Book recommendation

After all the pregnancy diaries, magazines and trashy advice books I find this one to be the most appealing. 'Crib Notes: A random reference for the modern parent'.
It will not prepare you for birth or even through your pregnancy, but it will take your mind off your morning sickness and fatigue.
This book has nothing to do with pregnancy in that it is not an advice book, as a reference book it is quite unhelpful, although not useless and you will learn things in here that Miriam Stoppard would never come around to publishing.


It will propose questions such as 'How do the gestational periods of women compare to other mammals'? ( the Indian elephant beats every other creature on the list, with 624 days of pregnancy)... Y'ouch.
It will help you to decipher if your child is the Dali Lama or not, how to make a dog balloon and it will give you stage directions for insy weensy spider, whilst in between teaching you the basics of genetics. Lots of pictures and great spacing, not hard to read even with a pre-12 week migraine, a nice squishy babyish cover too.

I recently gave this book to my best friend who is training to be a midwife, I thought she could pass on all the strange facts on to her patients during the years to come. This book is unique in that it is for people of both sexes and it hardly matters if you are pregnant or not, the trivia alone is really interesting, we're not talking 'by week 7 your baby will have a heartbeat', no. We hear that stuff all the time, in this book you will learn more about the pop culture surrounding parenthood, such as the top toys of the twentieth century!

It helped me see the brighter side of pregnancy, do buy!