Michael C. Lu

In Get Ready to Get Pregnant, Dr. Lu provides a lot of important information for women who wish to become pregnant within the next several months (longer, if you plan on getting down to a target weight before getting pregnant, as he suggests). Although the information was interesting and informative at times, I feel that Dr. Lu was a bit of a fear-monger. Is my child really going to have diabetes if I do not get my weight down before getting pregnant? Maybe. Maybe not. Then again, some of the information was quite useful - such as the information on what kinds of foods to eat. Other information was stuff I already knew, and I just ended up skimming a lot of chapters. So, it's a good, very basic, book for people who want to get pregnant, but I suggest not letting it scare you.… (más)

Are you a paranoid, micromanaging, upper middle class expectant mother with too much time on your hands? Do you love reading self help books that give you feelings of guilt, fear, and boredom? Then this book is for you!

As if we didn't have enough to worry about, now I'm worried that everything I eat, do, and think is going to horribly maim or emotionally traumatize my fetus. Stress when pregnant is positively correlated with ADHD? Well, NOW I'm stressed!

This book contains, in readable but frequently repetitive language, long lists of how pretty much everything in the modern environment is bad for fetuses. The part of the book that's not involved with fearmongering is taken up with the obvious: eat well, exercise, take vitamins. I simply didn't find this book useful for answering basic and important questions about getting prepared for pregnancy.… (más)