What to Expect When Your Wife is Expanding: A Reassuring Month-by-Month Guide for the Father-to-Be, Whether He Wants Advice or Not

Written by Thomas Hill

Narrated by Robert McCollum

In this classic parody, Thomas Hill presents the testosterone-inspired answer to the best-seller What to Expect When You're Expecting.

The third edition of the best, funniest father's guide to having a baby, What to Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding, is now thoroughly revised and updated, but it's still packed with information, advice, and attitude - distinctively for guys. Originally conceived as a little parody, just something funny and helpful for the expectant man, the audio-book is now a classic gift, passed knowingly from one generation of first-time papas to the next.

With this lighthearted month-by-month instruction manual on the care and nurture of a pregnant wife - the main role of expectant dads - he'll handle all the important milestones and topics: what not to say during the three phases of labor, what to buy, how many and when, maintaining work-life balance, and maintaining work-life-wife balance.

New features in What to Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding include:

• The minefield: the wrong gifts for your pregnant wife.


• Social media pregnancy etiquette: status update!


• Eight reasons why not to pick out maternity clothes.

What to Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding also features the latest trends!

• Festive gender-reveal parties (really!)


• Updated baby name guide, including Twitter hashtags.


• Cloth diapers: the debate is back!

An Author's Republic audio production.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Novel Audio
• Release date: Aug 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781518964732

Thomas Hill

Dr. Thomas Hill is Senior Director for Advanced Analytics (Statistica products) in the TIBCO Analytics group. He previously held positions as Executive Director for Analytics at Statistica, within Quest's and at Dell's Information Management Group. He was a Co-founder and Senior Vice President for Analytic Solutions for over 20 years at StatSoft Inc. until the acquisition by Dell in 2014. At StatSoft, he was responsible for building out Statistica into a leading analytics platform. Dr. Hill received his Vordiplom in psychology from Kiel University in Germany, earned an M.S. in industrial psychology and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Kansas. He was on the faculty of the University of Tulsa from 1984 to 2009, where he conducted research in cognitive science and taught data analysis and data mining courses. He has received numerous academic grants and awards from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, the Center for Innovation Management, the Electric Power Research Institute, and other institutions. Over the past 20 years, his team has completed diverse consulting projects with companies from practically all industries in the United States and internationally on identifying and refining effective data mining and predictive modeling / analytics solutions for diverse applications. Dr. Hill has published widely on innovative applications for data mining and predictive analytics. He is the author (with Paul Lewicki, 2005) of Statistics: Methods and Applications, the Electronic Statistics Textbook (a popular on-line resource on statistics and data mining), a co-author of Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-Structured Text Data Applications (2012) and Practical Predictive Analytics and Decisioning Systems for Medicine (2014); he is also a contributing author to the popular Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications (2009). Dr. Hill also authored numerous patents related to data science, Machine Learning, and specialized applications of of analytics to various domains.

Reviews for What to Expect When Your Wife is Expanding

[Nuno Saraiva · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Probably the worst book ever . I have no words to describe how ridiculous all the comments on the book are.