I bought this book for my husband when we found out that we were expecting our first child. After reading through about half of the book, he asked me to throw it away. The writer is a huge downer; he complained about EVERYTHING in the hospital and at the last minute he decided that he would not be in the room when his baby was born! My husband did not feel that this was the type of perspective that he wanted to learn from his first time into fatherhood.