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| Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth About the First Year of Mommyhood | 
 enlarge | Author: Jenny Mccarthy
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  110 reviews
Sales Rank: 3609
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0452287197
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780452287198
ASIN: 0452287197
Publication Date: April 4, 2006
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Product Description
Jenny McCarthys hilarious, no-holds-barred personality has made her an instantly recognizable TV personality and a bestselling author. In Baby Laughs she examines the full range of challenges that new mothers face, including:
The humiliations of postnatal numbing spray, Tucks medicated pads, and adult diapers; jelly belly, balding, and gum disease; and becoming a five-foot puke rag for the baby
Heart-stopping terrors, such as baby manicures, breathing checks, and burp failures
Inadequacies, such as lullaby illiteracy and the need for a heavy rotation of toys, videos, and mobiles
Daddy antics, such as infant wrestling, home-movie mania, sleeping like a log, and expecting sex
Dueling grandmas, germ-ridden guests, Olympic-class competitive mommies, anorexic pets and much more. Mothers and fathers will find much-needed relief and insight in this sometimes touching, sometimes gritty, but always perceptive and outrageously funny account of what it truly means to have your very own small bundle of joy.
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 Not For Ladies, But Great For Women May 3, 2005
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
McCarthy's rude, raw personality comes shining through in this hilarious book that takes no prisoners in all of the difficult, awkward and downright ugly passages of motherhood. Bad language, bodily functions--there's lots to offend, but McCarthy obviously delights in being a mother, which makes the story all the more charming. She's not the most brilliant writer, but she's brutally honest. That's why I also recommend the funniest and most honest book about parenting written by a man, "I Sleep At Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets," by Bruce Stockler, which tells it like it is about everything, including marriage.
 Cheap Shots from C-List "Celebrity" Mom May 24, 2005
20 out of 38 found this review helpful
This is by far the worst piece of writing, if you can call it that, I've read in years. Thinking that I might be able to identify with McCarthy and laugh a bit,my dear husband bought this as one of my gifts for my very first Mother's Day. I wish he hadn't. Honestly, I would have preferred a DVD of South Park episodes; at least they can cover crude middle school topics of snot, scabs, sex, anal issues, genitalia, blood, fat, feces, ignorance, and marital problems with ACTUAL humor.
Her lack of understanding of basic biology was offensive, her poor parenting was ineffectively glossed over with an attempt at humor, and her superficial motives in nearly every chapter caused further revulsion. To make things worse, at the end of chapters filled with remarkably bad decisions or opinions, she attempts to brighten things up with saccharine advice or warnings. These come across sounding like the airhead across the bar who has a moment of deep thought before ordering another shot of Butterscotch Schnapps.
Let me provide you with an example of such advice from page 89. "So, now you know that if it takes a long time for you to get it ON (her emphasis), don't worry cuz (her spelling)if this horndog eventually found delight in a boner, you will too. RUFF RUFF! (her word choice)"
Where was her editor? Who let her publish this without a ghost writer!? Why doesn't she use real words? One might ask, if it was so terrible, why I read the whole thing. It read like a bad movie, I kept telling myself that it HAD TO get better any minute. It didn't. I did laugh from time to time at how BAD this book was, maybe that counts for something.
Would I buy this for a mom-to-be or a current mother? NO! Save your money and watch bad cable instead; you might laugh more.
Don't take so seriously June 21, 2005
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
She's a comedian and writes like one. The negative reviews seem to take it too seriously. She never claims to be a baby expert, so you shouldn't treat this book as "how to" for babies. I also read her first book and I was laughing most of the time while reading both. I kept having to read parts to my husband because he would be looking at me weird! I recommend both books to all my friends.
Waste of time! June 30, 2005
16 out of 35 found this review helpful
Yes, I am aware that Jenny McCarthy is not a baby expert. I thought reading this book would be at least amusing, unfortunately it does not even have that. This book would have been better titled, "What I heard from my friends about parenting." Several times in the book she mentions certain woes of the first year such as colic and breastfeeding and then says she did not actually go through them herself but she heard alot about it from her friends! Don't waste your money on this tiny little book. If you must read it for whatever reason, check it out at the library as I did and don't expect to gain any new insight on parenting from this book. Jenny McCarthy is obviously just trying to capitalize on her B-status celebrity by throwing together a stupid book that she did no research on and expecting the public to buy it. Don't!
Jenny has done it again!! April 28, 2005
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
After reading Belly laughs I couldn't wait for this one to come out. Jenny did it again with a funny look at life after giving birth! I read this cover to cover in 1 night. This is a great book for expecting and new moms as well as moms with older kids who can look back and laugh at all they've survived!
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