216 pages ; 20 cm
"A refreshingly frank and funny take on motherhood written by one of the Guardian's most popular columnists. There are more pregnancy and motherhood advice books out there than you can shake a Clearblue stick at. Most of them are earnest, some of them are finger-wagging, other seemed designed to make you feel guilty every second of the day. This is not one of those books. Written by Zoe Williams, the Guardian journalist behind the hilarious 'Anti-natal' column, What Not to Expect When You're Expecting is a straight-talking corrective to the sea of advice that engulfs pregnant women and new mums. It considers such issues as the overbearing public guidelines on what not to eat or drink, 'women shouldn't be treated like three-year-olds, arily instructed in the way of things with no proper explanation, ' weighs up the relative merits of different childcare routines, 'It doesn't make any sodding difference. There are easy babies and difficult babies, and, before you know it, they're no longer babies, ' and even considers the correct response to the question, 'Who's fatter, my sister or me?' Witty, wry and occasionally even informative, What Not to Expect When You're Expecting is the refreshing antidote to standard parenting books."--Amazon.com
Includes index

Zoe Williams

Guardian Business Services

Guardian Newspapers Ltd

London: Guardian

Random House UK

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

PS, 2012

Includes index.

A refreshingly frank and funny take on motherhood that is not designed to make you feel guilty I have 10 worries, and the first nine are all variations on the theme of labor and "Is there really a baby in there, or just some lizards?" Over the course of her first two pregnancies, Zoe Williams shared her forthright insights into impending and new motherhood in her regular Guardian "Anti-natal" column, astraight-talking corrective to the sea of advice that engulfs pregnant women and new moms. Whether bemoaning the fact that simply being pregnant seemed to give overbearing people the urge to comment on everything she ate, drank, or wore ( I'm drinking coffee and suddenly that makes me an evil mom-to-be. What is wrong with these people? ) or inventing elaborate lies to explain why she was late to take her first born for his injections ( Perhaps I moved to Italy, but the economic downturn destroyed my prospects and I had to move back. ) her commentary is honest, feisty, andin some casesdownright hilarious.This antidote to standard parenting booksoffers an idiosyncratic, individual take on becoming a moma pregnancy companion with attitude.

2023-06-28