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Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven: A Gutsy Guide to Becoming One Hot (and Healthy) Mother! | 
 enlarge | Authors: Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin
Publisher: Running Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 8105
Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 0762431059
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.242
EAN: 9780762431052
ASIN: 0762431059
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Product Description
Skinny Bitch created a movement when it exposed the horrors of the food industry, while inspiring people across the world to stop eating “crap.” Now the “Bitches” are back?this time with a book geared to pregnant women. And just because their audience is in a “delicate condition” doesn’t mean they’ll deliver a gentle message. As they did with Skinny Bitch, Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin expose the truth about the food we eat?with its hormones, chemicals, and other funky stuff. But even though they are “Skinny,” they want women to chow down on the right foods and gain their fair share of weight through their pregnancies. They also won’t mince words on these topics:
• the best foods for a healthy baby and mommy
• the dangers of common lotions, creams, and beauty products that women slather on their bodies (many contain carcinogens)
• why every mother should “suck it up” and breastfeed
• the lowdown on what really happens “post-push” (after birth)
• how the companies we trust don’t care about children (choosing baby food and other products carefully) With the same sassy tone that made Skinny Bitch laugh-out-loud funny, Skinny Bitch: Bun in the Oven will give expectant moms the information they need to “use their head” and have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 If you want to feel bad about yourself, a great read! January 5, 2009
LuLu (New Jersey)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The worst book that I have read in recent years. This dribble was given to me as a Christmas gift as I am expecting my second child. She and I thought that it would be a light hearted book about keeping fit during pregnancy. It is the most depressing book I have ever read. It has very little to do with pregnancy at all. Yes, the authors do warn you that they are not going to hold back, what they are pushing is plain nonsense. I am supporter of Friends of Animals and I do eat mostly Organic but to completely insult a reader who may not have the extra money to buy Organic but who does eat as healthy as possible within her means is down right insane as on page 205 "And don't be a cheap jerk. Buy Organic!" or on the very next page when the authors assault the reader if she doesn't eat organic by equating her with being a bad mother; " So decide right now what kind of mom you want to be. Loving or Lacking" So basically you are a bad mother already. There are far too many negatives to site about this book. One word sums it up for me.. BRUTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 A great investment in your future health & your child's future health & world January 2, 2009
Duffy
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bun In The Oven is chock full of in-your-face honesty and fun foul-mouthed advice that's incredibly smart and ridiculously well-researched, with an amazing amount of footnotes. If you aren't yet vegan, it may be a real test of character to read this while pregnant, but bringing a child into the world is going to be an even bigger test, so suck it up and get real! This book can help strengthen you in mind and health, as it did for me.
Despite the amusing-yet-rude language throughout, the book concludes with grace and enlightenment and a brilliant quote from Gandhi. This has got to be the most impressive Skinny Bitch book released so far. It's also the best pregnancy book I've read thus far, and I've read a metric forktonne of them, from anecdotal advice to midwifery/medical textbooks. This book truly stands out. Planning and acting for health and the betterment of the world for yourself and your children is about as long-sighted and intelligent and serious as you can get... yet with plenty of fun and bitchiness to lighten things up.
Like the original Skinny Bitch book, Bun In The Oven contains impeccably well-researched dietary information (perhaps even more than the original) from the latest and most comprehensive studies to come out of the best institutions and from highly respected researchers, and more generally it's simply great advice on life and living well in the world - for the betterment of animals, people, health, and the environment - with a great overview of breastfeeding and early baby care in addition to being one of the best, most honest, general guides to pregnancy around... And I'd love to see a follow-up book of the same calibre on raising kids/mini-Skinny Bitches!
 Pregnancy book December 24, 2008
Terry South (Maryville, TN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Pregnancy in itself is an event in a womans life that is evaluated differently with each individual.Some women feel beautiful when they are pregnant and others feel like a huge misshapen creature...With that said,pregnancy can be a beautiful experience or it can be a painful experience that will carry on even after the birth of your child. This book will help you know what to eat to have a healthy pregnancy experience and a healthy child,while at the same time give you reassurance with your vision of your body and all the changes that occur during and after pregnancy. This book is very informative and also very well written. I would suggest this book be an addition to all the other goodies one places in the ever popular "BABY BASKET" that so many people including myself bring to the baby showers. I give this book 4 stars,and will be purchasing many for upcoming baby showers.Remember to share the good stuff with expectant mothers too,not just the "up all night "stories.
Self-Righteous, Unhelpful and Mean-Spirited November 30, 2008
Elizabeth Greene
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
I wanted to put this book down after the first few chapters but I stuck it out looking for the good parts. Didn't find them. If you're a vegan and you want to know how to stick to a vegan diet throughout your pregnancy, get a different book. This book has very little information about what food to eat -- just a list of some processed products you'll find in health food store freezers and some menus that sound okay but are impractical for working women. No recipes are provided, either. If you're not a vegan, this book won't convince you. It's full of insults and dire warnings that are likely to anger people who aren't yet receptive to a vegetarian lifestyle, much less a vegan one. I don't think pregnancy is the best time to be trying a vegan diet for the first time, anyway. It's hard enough for one person to learn to eat a whole new way -- and moms are eating for two. Get a book that tells you how to eat a varied, healthy organic diet that emphasizes fresh, whole foods, learn what nutrients are especially important during pregnancy, and don't expose yourself to these miserable women who believe they have all the answers.
Preachers? November 26, 2008
Jane Smith (San Francisco, CA)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I found the book to be horrendously condesending and 'high and mighty'. Although I believe in most of the things that the authors are writing about when it comes to living a vegan lifestyle, it was such a disappointment!
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