When I started writing about the book What to Expect When You’re Expecting yesterday, I pulled my pregnancy book of the shelf, thinking it was that book, but it wasn’t. It was Your Pregnancy Week by Week. I guess I’m not that great with titles!

A friend gave me Your Pregnancy Week by Week by Dr. Glade Curtis and Judith Schuler when she was done with her copy back when I was trying to conceive our angel baby Darcy as a good luck present. I like this book because it’s broken down weekly, and we all know that your body and your unborn baby change weekly during pregnancy and it takes you through each week, detailing the changes within your body and with your unborn baby. Each week it tells you approximately how big your baby is that week, what is changing with your body that week, and includes weekly tips and warnings. Scattered in different spots through out the book are also blank lined pages for you to write notes on and there are pages at the end of each trimester section to jot down things that happened at your doctor appointments, how you are feeling, etc..

Here is what Amazon had to say:

Pregnancy should be a time of wonder and hope, but these days, it's associated more often with paranoia. Dr. Glade Curtis is keenly aware of the anxieties heaped upon expectant women: he has written several pregnancy-related books. So while he covers pretty much any topic that an expectant mom might be concerned about, he does not overload the reader with extraneous information or horror stories that can be found in that other best-selling pregnancy guide. In this completely revised and updated edition, Curtis describes the physical developments from weeks 1 through 40--or 41 or 42!--such as the size and weight of the baby, emotional changes in the mother, typical medical tests offered, and nutritional requirements. (The iron found in prenatal vitamins may exacerbate morning sickness, he writes, because iron supplementation is usually not needed until the final trimester.) It is too bad that Dr. Curtis does not recommend more alternative-medicine approaches for treating common pregnancy discomforts. In the chapter covering Week 8, he rightly describes sciatic-nerve pain as excruciating, but does not advise yoga or chiropractic treatments for its relief. However, he *is* hip to the use of doulas, or labor coaches, he encourages breastfeeding, and includes numerous tips for making your partner feel included in what should be a thrilling experience for you both. --Erica Jorgensen

Your Pregnancy Week by Week is now in its fifth edition each time being updated with new information.