When You’re Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads, Revised Edition: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy
- ISBN13: 9780060542689
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
A Clinically Proven Program for Women Pregnant with Multiples
Completely Updated, with 50 Recipes for Optimal Birth Weight
You’re expecting more than one baby? Congratulations! In When You’re Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads, Dr. Barbara Luke’s practical, nutrition-based program has been proven to lower complications, resulting in much healthier babies. This revision offers more nutritional information, 50 recipes to maximize birth weight, and new guidelines on nutritional needs and vegetarian options. It also includes updated information that reflects the most current obstetric and pediatric practices, such as expanded safety information on exercise and reducing your risk for complications.
Amazon.com Review
The double whammy of successful infertility treatments and an increase in the number of women having children later in life has resulted in a staggering–but perhaps not surprising–phenomenon: a tremendous increase in twin, triple, and quadruple births. When You¹re Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads is an outstanding, much-needed addition to the pregnancy genre for women who face the alternating joy, terror, and ambivalence associated with carrying, delivering, and coping with young multiples.
Subjects like nutrition, mom’s changing body and emotions, fetal development, potential complications, and labor and delivery take on new meaning when you add another baby or two to the standard equation. With the goal of minimizing risk factors associated with multiple births, Dr. Barbara Luke and her team of writers cover each subject with a buoyant determination to tell it all and tell it well–avoiding the typical “how to name and dress your twins” issues. Accompanying the detailed medical perspective of Dr. Luke are personal experiences gathered from the journals of a few articulate moms, making each subject as real as it is educational. Simple illustrations, valuable charts (including one to plot and monitor fetal growth in grams or pounds), specific menu examples (like how can you consume 4,500 calories if you’re expecting quads???), and lots of reassurance make this book a winner. –Liane Thomas
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First of all, Ms. Luke is not a medical doctor. This is not very clearly stated at the outset. The premise of this book is that if you are pregnant with twins you should eat your weight in food. I was 10 weeks pregnant with my twins when I read it and immediately felt overwhelmed by guilt because I hadn’t gained the recommended 25 lbs. in my first trimester. Ms. Luke gives only passing acknowledgement of the dangers of gestational diabetes (caused sometimes by overeating during pregnancy) and her recommendation of a 3000 calorie diet is just irresponsible. This book simply serves to make prospective moms more guilt-ridden about their pregnancies. I spoke to a number of physicians about Luke’s recommendations and they laughed off her suggestions. Twin pregnancy is DEFINITELY different than single pregnancies, but it should not be nearly as terrifying as Ms. Luke makes it out to be. The reality is that most twin pregnancies in countries like the U.S. are healthy and successful. SKIP THIS BOOK and get *The Girlfriend’s Guide to Pregnancy* instead.
Rating: 1 / 5
Other people w/twins recommended this book, but I found it pretty worthless. Here’s basically what it says: eat a high protein diet, especially early in pregnancy b/c you won’t have as much appetite by your third trimester. Why do you need to spend the money on this book for that? I’ve already summarized the whole book for you… Good luck.
Rating: 2 / 5
I hated this book. While it did contain useful information, it also had a lot of stuff that I found offensive. Stuff saying how your triplets did not ask to be triplets (putting the blame on you) and how if something goes wrong its your fault. The section about how the woman treats the husband drove me crazy too. I felt like it was a throw back to the 60s.
Rating: 1 / 5
Its Ok.. I hoped for it to be a little more like What to expect when expecting.. I was disappointed
Rating: 3 / 5
when i found out i was having twins (surprise) i ran to find anything i could read on the subject. i was very offended by the author’s suggestion that most twin pregnancies are so precious… suggesting you should gain large amounts of weight (to support the babies), which my doctor advised against, and that you should not exercise. both of these things are myths that should not be continued in print!
Rating: 2 / 5