What are you reading?

boynextdoor1 · August 2010

A peek at my summer reading list. What are you reading to prepare for parenthood? Homebirth in the Hospital Integrating Natural Childbirth with ModernMedicine Kerr, M.D. 2008 Spiritual Midwifery/ 4^th Ed. Ina May Gaskin Guide to Childborth 2003 Ina May Gaskin The Unofficial Guide to Having A Baby/ 2^nd Ed. Ann Douglass and John R. Sussman, M.D. Belly Laughs, Jenny McCarthy 2004 The Thinking Woman?s Guide to a Better Birth Henci Goer 1999 The Business of Being Born Lake, Epstien (documentary film) Raising Baby Green The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care Alan Green, M.D., More than Genes, What Science Can Tell us About Toxic Chemicals, Devekopment, and the Risk to Our Children, Dan Agin The New Mom?s Survival Guide Jenifer Wilder, M.D. The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding your Child Healthy Development From Birth to Adolecence, linda C. Mayers, M.D., J. Comen, M.D., Fathering: Right From the Start Jack Heinwitz Heading Home With Your Newborn, From Birth To Reality laura A Jane, jJnifer Shue The BabyCenter Essential Guide to Your Baby?s First Year Expert Advice and Wisdom from Mom to Mom Let The Baby Drive Navigating the Road of New Motherhood, Lu Hannesian Raising America: Experts, Parents and a Century of Advice About Children Ann Hulbert Secrets of the Baby Whisperer, How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby Tracy Hogg Recommended by Doula, Melissa, From Natural Lullabies Birthing From Within Pam England Husband-Coached Childbirth Dr. Bradley

MrsSarahL · August 2010

I have read or am reading Your Pregnancy Week by Week, Belly Laughs, The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy. I am now looking for newborn or baby books. But I try to break up all the pregnancy reading with some fiction; I am currently reading Atonement.

Mrs.JBowman@gmail.com · August 2010

I'm just reading different fiction books. I personally think it's a bit ridiculous to read so much about baby. Everyone has different opinions and reading all that just gives you too much to think and stress about. I read 1 book with DD and that was just on being pregnant. You are the mom, you will know what is best. While reading is fine if you want to, don't rely on other people to tell you what your child needs.

KatieM1106 · August 2010

I rented "The Happiest Baby on the Block" DVD from Netflix. I think I will check the book out of the library when the time comes closer for LO to arrive.

spursgirl10 · August 2010

I haven't read anything this time around. I'm way too busy with work and my son. The first time I was pregnant I read a ton and all it did was freak me out. I would focus too much on the negative stuff so this pregnancy I decided to not read any books and I have been fine. I do like to go on websites though each week just to see how big she is getting.

Anonymi · August 2010

I'm reading

Ina May Gaskin's Guide to Natural Birth

Hypnobirthing

The Complete Guide on Breast Feeding

and I'm debating starting the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and maybe Birthing The Bradley Way.

Though to the OP, I almost wonder if you are getting a little overboard on your reading. My hypnobirthing book has other supplements with it and is more or less our birthing class since we can't afford a class in our area aside from the hospital class (and I'd like to try med free cause I'm skeptical of pain meds and I want to see what my hormones can really do for me). I could maybe understand if you aren't doing anything else and you read really fast and so you are reading all that to cure boredom but I'm right now a SAHW (not exactly by choice) and even I'm not reading that many books.

LadySmith08 · August 2010

Currently I am reading Eat, Love, Pray. Can't wait to see the movie. With my first I read the happiest baby on the block. I used a lot of info out of the book the first 3 months with DD. Some of the ideas are a little far feteched, but some of the soothing tech really worked for us.

morgansfollower · August 2010

Baby Book- The Happiest Baby on the Block

Enjoyment Book- "Bite Me" Christopher Moore

LadySmith08 · August 2010

Oh and I wouldn't stress trying to read too many birthing books. Births NEVER go as planned. My birth plan was to have the baby. I wanted natural but it came time I would have gladly taken the epi if I had the chance. Everything happend very fast for me and we never even brought our bags into the hospital till after she was born. So all my laboring "things" I had packed was a waste.

princessvespa1 · August 2010

The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo

The Girl Who Played With Fire

The Girl Who Played With the Hornet's Nest

All by Stieg Larsen - so good!

Oh yeah, I'm also reading Pregnancy Week by Week, and I read Belly Laughs in like an hour.

UnexpectedlyMom11 · August 2010

morgansfollower:
Baby Book- The Happiest Baby on the Block
Enjoyment Book- "Bite Me" Christopher Moore

I chistopher moore!

One of the many books I am reading right now is "A Dirty Job"

morgansfollower · August 2010

UnexpectedlyMom11:
morgansfollower:
Baby Book- The Happiest Baby on the Block
Enjoyment Book- "Bite Me" Christopher Moore

I chistopher moore!
One of the many books I am reading right now is "A Dirty Job"

"A Dirty Job" is one of my favorites! "Practical Demonkeeping" by him is the next one i will be starting...probably tomorrow actually. I only have like 20 pages left of "Bite Me"

valeivegas · August 2010

Wow - you've got quite a list! I'm jotting some of these down.. I'm jsut ready the day-by-day pregnancy book & pregnancy journal. But I'm looking for a good fiction book - too much pg info is overwhelming!

jkaplan84 · August 2010

I've been reading the Dr. Sears books:

The Birth Book

The Pregnancy Book

The Baby Book

The Breastfeeding Book

boynextdoor1 · August 2010

Being informed makes you paranoid? Overdoing information? Ridiculous.

The point of gaining knowledge is remove any fear of the unknown. I think we all can agree that there is a lot of mystery surrounding pregnancy and birth. I thought it would be interesting to compare literary notes. Because of the rampant poor spelling among "bumpies", I thought this might be a good topic for the literate and/or educated mommies for a discussion.

Obviously, I'm a reader, and I read non-baby-related books, as well. By reading a variety of books on child birth and infant care, you get a very clear picture that all of the "experts" have conflicting veiws. All child-parent relationships and family situations are diffferent; of course, you have to trust your own instincts.

The book, "Raising America" is a great example of the last 100 years of changing veiws on child care. You're going to hear a lot of ignorant things about any subject; but when you hear a lot of out-dated advice about something as important as child birth and child care, it's helpful to be informed on a wide variety of opinions, so that you can see where bad advice originates, and more importantly, determine bad advice from good.

Evonk27 · August 2010

Wow - that is a list. I read a couple of baby/parenting books in the beginning like From the Hips, Belly Laughs, and I have a book that kinda goes through the various weeks and concepts. However, l have now gone back to my other books. Friday I finished Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris and today or this weekend I am going to purchase a couple more. My wish list includes:

Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

Waxed by Robert Rave

Eat Pray Love

Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl by Tracy Quan

Diary of a Married Call Girl by Tracy Quan

Heart of the Matter by Emily Griffin

Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner

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