The Aussie bloke's guide to all the stuff you need to know, prepare, paint, pack, do and fix - for the best moment of your life - and co-authored by a male mid-wife!
The concept for MAN WITH A PRAM was born (excuse the pun) from the authors' observations that most men were not interested in the current pregnancy literature on the market. Added to this was the observation that many a pregnant partner seemed to be frustrated by this perceived lack of interest in pregnancy literature.
Essentially, the current pregnancy literature isn't interesting for men because it's aimed at women, it's all a bit peaches and cream, a bit preachy, over-serious and well. . . Boring! Let's face it, most men would rather walk over broken glass (or watch sport) than read a book punctuated with fog lensed pictures of smiling pregnant women with chapters entitled 'How You're Feeling'. The authors reasoned that for a pregnancy book to appeal to men it needed to state the facts of pregnancy issues while couching them in humour, science, statistics, trivia and male orientated advice: basically things that men like to read about.
THE AUTHORS
Jon Farry is a father of four (twins included) and is a nurse and qualified midwife, quite a rarity really. Being a man, a father and a midwife he is excellently qualified to co-author a book about pregnancy for men and to prove it he's started one. His interests include bird-watching of rare inner city species and he has a passion for garage table tennis. Steve Mitchell has a background in graphic design, publishing and education. He is also a man, a father and some say quite funny, making him well qualified to co-author a book about pregnancy for men.
Published September 2010 by Hachette Australia RRP$24.99
In today's community where family support is not as prevalent as it was a few generations ago, parenting books are a great source of advice, parenting tips and general parenting information. Most parenting journals are available in general books stores whilst some authors also chose to retail their parenting books online direct to the public. You can also consider borrowing the book from your local library. Whatever your choice, remember, knowledge is the lightest thing to carry (as my dad always used to tell me when I was at highschool!).
My husband actually read the whole thing (who'd have thought) and spent a lot of time giggling. I recommend.
ReplyDeleteTina, Perth
My partner read it. He thought it was good and it was nice for him to TELL ME things about the pregnancy.
ReplyDeleteJan
Redfern.
A friend put me onto this so i bought it for my husband and despite my skepticism he actually read it and is now quite informed!!
ReplyDeleteJane,
Sunshine Coast