What to Expect When You’re Expecting

By: Heidi Murkoff

Narrated by: Heidi Murkoff, Meeghan Holaway, Emma Bing, James Patrick Cronin, Khristine Hvam, Vanessa Johansson, Inés del Castillo, Almarie Guerra, Tanis Parenteau, Mat Vairo, Jasmin Walker, Sofia Willingham

Length: 32 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

It’s all here. Everything you need to know--and can’t wait to find out—about your amazing nine months, from conception to birth and beyond in the world’s best-selling and best-loved pregnancy guide: Heidi Murkoff’s What to Expect When You’re Expecting. And now, only from Audible, you’ll hear it in the reassuring, relatable voice expectant parents turn to for the must-have advice and information they crave and trust.

Heidi’s warm and empathetic narration will put moms- and dads-to-be at ease every step of the way through life’s most incredible journey. With the help of a diverse cast of voices—including her daughter Emma’s (also featured on the cover of What to Expect when she was expecting her first son, Lennox), Heidi answers your most pressing and personal questions and concerns, offering practical advice, realistic insight, easy-to-use tips, and lots of reassurance, along with the most up-to-date medical information. With the landscape of pregnancy and childbirth ever-changing, and with more choices facing expectant parents than ever before, you’ll hear the latest on pregnancy screenings, medications, and supplements during pregnancy, IVF, and multiple pregnancies, breastfeeding while you’re expecting, every birthing option (from VBAC and gentle c-sections to water birth and hypnobirthing)—plus, everything you need to know about your first three months postpartum, aka that vital fourth trimester, including how to spot the signs of postpartum depression and other mood disorders. Your pregnancy lifestyle (from work to working out, travel, beauty, skincare, and more) gets equal attention, as does your pregnant sex life. Get expert advice on juice bars, raw diets, coffee drinking, e-cigarettes and edibles, push presents, baby bump posting, omega-3 fatty acids, grass-fed and organic, health food fads,and GMOs. Expecting to become a dad? This book has you covered, too. It’s your pregnancy explained, demystified—and completely supported.

With more than 19 million copies in print, What to Expect When You’re Expecting is read by 93% of women who read a pregnancy book and was named one of the Most Influential Books of the Last 25 Years by USA Today.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, an accompanying PDF of charts and diagrams will be available in your Audible Desktop Library along with the audio.

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Great Read!

Loved the fact that I could listen to it anywhere!
Book has enough information to learn during pregnancy. Definitely recommend!

Repetitive

It’s a Good book it’s just super repetitive
I learned a lot. I wish there were separate part for the dad.

A life saver during and after my pregnancy!

This is definitely a must have for every mom to be! A hub of every possible thing that can happen during pregnancy!

Better ways to spend your time

The voice is hard to listen to and the information is very basic. There are many other books worth reading.

Too boring and too dense

The author is so desperate to answer every single question and approach every single angle that I found the book so dense and so frustrating. only about a quarter of the info in it applies to me and I spent so long skipping the unnecessary parts I found it a waste of time and effort. the narrator is slow speaking and tough to listen to.

not all authors should be narrators

I couldn't finish it. The narration was so mind-numbing that my pregnant brain always shut down and it lulled me to sleep. The book is great, but the audiobook is not one I can recommend. (Written by Sam's wife)

Helpful, but Painful Listen

This audiobook has some interesting and helpful insights, but is painful to sit through. Between the voices, the extreme detail on irrelevant things to my pregnancy, etc. This would best be enjoyed in print or ebook, so you can skip around easier ... I don’t flip through the table of contents when I’m listening. I listen while I’m busy. I did like the insights for fathers. Some of the advice seems to almost try to empower moms to come up with birth plans that are not the safest option. This plants some weird ideas in moms’ heads. Shouldn’t we be taught what to expect in regards to best practices, rather than given crazy ideas that aren’t even safe to consider?

Ok for people not interested in Science

It was OK primer. I would have liked a more science based approach.

Some of the recommendations are suspect, like using a faster cure time for gel nails. My guess is the UV light is stronger so you'd get a higher UV dose in less time, so if you're trying to decrease the dose, this approach may not work.

Also blastocyst is a proper term, saying that you will fund a cuter name soon just feels ridiculous.

Very informative

Really helped me understand a lot being pregnant for the first time. Settled some fears & taught me a lot

The author writes as though we are children

The writing and reading style is overly cutesy makes me cringe. I can't listen to it any more. The author writes and reads as though the readers/listeners are children. For example, the experience of morning sickness is constantly referred to as "a case of the queezies" and "tummy troubles". I'm a grown woman and just because I'm pregnant does not mean that I've lost my ability to understand nausea and anatomical terms like stomach.
Additionally, as a listening experience, the Q&A sections are hard to navigate. Much of it is not be relevant to each person. It requires constant fast forwarding and you never know what questions are next. The excerpts for male partners are sparse and patronizing (which is hilarious). It is written with the unsympathetic, uninvolved, and clueless stereotype of a male in mind. These also assume there is a male partner or Daddy. Some folks are going at it alone and some folks are not partnered with males.