This was a wonderful book. it gives a very accurate look at pregnancy. Many truths that most of us aren't told about during our first pregnancy but that everyone wants to share with you afterwards. McCarthy shows a humourous side of the wonders of being pregnant. I laughed out loud and in the end shed a few tears. Might have made me nervous to read before I had my first child but allowed me to see the lighter side of the crazy, strange, amazing truths of pregnancy and child birth after my first pregnancy. This makes a wonderful shower gift.