changing pregnancy and birthing practices and choices they face. Advice for dads is fully integrated throughout the book.
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting
- Written by: Heidi Murkoff
- Narrated by: Heidi Murkoff, Meeghan Holaway, Emma Bing, and others
- Length: 32 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
This cover-to-cover (including the cover!) new edition is filled with must-have information, advice, insight, and tips for a new generation of moms and dads. With What to Expect’s trademark warmth, empathy, and humor, it answers every conceivable question expecting parents could have, including dozens of new ones based on the ever-changing pregnancy and birthing practices and choices they face. Advice for dads is fully integrated throughout the book.
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repetition and annoying voice
- By Kanina on 2020-03-18
Written by: Heidi Murkoff
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The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant
- Written by: Jean M. Twenge PhD, Sarah Appleton MD
- Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Trying to get pregnant is enough to make any woman impatient. The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant is a complete guide to the medical, psychological, social, and sexual aspects of getting pregnant, told in a funny, compassionate way, like talking to a good friend who's been through it all. And in fact Dr. Jean Twenge has been through it all - the mother of three young children, she started researching fertility when trying to conceive for the first time.
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Couldn't put it down!
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-06-01
Written by: Jean M. Twenge PhD, and others
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What to Expect the First Year
- Written by: Heidi Murkoff
- Narrated by: Heidi Murkoff, Meeghan Holaway, Emma Bing, and others
- Length: 36 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Keeping the trademark month-by-month format that allows parents to take the potentially overwhelming first year one step at a time, First Year is easier to listen to and new-family friendlier than ever - packed with even more practical tips, realistic advice, and relatable, accessible information than before. Illustrations are new, too.
Written by: Heidi Murkoff
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Making Babies
- A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility
- Written by: Sami S. David, Jill Blakeway
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Making Babies offers a proven three-month program designed to help any woman get pregnant. Fertility medicine today is all about aggressive surgical, chemical, and technological intervention, but Drs. David and Blakeway know a better way.
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Supplemental PDF does not match the book
- By Alison on 2020-06-10
Written by: Sami S. David, and others
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Bumpin'
- The Modern Guide to Pregnancy: Navigating the Wild, Weird, and Wonderful Journey from Conception Through Birth and Beyond
- Written by: Leslie Schrock
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski, Leslie Schrock
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In the last 30 years, the process of starting a family has drastically changed. There many more options for getting pregnant and dizzying array of variables from start to finish. Genetic test or no genetic test? Midwife or OB-GYN? All this choice can create anxiety, especially around the most difficult realities. Miscarriages and fertility issues are common, yet often concealed. One in nine mothers report dealing with postpartum depression, but it is rarely acknowledged and even more rarely treated. Enter Leslie Schrock, first-time mother whose own struggles opened her eyes.
Written by: Leslie Schrock
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Real Food for Pregnancy
- Written by: Lily Nichols
- Narrated by: Lily Nichols
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Prenatal nutrition can be confusing. In Real Food for Pregnancy, you will get clear answers on what to eat and why, with research to back up every recommendation. Author and specialist in prenatal nutrition Lily Nichols, RDN, CDE has taken a long and hard look at the science and discovered a wide gap between current prenatal nutrition recommendations and what foods are required for optimal health in pregnancy and for your baby's development. There has never been a more comprehensive and well-referenced resource on prenatal nutrition.
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AMAZING
- By Syd on 2021-08-12
Written by: Lily Nichols
Publisher's Summary
Expecting to expect? Plan ahead with What to Expect Before You’re Expecting, America’s best-selling guide to getting pregnant, now available for the first time ever in audio, and narrated by author Heidi Murkoff. It’s your first step in What to Expect—an all-in-one plan for getting pregnant, from getting your bodies ready for conception, to getting that healthy baby on board faster.
With her trademark empathy, warmth, honesty, and humor, Heidi offers practical advice, savvy strategies, and reassuring, relatable answers to every conceivable question you might have about how to fast-track conception—and support through any bumps you might encounter along the way to that baby bump of your dreams. You'll hear how to figure out your fertility (and his); about baby-friendly foods to order up (say yes to yams); fertility busters to avoid (see you later, saturated fat); how to pinpoint ovulation, time baby-making sex, keep on-demand sex sexy, and separate conception fact (it takes the average couple up to 12 months to make a baby) from myth (position matters). Plus how lifestyle (from how much you work out to how much coffee you drink to whether you or your partner smoke or use marijuana), weight, age, and other factors can impact fertility for hopeful moms and dads.
This go-to-guide to getting pregnant presents the most up-to-date information on health insurance coverage, genetic screening, preconception travel, sex selection techniques, and family-building options for single women and same-sex couples. And, for the one in eight couples who experience infertility, What to Expect Before You’re Expecting offers the latest on both low-tech and cutting-edge fertility treatments, from medications to IVF and surrogacy. It’s everything you and your partner need to know for that baby-making adventure ahead.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, an accompanying PDF of charts and diagrams will be available in your Audible Desktop Library along with the audio.
