Book Review: The Real Deal Guide to Pregnancy by Erika Lenkert

About the Author:

Erika Lenkert presently writes for dozens of magazines and often appears on television, where she demonstrates creative, clever, and awfully tasty ways to make events fun and special.  She developed into a freelance journalist and entertaining expert more than a decade ago. Since then she has been traveling about the world and writing about food, wine, travel, and entertaining for magazines such as In Style, Food & Wine, and Everyday with Rachael Ray. Along the way she has co - authored the trendsetting cookbook Raw: The Uncook Book, and authored The Last-Minute Party Girl: Fashionable, Fearless, and Foolishly Simple Entertaining.

 

Pregnant women worry. It's natural. A major question is: What will birth be like and how much will it hurt?

Erika Lenkert answers these questions and many others in a uniquely straightforward and detailed manner. Her experience as a mother has really helped her cut through the doldrums and write in a way that makes complete sense, without being judgmental, which is something very rare in a pregnancy book. 

Here you will learn about all of your options from Chapter one's " I am pregnant now What?" To chapter 13's " I am a mom now what?"  This book includes food fun,,home remedies,exercises,to pregnancy sex.   No stone is left unturned when it comes to your questions. Ms. lenkert realizes that every woman will have a different experience, and each may rely on different tools to help make her experience a positive one.

The techniques defined in this book are both common sense and medical, and readily available. They are described as how-to methods, along with the explanation of why they work.

While this book seems to be a natural read for any pregnant woman, it is also a very useful tool for anyone intending to support or educate laboring families. Dads and other partners included. This book provides many techniques and charts, and it is a a great to  handy pocket book for use in labor for the dads and other labor support professionals.

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The Real Deal Guide to Pregnancy by Erika Lenkert

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: DK ADULT; 1 edition (March 3, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0756633869
• ISBN-13: 978-0756633868