The Jewish Pregnancy Book: A Resource for the Soul, Body & Mind During Pregnancy, Birth & the First Three Months

I am very glad I have this book. For some, the most important part will be to help find modern ways of celebrating their pregnancy within a Jewish context. For others, it's a way to link in with traditions that people hardly discuss or even know about anymore. A good book for an age in which we no longer have much folk wisdom passed down within families.

I really love this book and have been recommending it to pregnant women I know! It is a beautiful book and a lot of fun to read- and a great companion for the pregnant Jewish woman in your life. It is the first book to compile all the traditional Jewish sources on pregnancy- and they are presented in a fascinating, fun-to-read way that makes them really pertinent to your experience of pregnancy. It also meant a lot to me that the book addresses a lot of important yet rarely-discussed issues that pregnant women deal with from a Jewish perspective- providing very sensitive and insightful advice, for example, about prenatal testing, miscarriage, coping with finding out that you are pregnant with an abnormal fetus. The book is written by a Reform rabbi and his ob/gyn wife- so it is possible that more traditional readers will be put off by the made up prayers, or other things written from a more liberal perspective. But even for these women, there is still a lot that is worthwhile in this wonderful book. The only thing I did not like was that half the book was about yoga- and I personally did not find that useful. I wish that the first part was just twice as long! chana weisberg- www.JewishPregnancy.org author of Expecting Miracles: Finding Meaning and Spirituality in Pregnancy through Judaism

Pregnancy is a special time, and this book helps to enrich the experience. Dr. Falk and Rabbi Judson have collaborated to create an extraordinary mix of insites into traditions that enhance the spirit, practical advice for difficult moral issues, and old fashioned common sense. I can't think of a more fitting gift from a husband for a wife, from a mother for a daughter, or from one friend to another. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to make a special time even more special.