I recommend this book for anyone thinking about having having a baby or who is pregnant. Sometimes the best way to address tough issues is with humor and this book is hysterical. Jenny hits the nail on the head.

There are some very funny and truthful parts of this book, but I wouldn't really call it revolutionary. Maybe most moms just don't sit around and talk honestly with their friends like I do. Not everyone will appreciate her humor or agree with some of her parenting choices. I was unimpressed with the chapter on breastfeeding. It came off as ill-informed and defensive rather than comical. But that's okay, to each her own. Overall McCarthy has a funny and self-deprecating way of writing that makes this very readable. If you're looking for light reading and some fun, this could be a good book for you. I'd recommend checking it out from the library or borrowing it from a friend though.

I bought this book for a funny and insightful look at what the first year may bring. I couldn't put it down once I started reading it and laughed myself into tears. It was a insightful and humorus look at what it might be like. It did not convince me to get pregnant but I am thinking about it and now have a better idea of what I'm in for.

I have to say that I have never been a huge Jenny McCarthy fan and I'm still not, however, this book is hilarious! I haven't read "Belly Laughs" yet but it's on my list. I read "Baby Laughs" in a couple of hours because I couldn't put it down. I don't think she was in any way cruel about the things she said about her son, they were true. Any mom can tell you that a newborn baby is nothing more than blob that you feel the need to look at 24 hours a day but really doesn't do anything extraordinary (to other people anyway) for a while. She nailed it pretty close. I gave it a 4 because I found a couple of sections not so funny.

I am a mother of 3 (2 being the youngest) and even though I'm removed from the first year of mommyhood, I still remember it well. I couldn't contain my laughter during the part of "using the toilet" after the birth. I remember being scared to death of that particular experience myself. I'm not big on "bathroom humor" but I have to admit, this time, it was freaking hilarious. I had to put the book down for a couple of minutes to regain my composure and begin breathing again. My husband and teenaged son looked at me like I had completely gone off the deep end.

I am glad to know that there is at least one celebrity out there that is actually "hands on" in the parenting process and also one who is okay with telling the world she didn't shave her pits and had a cottage cheese butt. It's great knowing these things are not only horrors of the not-so-famous moms out here in the real world.