World Famous Comics: Breathe: A Guy's Guide to Pregnancy
Breathe: A Guy's Guide to Pregnancy
By: Mason Brown Publisher: Simon & Schuster Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Simon & Schuster Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 192 Publication Date: February 05, 2002
Product Description: Finally, a book for guys that solves the riddles of pregnancy.
Do you think that newborn babies can eat Doritos? That they can't scream very loudly since they just have tiny little baby lungs? That you will still be able to golf on weekends after your baby is born?
If so, you need this book!
Breathe takes guys misstep-by-misstep through the stages of pregnancy and the early days of childhood. Considered by many to be the unofficial pregnancy handbook of the NBA, Breathe is filled with useful tips such as these:
Brown's First Law of Conception: The odds of conception are inversely proportional to its desirability. High school virgins experimenting behind bleachers are guaranteed to get pregnant; financially secure married men hoping for children are doomed to spend their weekends in fertility clinics masturbating into cups.
Picking a doctor: Never use a gynecologist whose Medical School Diploma has palm trees on the side.
Pre-Natal Music: Mozart, yes. Wagner, No!
Common Concerns: If your baby is born with dark hair that covers its head, back, neck, temples and forehead, don't panic. This is perfectly normal. It just means your baby was born Italian.
Child experts from all over the world agree -- if you're a first time father, drop your baby and pick up this book!
this book is funny,... if you have an IQ of 60 This book is L-A-M-E. I couldnt get past the first chapter. Its derogatory towards women and men. First, by making wives out to be baby machines with no thoughts of their own, and secondly, by making men out to be, at best, dogs.
Dont waste your time or your money.
Don't bother with this book! This book is completely useless. It doesn't help a guy through his partner's pregnancy, it gives suggestions such as: "pack night vision goggles to take to the delivery with you". Save your money for a better book!
Distasteful Humor I would not recommend this book to anyone. As a woman I found it appaling and rude. My husband took one look at it and threw it back on the coffe table. I will give you some examples of how aweful this book is. In the very beginning the book gave examples of how men can enjoy the "practice" of getting pregnant without getting the wife pregnant. It suggests purchasing a hot cup of McDonalds coffee, placing between you thighs, and spilling it on yourself. Another example is: Ideal places to look for adoptive children - The ladies room at a high school prom. I didn't even get to page 10, I was in shock. Granted it is supposed to be humorous, but this kind of humor should not be in book form, it should be saved for something like the Man show.
For people with a sense of humor, this is a great book... I found this book hilarious. I read some of the other reviews, and frankly found them to miss the point entirely. It's as if they went to see "Edward Scissorhands" and complained about it because it was too much of a fairytale and didn't address the realities of adoption!
I also find it short-sighted for someone to say this book is full of locker room humor. Clearly, these folks didn't actually read the book. Very little of what is in it could be found in a locker room. However, I can see how people without a sense of humor might be confused. This is no "oh, aren't babies cute, let's learn how they work" kind of book. It's more "damn, babies are hard to raise, but this stuff is funny because I was thinking exactly that".
The bottom line is, if you've had a child and you're a man, you'll enjoy this book. To me, it's more Lewis Black than Adam Corolla, if that helps anyone.
If you're looking for a book that will actually teach you important things about pregnancy, this is probably not your book. If you're looking for something to read when you can't sleep and it's your wife's turn to feed the baby at 3 a.m., then this is your book.
Breathe: A Guy's Guide to Pregnancy I found this book to be tasteless and almost without merit. Books for expectant fathers should have some useful information and advice worked in with the the humor, and I did not find this to be the case with "Breathe." I perused it for perhaps 5 minutes, at which point I decided I could not give it to ANY of my young friends who are expectant fathers. They all have a good sense of humor, but beyond a couple of good giggles, this book has no redeeming positive perspective to lend to a pregnancy.
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