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Potter Style; SPI edition (March 7, 2006)

The Belly Book: A Nine-Month Journal for You and Your Growing Belly (Potter Style) by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

The Belly Book: A Nine-Month Journal for You and Your Growing Belly (Potter Style) by Amy Krouse Rosenthal is I looked through dozens of these sorts of books on Amazon, at the bookstore, and on Etsy. I am so glad I chose this book. So the name is really hokey, and it's not as cute as some of the others. I can get over that, as the inside of the book is great. A lot of the books I looked at had some really weird questions in them to answer and too much focus on "my growing boobs" and "I'm puking all the time" and things you wouldn't exactly want in a book. This book covers those topics but in a more tactful, polite way. Yet, it's still fun. The prompts/questions were by far the best of all the books I saw. I also like that the book is organized by weeks, not months, and has space for belly bump pictures and ultrasound photos. There is a page for each prenatal visit and for each week. There are also other pages regarding how we told family, etc. I feel like this book covers all the essentials in a fun yet diplomatic way (won't feel weird about sharing it with people), and is the right length. I'd intended to also keep a journal, but I've been so tired that I've just been writing in this book. It has been a fun experience.

The Belly Book: A Nine-Month Journal for You and Your Growing Belly (Potter Style) by Amy Krouse Rosenthal is I love it! There are lots of spots for u/s and belly pics, and so far it seems to hit all of the milestones with me. Edit :This book says the 2ND trimester ends at the end of the 24th week, which is wrong! Now I'm upset, because the whole 2nd half of my book is wrong. :-(

The Belly Book: A Nine-Month Journal for You and Your Growing Belly (Potter Style) by Amy Krouse Rosenthal is Great book that has just enough guidance but also has space for you to add extra thoughts for your baby. This is our first baby and I wanted a simple book to remember these moments and for my child to have one day. I'm a crafty person but having too much "freeness" with things like this can stress me out. So I'd say it's the perfect amount of guidance questions with blank spaces to add other thoughts. It's separated into trimesters and by weeks. It also has some humor in it with questions like "How big is your appetite? The size of Rhoad Island, Texas, or Louisiana purchase?" I only wish it had a folder/envelope for each trimester to hold extra pictures and such but that doesn't take away from how cute and useful it is. Great way to track belly photos and doctor visits also with keeping track of the joys and not so joys of being pregnant. It's a good buy.If you do purchase, read through the whole thing once you get it so you remember to write down things like "first time I felt the flutter" or "first time I wore maternity clothes."

The Belly Book: A Nine-Month Journal for You and Your Growing Belly (Potter Style) by Amy Krouse Rosenthal is This is our first pregnancy and I was looking for a book to record the experience. This one is good but not amazing.Pros:-- It's simple but cute.-- Some of the wording is clever and funny.-- It has a band that can be used to keep it from opening up randomly.-- It has pages dedicated to appointments and a spot to glue/tape your ultrasound-- It has belly pic pages (although I do mention a con with this one also)Cons:-- A lot of the first trimester (of mine anyway) will be empty because they have so many pages dedicated to week by week belly picks. I'm 14 weeks and only just started having a tiny bump a couple of weeks ago, so those pages are useless unless I just want to look at my normal pre-pregnancy belly.-- Another thing that didn't line up was our heartbeat appointment. In the book it is, I believe, the first thing for the second trimester. I didn't realize and wrote our experience in at our 12 week appointment, because that is when it happened.-- There is a lot in the book that is useless to me because it has nothing to do with pregnancy, to me anyway. Like asking me what type of music I'm listening to this week....the same music I was listening to last week and pre-pregnancy. I feel like with some of those questions it starts acting more like a diary/journal instead of a pregnancy book/journal. But if you like that sort of thing then that would be a pro for you of course!None of the cons are HUGE deal breakers and I did search many books on Amazon, some of which were awful in my opinion and even worse in the "diary" likeness. This one does help you keep a record of appontments and how you felt, and have the spots for the pictures, etc. Spend some time browsing the books before you buy and make sure this is what you were looking for though.