Lennart Nilsson and Lars Hamberger - A Child Is Born

Pros: Amazing photography; Detailed weekly info on babies' development inutero; Educating; Beautiful; Beyond any other images of inutero babies that I have ever seen;
Cons: Book will eventually wear out long before you are done using it (you'll use it forever);

Lennart Nilsson's amazing photography of life in the womb is gathered together into this book to help anyone understand the miracle of life. Unlike other books about pregnancy, this book deals with the child's development rather than the mother's, and...

Pros: Beautiful photography, informative text.
Cons: Not a lot of pictures covering the period after 16 weeks!

Imagine being able to see your unborn baby, not in a black and white one-dimensional ultrasound picture. In brilliant, full color, lifelike photographs. This book is the next best thing!

Lennart Nilsson is the Photographic wizard behind this...

Pros: Lots of great pictures, simple easy to understand language.
Cons: A little out of date

This was the first book I went out and bought when I found myself unexpectedly pregnant.

The book is laid out like a junior high textbook, with lots of pictures and simple language to describe even the most scientific things. The book takes...

Pros: great pictures
Cons: none that I can think of

If you want to know what the baby growing inside of you looks like, this is the book for you. A Child is Born has been a part of our pregnancy library since we were pregnant with our first child. My husband and I followed the growth of our baby through...