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What to Expect When You’re Expecting

Written by: Heidi Murkoff
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
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It’s all here. Everything you need to know--and can’t wait to find out—about your amazing nine months, from conception to birth and beyond in the world’s best-selling and best-loved pregnancy guide: Heidi Murkoff’s What to Expect When You’re Expecting. And now, only from Audible, you’ll hear it in the reassuring, relatable voice expectant parents turn to for the must-have advice and information they crave and trust.

Heidi’s warm and empathetic narration will put moms- and dads-to-be at ease every step of the way through life’s most incredible journey. With the help of a diverse cast of voices—including her daughter Emma’s (also featured on the cover of What to Expect when she was expecting her first son, Lennox), Heidi answers your most pressing and personal questions and concerns, offering practical advice, realistic insight, easy-to-use tips, and lots of reassurance, along with the most up-to-date medical information. With the landscape of pregnancy and childbirth ever-changing, and with more choices facing expectant parents than ever before, you’ll hear the latest on pregnancy screenings, medications, and supplements during pregnancy, IVF, and multiple pregnancies, breastfeeding while you’re expecting, every birthing option (from VBAC and gentle c-sections to water birth and hypnobirthing)—plus, everything you need to know about your first three months postpartum, aka that vital fourth trimester, including how to spot the signs of postpartum depression and other mood disorders. Your pregnancy lifestyle (from work to working out, travel, beauty, skincare, and more) gets equal attention, as does your pregnant sex life. Get expert advice on juice bars, raw diets, coffee drinking, e-cigarettes and edibles, push presents, baby bump posting, omega-3 fatty acids, grass-fed and organic, health food fads,and GMOs. Expecting to become a dad? This book has you covered, too. It’s your pregnancy explained, demystified—and completely supported.

With more than 19 million copies in print, What to Expect When You’re Expecting is read by 93% of women who read a pregnancy book and was named one of the Most Influential Books of the Last 25 Years by USA Today.

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.''
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most of the information is repeated so many times that it becomes annoying and the voice is just too much, I cant hear more than 10 minutes at a time.

repetition and annoying voice

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when given info, at the end of the chapter, also conclude the important info. It is good for when I'm doing something while listening might miss here and there. The information I learnt was super useful, and also I think it is good to read even when you are planing to get pregnant. I listened to the book when I'm around 3 months, kinda feel like I was late, if I read this book earlier, I might not make certain mistakes. Anyway, highly recommend :)

Good for listening and a lot of useful info

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When the old lady told me we were pregnant, my butt cheeks clenched tight. This booked helped take that tension out. Definitely a great read for sure. Would recommend to anyone.

Would recommend

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Boring read, more like an encyclopedia. Would have been better bought as a hardcopy to read small sections of here and there. Narrator is a bit painful to listen to.

Lackluster

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The narrator was not easy to listen to. it was information vomit, it would be nice if it was directed towards the new expecting Mother. not every type of mother under the sun. it was hard to retain any information would not recommend!!!

yikes

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The book discussed everything under the sun, including topics which you wouldn't really care about if you had a normal pregnancy. It wouldn't be so bad if these were their own chapters, but they were interspersed with chapters relevant to all pregnancies. The fact that this was an audio book compounded the problem in that you couldn't really skim or know when to skip.

They need to make a shorter version that has info on what to expect for normal pregnancies and chapters for if things go sideways.
There are so many other books to read.
I realized after giving birth how much time I wasted reading this book. I could have used the time to read 2 books. One for pre and one post pregnancy.

Too much detail, needs to be streamlined

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