Just another diet book, targeted to a different audience

This book did not offer anything new from the usual "everything in moderation", except for no smoking, no drinking and take your prenatal vitamins. Chances are, if you were healthy before pregnancy, you will continue to be healthy in pregnancy, if you were not healthy before, now it is a good time to become healthy, but if you were struggling with losing weight, this book will seem like any other diet book in the market.

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Makes it very easy to be healthy for yourself and your baby

How does a car run? It needs all the essentials: gas, oil, break pads, etc. Without one of these, the car doesn't function like it could. Same with our bodies. This book really spells this out.

A little uptight (forgive yourself-you are human) at times, but this book has a list of all the minerals and vitamins we need in a day to be healthy for ourselves and our baby, how much we need in each trimester (and after), and what foods to eat in order to get them. Believe it or not, it is easier than you think.

I started being a health nut and exercise freak at age 14. A decade later, I started reading this book before my daughter was conceived to find out how to supply for two. It has some great recipes, advice, and tells you what mineral and vitamin does for you and your baby at each stage.

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Just what I had expected

I thought this book was very useful. I bought it as soon as I found out I was pregnant with our first child because I wanted to ensure that my developing baby was getting proper nutrition. This book achieved that purpose. As a scientist, I had read several studies that found evidence of the nutritional status of the mother in the health of her future grandchildren. Moreover, that my diet could affect what diseases, if any my child developed later in life. I wanted to make sure the legacy I created would be a good one. This book was broken down into the nutrition needed for each stage. There were sections for pre-pregnancy, a section for each of the three trimesters and post pregnancy (which included sections for nutrients needed while breastfeeding and returning to pre-pregnancy weight.) It also included mock menu's and recipe ideas. Overall I thought it was a good book to have particularly if you own no other books on the subject. Particularly useful were the charts listing types of foods containing the nutrients you need. There were also descriptions about the vitamins and minerals needed and why the baby needs them. This book is definitely a keeper.

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