Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year: A Guide to Health and Comfort Before and After Your Baby Is Born: Amazon.ca: Elizabeth Noble: Books

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The third edition of this landmark book brings readers up to date on advancesmade since 1982 and features a new chapter on the popular, helpful exercisesfor partners together.

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Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year was my first book, and I now have the pleasure of publishing this expanded and updated fourth edition myself, after gaining experience and insights from several other publications. Read the first page

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2.0 out of 5 stars Take with a grain of salt, May 18 1998

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S. Booth (sbooth3555@aol.com) (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year: A Guide to Health and Comfort Before and After Your Baby Is Born (Paperback)

While the exercises in this book look useful and I plan to do them, they only make up about 10% of the book, and the rest, frankly, sounds crackpot to me. I bought a book with "exercises" in the title; I don't want to read about hypnotism in childbirth, the absolute necessity of a completely drug-free labor and delivery, or telepathic communication with your unborn child.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Probably not for women who are already exercisers, Aug 30 2002

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oaklandfamily (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year: A Guide to Health and Comfort Before and After Your Baby Is Born (Paperback)

Although this book has some really interesting points on abdominal exercises (although the other reviewers are right about the poor organization; and, there are typos and visually the pages are very cluttered), it absolutely does not offer an overall fitness program. It's much more like a physical therapy program focussed on abs and pelvic floor. So, if what you're looking for is supplemental exercises to add, it may be fine for you, but I'm going back to the drawing board to find a more all-purpose pregnancy exercise book. Plus, I think I can handle more than three or four crunches (I think she says you can do "up to five").

Also, be aware that the author has a judgmental streak. I may agree with some of her digs at the medical establishment (I was delighted, for example, to hear her pooh-pooh the idea that lying or exercising on your back will cause supine hypotension), but when she aims her barbs at women with bad posture, for example, it seems counter-productive (I could do without the screaming jagged "NO!"s next to the pictures of incorrect posture).

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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year, April 12 2001

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Delisle - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year: A Guide to Health and Comfort Before and After Your Baby Is Born (Paperback)

I have been reading the 1982 version of this book, not realizing there was a new edition. Happily while reading another book, The Mommy Guide, I read an interview with the author of Essential Exercises, Elizabeth Noble, and found out there was a more recent edition. Anyway, in the interview Ms. Noble refers to the importance of doing abdominal isometric exercises within 24-hours of giving birth. She states that the abdominal muscles are still flexible at this point and it's possible to shorten them in order to begin toning your stretched out midsection. Have any of the readers of this book tried this? Does it work? I would love to contact the author regarding this exercise, but the e-mail address listed on this page comes back undeliverable. If you're reading this Elizabeth, could you e-mail me at srdd@hotmail.com? Overall, the 1982 edition is amazingly helpful. It's great to get the advice of a physcial therapist regarding proper movement during pregnancy. I look forward to reading the current edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year
I didn't realize that there was a more recent edition of this book until today! I have been reading the 1982 edition in preparation for my third pregnancy. Read more

Published on April 12 2001 by Delisle

3.0 out of 5 stars Information without organization
This book is an unfortunate mix of great information and important exercises combined with organization so poor it is difficult to read. Read more

Published on Sep 5 2000