The Whole 9 Months: A Week-By-Week Pregnancy Nutrition Guide with Recipes for a Healthy Start Paperback – September 20, 2016

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Every woman goes through different cravings while pregnant, and I think that the negative reviews are coming from women who are sensitive about being told that eating candy and highly processed foods is bad for you when that is all they're craving while pregnant. If you're craving heavy meat and carb dishes during your pregnancy this book may not be for you.But if you're like me and find that your body is craving lighter, healthier meals with little to no meat, this book would be great for you. This is my first pregnancy, I'm at week 16 and 3 days and I cannot bring myself to eat chicken, fish or anything from restaurants bc of how heavy and salty most food is. I *LOVE* some of the recipes in this book which actually have me feeling good after eating! So far my favorites are the Roasted Vegetable Soup, the Arugula Salad and the Vegan Banana Muffins. Although some of the recipes are super quick to make, like the salads and the breakfast recipes, most of the others I've tried require me to make them on a Sunday in preparation for the rest of the week. The roasted vegetable soup recipe makes 2-3 days of lunch/dinner for me (depending how much my hubby has too) and the vegan banana muffins make a great breakfast or snack that lasts about 5 days depending on how much you share :) Trust me, people will want them after they try them - they're the first muffins I've eaten that don't leave me feeling like I have a food coma after - my parents and hubs all love them so I've been making a batch every week.I think this book will have most women feeling their best if they make most of their meals from here. I still eat my processed cookies and the occasional cup noodles that I crave once in a while but for sure the recipes from this book are the reason that I've been feeling good during my pregnancy and motivated enough to work out at home almost every day. Highly recommend giving it a try.

It’s okay. It has some good recipes and helpful info. Just wish it had more pictures and maybe some unique food. Seems very basic.

I bought this thinking it was just a recipe book for my pregnancy (which I was totally fine with) but it has great information throughout the chapters that breaks down what your needs will be by trimester and what to expect. The recipes are at the end, which are pretty simple, and you’re going to want things simplified when you’re growing a human and you’re exhausted. I bought a bunch of other books about what to expect but this book is really a catch all for health and wellness and tips and your changes throughout the trimesters.

I love this book because there were so many things I didn't realize I couldn't have or was bad. This really helped with my eating overall, and I felt great and healthy with these recipes.

It’s not a “week by week” nutrition guide, but a month by month one. The book is written in a cisheterosexist manner that assumes the reader’s gender and also makes binaristic assumptions about the baby’s sex and gender. Most of the recipes are useless for people with common, severe food allergies (like nut allergies) and the recipes offer no substitutions for the common allergens. The nutritional guide about which foods are high in which vitamins and minerals seemed handy until I realized that red meat and poultry contain higher amounts of such vitamins and minerals than most/all of the vegetarian sources but are not even listed and nor are included in the recipes. Cooked fish is recommended by this book, but eating 2 ounces of salmon every other day caused me to have uncontrollable bleeding during my 6th week of pregnancy and both of my doctors told me that pregnant people should actually avoid fish and shellfish entirely not just because of the blood-thinning effect that fatty fish can have, but because seafood is notoriously high in mercury which is especially dangerous to the placenta and the fetus. I will instead be using the free “What to Expect” app to figure out what parts of my baby are especially under development each week, and then doing my own research to find out what nutrition best supports those parts of the body.

Love the layout and the way the information is presented. It's informative and easy to follow.

Really helpful book that I am very happy with. I was looking for a book to recommend certain foods to eat each week and this had that and more, including info about foods, recipes, and information on what is happening/ growing each week.