This book answers all the common pregnancy, birth and newborn questions... Thought-provoking and never boring, I loved it.

Finally! A book on pregnancy, birth and babies that cuts through the myths, side-steps preachy prescriptions, and turns to the evidence. Bumpology transforms common parental anxieties into fuel for a fascinating journey through the science of the bump.

This lovely book tackles everything you'd want to know. It also provides lots of solid evidence in the form of studies and expert advice. Easy to read... I'll definitely be keeping it on my coffee table to flick through during my nine months.

The book is refreshingly frank and often funny. It also benefits from Geddes' constructive outrage over the misinformation and sensationalism that she says plague much of the writing about the subject.

Linda Geddes is not afraid to ask anyone about anything! From the stream of contradictory advice to pregnant women and new parents to those little moments of wonder, Geddes digs into all of them, looking for the evidence and exploring the science. In this book she shares what she's found, with the straightforward answers and easy-going humour that is so welcome in early parenthood. Don't get pregnant without it!

What a BRILLIANT book! The antidote to anecdote, a great survey of current evidence. Just what the midwife ordered!

[Bumpology] answers the questions that tantalise every mother

[Geddes] combines scientific research with a light and humorous tone to answer burning questions

Unputdownable

I LOVED Dear Thing. A fantastic level of tension and emotion.

Massive and freewheeling as well as tight, acutely observed, moving and very funny ... deeply satisfying

Hot Things to Do Now - funny, squirm-inducing

Witty and perceptive