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Before Your Pregnancy: A 90 Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception by Amy Ogle

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Huh. I’m glad I read this, and I’ll keep it around for the vitamins/minerals charts, but overall . . . not so much. This book pays lipservice to the notion that straight married people aren’t the only ones having babies by using the word “partner,” but then doesn’t manage to include anyone LGBT or single having a child anywhere in over 500 pages that I saw. And they want to cover a lot of ground about health and reproduction, so they can’t really dig into anything, with the unfortunate overall impression that they think diet and exercise can solve anything, which is not even really what they believe.

But mostly, anyone who gives the BMI this much credence has lost a lot of my respect. I am a living breathing example of why the BMI is bullshit as a health measurement tool. According to it, I am teetering on the very top end of normal/acceptable, just a few tenths of a point below overweight. And everyone who has met me is now laughing, because I am, in fact, a U.S. size 6, an athlete, and in glowing health.

So I wrote off the fitness chapters, and was highly suspicious of the nutrition information (the food pyramid website? seriously?). But you know. It was a decent place to start.

However, the phrase “providing womb service” is just never not going to kneejerk piss me off.

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