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''What to Expect is the instructions that babies and bumps don't come with, but probably should. What to Expect is the answer to all your questions, the reassurance for all your worries, and that knowledge that empowers you.''What listeners say about What to Expect Before You’re Expecting
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- Seshanna Street
- 2019-09-25
Better as a physical book, most is common sense
There's nothing like the excitement of planning a baby with your partner to get your need for information and to-do's in gear (at least, if you're a Type A personality). Knowing the great reputation for this book's sequel, What to Expect When You're Expecting, I figured this would be the endless fountain of the information every uterus-owning person planning on a baby would want and need to know. What I got was a textbook, read by someone whose tone is less gal-pal and more slightly condescending nurse with bad attempts at humor and slightly sexist jokes. It's all a bit eyeroll-inducing. The first few chapters are all things anyone could guess at without even trying, followed by information that comes up after a quick Google search. "Planning a baby? Eat healthy, get your weight where the doctors tell you it should be, and stop drinking, smoking, or taking recreational drugs." That's literally the summary of the first third of the book, without the condescending tone.
The audiobook might have been better if you knew easily what sections you could skip, or if the narrator's tone weren't the same up-down pitch that sounds like the lady at the office who is fake-nice. It doesn't sound natural or conversational at all, but rather like someone who is the audio version of a motivational poster. I downloaded this on the first of the month and still haven't finished listening to it - it's that much of a chore.
The rest of the book does have some good information, but honestly would be more useful as a tangible book that you can take a highlighter to and just notate the stuff that's relevant to you personally. It's also still information that you can just as easily Google or ask your GP/Nurse Prac. Also, if you have anxiety, this might not be a good book since every symptom of conception and pregnancy is summarized as "It could be pregnancy, PMS, or -insert horrible medical thing here.-" Almost everything just says to ask your doctor. Um, thanks?
Find the book used cheap at Half Price Books and just mark up what you need with a highlighter, and save your monthly credit for something more entertaining.
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- Victoria Page
- 2021-11-14
OK But Needs Updated Information
I had zero issues with this book's information in any other section except the weight section. I felt it was inaccurate to boil down "health" to BMI especially for women. More modernly doctors (including my own) are including weight to hip ratios and other measurements to ensure a full picture is being taken. They spend a ton of time discussing this and I found it off-putting.
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- Mary
- 2021-09-17
Great Info, Terrible Narrator (sorry!)
I found the info in this book to actually be really helpful and informative, however the narrator's voice is hard to listen to. Her tone doesn't adjust for the subject matter so she will be talking about antidepressants or miscarriage in the most chipper happy voice with a slight giggle in her inflection. I actually burst out laughing when she said "Antidepressants" with the same tone of voice one might use when saying "Congratulations!" Or "Happy Birthday!" it was such an inappropriate tone of voice to use lol. Overall I stuck with it and genuinely appreciated the content, but be ready for a very cringey narrative voice.
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- Liz Call
- 2021-01-23
Great Info. TERRIBLE Delivery.
I thought the info in this book was really, really good overall, but oh man. Heidi Murkoff was a BAD choice as the reader. It was difficult to get past her poor performance and focus solely on the information. I would recommend the book, but be ready for a cringe-fest.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2019-06-06
Must listen before TTC
It's really well written and easy to follow even if you don't know what TTC is.
I enjoyed how they made it easy to follow the abbreviated words and that it covers everything including infertility and how to cope with miscarriage.
I will also be reading /listening to the rest of this series.
Thank you
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- Kendra Dae Pardey
- 2022-06-23
Old fashioned delivery of generally good information
Truthfully I did not like this book - I listened to the whole thing to pick out the useful information but the incredibly gendered jokes in an attempt to be light and relatable was exhausting. There were endless references to ‘the boys’ instead of sperm, and weird reenforcing of the idea that we should be somehow uncomfortable talking about our bodies (i.e. I bet you never wanted to think or talk about your cervical mucus this much!)… like what. I wished so badly this book just delivered the pertinent information without assuming and thus perpetuating old fashioned ideas at best about our approach to our bodies, sex, conception, pregnancy, and relationships - heterosexual or otherwise.
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- Emily J
- 2022-03-01
Ugh
I can’t stand the way this book is written. The puns, alliterations, and jokes are nauseating. It was so painful to listen to.
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- Samantha Kelly
- 2020-03-09
More useful to have a physical book.
This is definitely more useful as a physical book. With the audiobook you have to download the PDFs and then reference them when you get to the correct section. Also there's a lot of information for men as well.... So it was easier for us to just purchase the actual book so I could tag the pages for my husband to read.