From Here to Maternity - Mel Giedroyc

Mel, as in Mel and Sue, as in Late Lunch, has written her "mumoirs"... a humourous account of her pregnancy. My husband brought it home for me to read knowing that my post-birth brain is still mush, and that my favoured current reading material is brightly coloured and animal-based with waterproof pages and no words. This is about as taxing to read. There's nothing wrong with the odd "fluffy" read, and so long as you aren't expecting more than that ...
...days of her pregnancy in diary format, with some days comprising just a few paragraphs, others a few pages. Like most first time mums, she is appalled to find her baby hasn't arrived on her due date, and takes to taking to it sternly through the shower attachment. We hear about her discovery that she is pregnant, and all her associated symptoms - the overpowering sense of smell, the nausea, the sleeplessness, the food cravings, the exhaustion: all ...

molelover 01.05.2005 · Read full review
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...myself into. But aside from that, (because lets face it, anything to do with labour was enough to send me into a panicked frenzy at 7 months) it's a fantasticly written book about Mel's road to Motherhood. It's not written in the normal way, i.e. Chapter 1, 2, 3 etc, but buy days/weeks into her pregnancy, so it was quite interesting to read what she was going through at various stages of her pregnancy. Poor thing had terrible morning sickness in ...
...the feeling just before vomiting) and goes over due by 2 weeks, there is a hilarious moment when she's talking to her tummy through a shower attachment ordering her unborn child to make it's way to the exit! It's quite a short book, you could probably read it in a few hours - my reading time was rudely interupted by me having to get off the bus, but I did find myself reading the last part of each chapter once I got into work - rather than turning ...

Kerpots 03.01.2005 · Read full review
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...was looking for something different from all the pregnany help guides out there which looked abit intimidating. This book appealed to me as it is a diary by someone rather than a book describing exactly what happens at week 10, etcc. I enjoyed this book as it was quick to read but also easy and funny enough to keep me interested. It was also refreshing as it is down to earth and made a change from pregnancy books by most celebrities who describe ...
...tiny bumps! I think most people can relate to how Mel feels during certain times in her pregnancy. The book starts when Mel doesnt yet know that she is pregant and chapters are simply.. Monday, Tuesday.. then when she finds out the chapters change to the format 200 days to go.. and so on... The only bit that annoyed me about this book was at the end as I would have liked a few chapters about how she had coped in the days after the birth which makes ...

chellie81 04.02.2007 · Read full review
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This book was just what i needed when i was pregnant with my 3rd child . I would read my week by week guide to pregnancy every day but when you get to the stage of reading it for the forth time in one day (and it's still only lunch time )it can get a bit boring. So when i came across an advert in one of my many pregnancy mag's for this book i went off to get a copy. I got home and got stuck in to this book and found myself in fits of laughter throughout ...
...hubby would want to know what i'm giggling at in the wee hours of the morning when im up with heartburn. All the way through this book there were things i could relate to i and see the funny side of like, hormones , the morning sickness, the i'm eating for two but looks like eating for two million, and pelvic floor exercise's. This book is wonderfull & very funny i even took it in to the labour ward with me and still read it now and my daughter ...

ANGEL_CLAIR 01.02.2006 · Read full review
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