This may be a good book for practitioners, but it is not a good book for pregnant women. The advice and information here is presented in such a negative, harsh manner that a reader comes away with the feeling that if she managed to beat the incredible odds against her & her baby and actually have a healthy baby, it would be a miracle. Dr. Shapiro has absolutely *no* "bedside manner" and he puts the worst news first: only after being scared to death would a woman learn, for example, that the risks of flying during pregnancy are actually quite minimal. Other books will answer your questions and will do it without scaring you to death, undermining your confidence in your own body's ability to grow a healthy baby, and have you worrying needlessly.