So true - Rated 
I loved this book. For me it was a revelation to find someone who has recorded so many of the complex emotions that pregnancy and motherhood brought forth within me. Anne Enright writes of the daily contrast between the raw joy and delight that your children can bring you accompanied by the sheer frustation and boredom that you can also experience, often within the same hour. It is brilliantly written and has a honesty and candour that mark it apart. I bought a copy for two of my friends as soon as I finished it.
Just read it! - Rated
The best, honestly the *best* book on motherhood and pregnancy I've ever read. It's a remarkable, lucid account of what it is to be 'taken over' by this inexcorable state of mind and body, and the unthought-of pleasures and new anxieties that accompany a first child. It's certainly not a practical guide to being pregnant and having a child (there seems to be a misunderstanding about this, which accounts for the two negative reviews - do people not read blurbs or flick through a book before buying it? Odd) but I'd still recommend it to anyone pregnant for the first time, or finding themselves with a new baby and unprepared for the emotional turmoil that this brings.
An author I could really relate to - Rated
This is the best book Ive read about pregnancy and motherhood. I liked the "dispatches from the front line" style, giving the sense of how disjointed life becomes when you have a new baby. I was really able to relate to the author and often found myself nodding in agreement with her sentiments. I often feel like I am inhabited by a little stranger, an alien. I found this book to be a great antidote to both the pink and fluffy "mother hood is amazing" and to the "warts and bodily fluids" humourous books out there. I felt that her writing was beautiful, sparse and clear, yet with warm humour. Some images were so vivid. I would reccomend this book to you if you have had enough of the Pink and Fluffy pregnancy books, or, if like me, you arent madly maternal. Its definetly a book I'll read and enjoy again
Not all that great- and some passages offensive. - Rated 
I didn't really enjoy the book. I just couldn't find a connection with the author and I found the narrative jumped around too much.
There is a paragraph about another pregnant lady who happens to be "fat" and the author expresses that she "hates her" and that this woman is "weakness in the room".
Fair enough, that's the authors opinion, but I didn't like it and it spoiled the book for me.
Fantastic - Rated
"Making Babies" is a brilliant antidote to the pastel-coloured, cheery-cutesy fodder that proliferates everywhere an expectant mother looks. I can't recommend it enough as a seriously intelligent, thoughtful, vivid and very funny exploration of the mental and physical highs and lows that the "Pregnancy for Dummies"-style books never even approach.
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