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'); document.write(' '); document.write(''); document.write(''); } else if (!(navigator.appName && navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")>=0 && navigator.appVersion.indexOf("2.")>=0)){ document.write(''); } //--> But in its third decade the book has turned into a publishing conundrum: It is the most popular and widely trusted book in its category and yet is coming under such regular criticism that its authors are revising some of its key tenets. The reaction comes in part from expectant parents who call it a worst-case-scenario handbook. Though many parents swear by it, a startling number protest that, instead of emphasizing the wondrous process of fetal development, the book dwells mostly on complications, including the pedestrian (anemia), the more exotic (''incompetent cervix") and a catalog of horrors at the book's end (''uterine rupture"). Although many doctors and midwives still recommend the book, others tell patients to throw away their copies or simply to read them with skepticism. ''It's too much to process," says Susan Kelley-Moran, a nurse at the Brigham practice, explaining why she tells women to ignore the book. She prefers newer guides that generate less worry. The killer hiccups The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which publishes a competing guide for mothers-to-be, declined to comment officially on What to Expect. But - more available