Busy though- soon to come- the funniest Mother’s Day Card ever.

When I agreed to this bok tour, I really expected to find something different within the pages of this book. I thought it would be simple. I thought it would be very focused on the career driven powerhouse women I see strutting the streets of San Francisco sporting black heels and blackberries. I thought wrong.

The Working Woman’s Pregnancy Book by Marjorie Greenfieldis a remarkable resource for all pregnant women. Now, I am an information junkie. I research the fun right out of nearly every endeavor, and pregnancy was no different for me. I thought I knew what I was getting in to when I got knocked up with #1, and then discovered that all I knew about was typical. I am atypical. Very few of the usual rules applied to me, and being told what to expect was more like, “Ha, ha wouldn’t that have been nice! Welcome to the brutal reality!”

I have been pregnant three times. Twice I had debilitating hyperemesis, twice I had preterm labor, twice I had preemies, once I ran out of amniotic fluid, once I lost the baby. I have been educated on this rollercoaster, and I always found books on the topic to be lacking, or overly simplified, or directed so exclusively at one demographic that I felt it didn’t apply. This book manages to have it all, hit every demographic, and it is written from the perspective of an obstetrician. What’s more, it is written from the perspective of a woman.

I loved the part on eating during a pregnancy. My first time around I bought a book that told me exactly how many of every thing I needed to eat and how often. Then came about six months where the only thing that stayed down was being pumped directly into my veins. What to eat when you’re expecting? Anything that will stay down!

I know there are women who have stellar pregnancies. They were born to breed and sail through the trimesters like prize-fighters, while I languish by my toilet bowl and in my hospital bed as I fight to hold on to my babies. This book is good enough for both of us, and that is really something.