How accurate are all the pregnancy and childcare books?

[fineanddandy]

About to start TTC and have read literally dozens of books on pregnancy and childbrith and am getting more and more freaked out by what they say, mostly about the bits that say that your body is forever altered and never the same as it was! How reliable are these books?

I'm the same.......I think!
Tummy slightly floppier but then it was never flat unfortunately.............

Well, your body is forever altered and never the same, but it's not a terrible thing. Dh says my hips are much nicer since I had ds as they are wider now. My tummy was pretty much back to where it always was (prior to falling pg again) and my bust shrunk after breastfeeding which I was very pleased about.

Remember that they are both very subjective things so you will get lots of different viewpoints...

The other thing fineandandy, and I know it's a massive cliche, but you don't care like you think you will care IYKWIM. I sort of vaguely worried about this throughout my pregnancy but once dd had arrived I was so over the moon to have her that I didn't really give a monkeys what i looked like.

Now 18 months on I look pretty much like I did before but with smaller boobs, same as mumpbump (not so good for me as I was an A cup before so you can imagine my pitiful state now!)

But as well as not really caring, you also have the fantastic excuse of having been pregnant so you can now look great CONSIDERING you've had a baby , add that to looks good FOR HER AGE and you can be an absolute shocker and get away with it - brilliant!!