congrats on your pregnancy, Beetle!!!
The pregnancy chapter seems to be pretty good (having never been pregnant, tho, I can't look at it and think "yes, that IS good advice when pregnant"). It has tips and info for training/maintaining fitness while pregnant and info for training during each trimester. It also has some post delivery suggestions. Seems good.

If you think you may like it, then I would go ahead and buy it (especially since it's rarely on shelves- didn't even look at where you lived). If you don't like it, then there's always the possibility of giving it to someone you know (we do book/clothing/bike accessory swaps with my friends all the time).

Since you're thinking about the full IM (or it could even be adapted for the half), I would highly recommend the book Going Long by Joel Friel and Gordon Byrn. That book was my bible while training. It's been written and highlighted so much by me it looks like a wreck. So much helpful training advice, and especially nutritional advice (which I really needed help with on those long rides and runs and for race day). That is the BEST book I've found for training. The Woman Triathlete is good, but I don't find there's any diff. in training advice for men and women- especially when going long. If you had to buy one, my bet would be on Going Long over Woman Triathlete just for the extra focus on long distance racing. In Going Long there really aren't programs set up (sample workouts are given, but no long term IM schedule), but the info was easily adapted the the training program I did. I did the one on www.trifuel.com (under training programs, and then under the 36 week Iron distance training program- they also have a half training program, but it's not as detailed and not as helpful-I'd just do the first 20-25 weeks of the full program for a half). I swear by that program and will use it again for my next IM (and it's free- even better). While I wasn't able to complete the workouts in the time they had (I'm thinking it was designed for faster athletes), it did the perfect job of steadily increasing my durations and intensities, while keeping me injury free (my knee is bad and I didn't have a problem during the program).

Again, sorry for being so long-winded.

You swam the English Channel????? WOW!!!! I'm so very impressed! How far of a swim is that? That's just incredible!!!! I'm just amazed at your accomplishment!!!! WoW!!!