Pregnancy for Dummies

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Starring: Pregnancy for Dummies
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Type: DVD
Studio: Wellspring Media
Release Date: 2002-12-03
Running Time: 180 minutes
Number of Items: 2
From prenatal testing through colic, this comprehensive video guide ushers viewers through the same territory as its namesake book. Divided into four parts (one for each trimester and a section on baby's first three months), this three-hour, two-disc set animates Wendy, the anxious cartoon mom-to-be, and uses real patients of the book's physician authors to illustrate the various aspects of pregnancy and birth. While separating serious concerns with "Call the doctor" icons, it also includes playful bits like a list of old wives' tales and a game-show format in which Wendy is quizzed on when labor has really begun. From the mundane of shopping for baby things to the profound concerns of birth defects, gestational diabetes, and postpartum depression, almost all aspects of the process are touched upon. The last section takes parents and baby from the Apgar score through a step-by-step guide to changing diapers. Although a terrific overview, this set still can't provide the more specific information of a book. --Kimberly Heinrichs

excilent watch
This dvd is great for first time mums that dont understand the medical mumbo jumbo. It explians everything in great communication. I loved this dvd dont care what other people say about it but I love it.

Truly is for dummies
This DVD set truly is for dummies. It moves at a very slow pace, and gives the most basic information that you could just read in a concise pregnancy book in 1/5th the time. Worse than that, it shows the births of three women, and not one of them had a natural birth! All of them had epidurals- one ending up with forceps (as a result of the epidural, no doubt), and the other ending up with a c-section. So it gives you absolutely no demonstration of how to use relaxation, positions, breathing to make labor easier; and it doesn't teach anything about how transition between 1st and 2nd stage labor is the hardest part where you feel like giving up and getting drugs but it only lasts for ten minutes. This DVD gives a woman no options- only to be drugged up! It was a truly sad representation of birth. Where can you get a pregnancy DVD that is neither overly-medical nor overly-new-agey? Why are people so polarized in this country? Are there no thinkers who can take the best of both worlds and use a variety of strategies to make for a wonderful birth?

Fun!
I thought this video was super cute and I think a few of the negative reviews are being too harsh. It is corky and not a perfect video but it's supposed to be educational with a funny twist. Noone out there expecting should just depend on just one source for information. If you want to laugh and smile and still learn a lot about pregnancy period...than get it! It's worth. Although, it doesn't serve much purpose after the baby because there's really no information on how to take care your baby for years to come. This is strictly a pregnancy tape. Enjoy.

If you ONLY want an Epidural
Although I like "Wendy" and a lot of the information presented for the prenatal and postpartum sections of the video I found L&D the information lacking. It lacked a since of empowerment of the mother and father. This is after all their birth! It didn't show any ideas for comfort measures. It didn't give the risk of the hospital procedures or options to avoid them.

It gives ALL the responsibility and credit to the doctors. I found that sad. A real education goes much deeper than teaching you how to be a good patient.

If you're truly a 'dummy' GET AN EDUCATION....NOT PREGNANT!!!
WHAT THE??? This "for dummies" series has gone TOO FAR...this series caters to so many different topics over the years, it's clear to me now that the "dummy" is now the majority. Things today are so dumbed-down, broken-down, pre-masticated, cutesy-fied and sanitized for your protection, nobody does any THINKING anymore....Doesn't sound like the type you want to encourage to get PREGNANT, does it? Not to me....

I saw this book being given at a baby shower and it just made me blow a fuse. THIS TITLE SHOULD NOT EXIST!! Dummies, or anyone who would feel the least bit comfortable bearing such a description IS UNFIT to be a parent, LET ALONE become PREGNANT!!! Please, please do society a favor and EDUCATE YOURSELF....just WITHOUT using material that panders to idiots....ideally BEFORE you get pregnant!! If these conditions continue for much longer, you just may force the government's hand into mandating parenting licenses!!!

Now, getting beyond the title...About the material: A good portion of the "information" was stuff I learned from "that particular mandatory class" from high school....meaning: STUFF YOU SHOULD ALREADY KNOW!! The rest can be very easily obtained at the doctor's office (where you should already be going anyhow) and there is more information about pregnancy than you'd know what to do with at most local libraries...that is IF you read above a grade-school level....Something that posessing or reading this book would suggest otherwise!!!