Dr. Ruth's Pregnancy Guide for Couples: Love, Sex and Medical Facts

by Ruth Westheimer and Amos Grunebaum

This book offers helpful tips, case studies, and question and answer features about sexual activity, getting pregnant, being pregnant, delivering a baby, and keeping sex alive before, during, and after pregnancy. It focuses on maintaining a healthy relationship and sex life during pregnancy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041591972X
• ISBN13: 9780415919722
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

GREAT INFO., MUST READ! BEST NUTRITION ADVICE

I got this book without concluding that if Dr. Ruth cowrote it it would have to be focused on sexual intimacy. While sexual intimacy and gratification are thoroughly discussed, there is much more to the book (and to sex by the way). All women and couples need to remember their sexuality during pregnancy and prepare for the changes that pregnancy and parenthood will bring. You can't expect to take sex out of a marraige and pick up a year later exactly where you left off. So many couples complain about how having a baby ruins their sex life or puts a major strain on it but it doesn't have to be that way if you are prepared!This advice is so important it is shameful that hardly any pregnnacy books address these issues. This book has the best advice on nutrition I have found in any of the more mainstream and popular pregnancy books I have read. It is even better than what I have heard from Dr.s and midwives who only seem to have vague or terribly rigid and unscientific biases about nutrition. This comprehensive book is very medical and takes you from preconception to labor. The most beautiful thing about it is the importance and validation it places on the couple who are growing into a new life stage together as parents.

A very serious and funny book

Most pregnancy books provide you with dry and boring information. This book co-written by the famous Dr.Ruth with Dr.Grunebaum, a New York ObGyn, provides you with refreshing and medically accurate information. It's different than other books because it addresses issues that other books won't even talk about like sexual positions, masturbation, and orgasm. Highly recommended.

Throw away "What to Expect ....."

Everyone, I mean, everyone buys "What to expect when you are expecting" for pregnancy. But have you ever read it? Well, I have, and I have read Dr.Ruth's book, too. And Dr.Ruth has really "done it", so to speak. Clear, concise, to the point. With enough pictures to get the point across. Pregnancy can be fun again.

Very refreshing and unique information

There are so many pregnancy books out there, and what does Dr. Ruth know about pregnancy anyway? Well, I was really positively surprised. Many people don't realize it, but it's sex that gets you pregnant in the first place, so this book makes a lot of sense. And it doen't stop there. There is also plentiful updated medical information for everyone who has additional questions. A great addition to everyone's pregnancy book collection!

Great book for pregnant couples and those trying

This book is a great introduction for couples trying to get pregnant and those already pregnant.