Customer Reviews
The pregnancy book equivalant of ok magazine - By: Ms. J. Dales, 19 Jun 2008 
If you want a bit of light heartedness to read during your pregnancy that isnt going to tax the brain with medical jargan & that you can take with a pinch of salt then this book is a good read.
Kindda like the pregnancy book equivalant of ok magazine, i enjoyed it
insincere - too many airbrushed staged photos - By: Booklover1980, 23 May 2008 
I read this book after reading the Jools Oliver book, thinking it would give me some useful info. To me this book was nothing like my life (eg working as a modelin the Bahamas!!, Private care etc) it was useful how it split the weeks down & said what should be happening etc but apart from that I got nothing from this book. another thing was that the Jools oliver book has really nice natural photos you could imagine from a family album. This book all the Photos where staged & airbrushed making this book very contrived & just a chance for Mylene to make money.
tripe - By: MagicMary, 13 May 2008 
Obviously someone approached Myleene to write this book during her pregnancy as a nice little earner. I am sure it has filled what few gaps an air-brushed M&S ad campaign has leftin her pockets. Unfortunately it is a pile of prettily-packaged celebrity gibberish, with nothing useful for pregnant women to glean that I could discover.
As a health professional who works with pregnant & post-natal women, I was disappointed to read her tip for labour which basically entailed: have an epidural, lie back & let the doctors take care of it. The last thing pregnant women need is more scaremongering about childbirth. I also found her post-labour diet pretty shocking - there she was necking diet coke after the birth & breast-feeding???!!
I can think of plenty of my clients who have struggled with fertility taking issue with her 'I got pregnant unexpectedly & easily because I was so relaxed & fit' tip when she had revealed a few paragraphs earlier that around the time of conception she had been running around & hardly seen her partner except to argue. If there was one small mercy of this book, it was that she advocated breast-feeding.
Peoplein Myleene's position have to be aware of the power they exert over the average woman who just happens upon her bookin a shop. Sound diet advice, backed up by health professionals, a respectful understanding of natural birth & all the many benefits a drug-free approach can bring - these are the things I would like to readin a celebrity account of pregnancy & birth. One can't help but think that these people who have spent so long being pushed around by record company managers & ad sales people, have got so used to being told what to doin life that they are perfectly willing to lie on their backs like stranded beetles & have pregnancy & birth 'done to them'. Where are all the powerful, strong-minded, unique celebrity women telling joyful tales of pregnancy & wonderous birth? If you do buy this book, please take the time to do further reading on this most magical of times - anything by Sheila Kitzinger or Michel Odent should provide you with food for thought & a wonderful sense of anticipation.
pregnancy obsessed - By: Neil, 16 Apr 2008 This is obviously a reader friendly guide to pregnancy & full of useful information-however I think readers & viewers will soon tire of Myleene Klass's constant references to her motherhoodin almost every interview & TV appearance she gives . Please realise Myleene you do not "own" motherhood-lets have a change please.
Enjoyable flim-flam - By: Roadrunner, 02 Apr 2008 
I was a bit irritated about this book claiming to be the first 'warts & all' account of pregnancy since it clearly is not. Nonetheless I could not resist paying £15 (did not get it from Amazon) to read about Mylene's experiences. I did find it quite humorous & enjoyable but like others could not really relate that much to her - her biggest problem was keeping her pregnancy a secret from the press! Although I thought it was quite well written there was not a great deal to it & I felt really short changed by the 'helpful' addresses etc. at the back - if you lookin the back pages of Vogue there is a much better list of maternity wear providers & a Google search will give you some good web links. Overall I got the impression there was a rush to put this book together & the value for money suffered as a result. Having said that if you discover a friend is pregnant it would make a nice gift.
