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Attack of the Fifty-foot Hormones
By Emma Tom
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For many women, the emotional aspects of pregnancy are far more taxing than the physical ones. There's no shortage of studies into the health of the foetus and the physical state of its incubator. But how women feel during pregnancy is largely ignored. It's just pregnancy, right? They'll cope. Unfortunately, not everyone does. This wise and very funny book is the result of hundreds of interviews with sympathetic professionals and pregnant women generous enough to reveal how they stayed sunny side up. It is the essential survival guide to staying sane during pregnancy - a time when complete strangers think it's OK to grope your groin, when it's tempting to eat not just for two but for three or four, and when even the most ginormous underpants fit better back-to-front.

ISBN: 9780732286729
Classification: Pregnancy, birth & baby care
Format: Paperback (232mm x 154mm x 37mm)
Pages: 544
Publish Date: 1-Jul-2009
Country of Publication: Australia

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4 star rating by Boomert - Attack of the 50-Foot Hormones by Emma Tom 12 Jan 2010
Journalist/novelist Emma Tom wrote this guide to the emotional aspects of pregnancy after her own ‘pregnancy panic attacks—terrifying tidal waves that rolled in every time complete strangers revelled in telling horror stories about stillbirths, perforated private parts and never having sex, money or sleep ever again’. Every parent and parent-to-be will know what she’s talking about, and Tom offers excellent (and hilarious) advice on avoiding busybodies and ignoring doomsayers. She also explores the realities: scary statistics and true-life stories of miscarriage, genetic abnormalities, antenatal depression, food and drug risk factors, premature birth, stillbirth and so on. The information is comprehensive and well-researched: each chapter includes an up-to-date guide to relevant books, organisations and websites. It’s not a comfortable read (and so perhaps not the book to help anxious parents-to-be stay sane after all); thankfully it’s leavened by Tom’s week-by-week, noholds- barred pregnancy diary. She covers everything from flatulence, removing her genital jewellery before childbirth, to her burgeoning love of her in utero child. Not the book for a customer wanting a onesize- fits-all pregnancy book, but a useful add-on for the overwrought, courageous or laughter-deprived.

This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine (March 2009, Vol 88, No 6.) is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.

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