Everything Else You Need to Know When You're Expecting: The New Etiquette for the New Mom

By Paula Spencer

-- When should you tell your boss you're pregnant?-- How do you let your mother-in-law know that you're not naming the baby after her?-- And what if your water breaks in public?Everything Else You Need to Know When You're Expecting is the complete guide to the old and new customs, traditions, and etiquette for expectant and new parents, and those who love them. After years of both professional and first-hand experience, Paula Spencer has compiled the answers to those questions every woman asks herself as soon as she knows she's expecting. Topics include Pregnancy at Work, Handling Busybodies, and Tricky Issues (such as the all-too-common anxiety about starting labor in a crowd -- or an elevator). There are also detailed explorations of such classic concerns as naming, birth announcements and shower gifts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312243375
• ISBN13: 9780312243371
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Interesting information inside

I liked this book, although it didn't delve as deeply into these issues as I had hoped. It was still a good read, with interesting info and lots of great advice for expectant moms and those women who are hoping to become pregnant soon. I love Mrs. Spencer's personable, easy-to-read writing style!

Fun reading any mom-to-be would eat up!

This book lives up to its title and covers a lot of topics not usually discussed like birth traditions and people who make weird comments to you and telling your boss you're pregnant. I liked the stuff about baby showers too.

I found this book useful as an expectant and new Mom

Being pregnant at the time this book was published, it was very useful. I found this book a great guide to actions I could use daily. The book also gave me confirmation for many things I had already "gotten away with" while being pregnant. Humerous and Helpful. I highly recommend for every expecting Mother!

Everything Else You Need to Know When You're Expecting

Has all the answers to all of my pregnancy questions -- I'm going to recommend it to all of my friends. A perfect gift for expectant moms!