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Baby book suggestions for 1st timers (or 2nd + timers too!)
I SHOULD have read these before my baby arrived and not afterwards, when I was struggling to survive and had no time or energy to read. But, I did manage to get through these two books and they helped me a lot!
Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp
No Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley
Any other suggestions??
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Re: Baby book suggestions for 1st timers (or 2nd + timers too!)
I'm currently reading Baby 411 after loving their other book "baby bargains"
Im also reading happiest baby on the block too. Glad to hear someone recommending it. :-)
I'm probably the odd one out, but I think all the books I read were ginormous wastes of money. I have gotten more info just looking around on here and on Google than I ever got from a book.
Disclaimer -- I am a FTM, so I can only relay how informative I found these books... none of it is actually applied knowledge yet!
I feel a whole lot more confident about BFing and baby care in general after reading the Womanly art of Breastfeeding. It is really informative about feeding solids as well. I went through Dr. Sear's Vaccine book, and am glad I did b/c now I feel like I have a better grasp on what will happen at those Dr's appointments! He offers pros and cons, as well as a lot of info on what brands of vaccines are available and how they differ. I loved that it was really unbiased. I liked the Happiest Baby, too. The Complete Guide to the Organic Pregnancy was great as it covered the first years as well as pregnancy. Some parts of that book were a little too far over the edge for me, but 80% was super useful information. Welcome to Your Baby's Brain is interesting, too. I am only about 70 pages into that one so far. It is really psychology based.
DH's cousin told me after her baby was born that she had wished she spent more time reading about baby care rather than birth. She read up a lot on birth! I took her advice since birth is only one day, but you have to care for your baby forever
Happiest Baby on the Block is great. They have a video as well that my husband really liked b/c he isn't a big fan of pleasure reading.
Some of the stuff taught in Babywise is dangerous -- it's led to failure to thrive in some infants and the Amer Academy of Pediatrics recommends against that particular book.
Yes, I read Babywise too on a suggestion from an aquaintance. I didn't find much of it helpful, but I did find my first baby (not my second!) was happy to be on a flexible routine during the day and I would nurse her every three hours (like the book suggests). If she wanted it before three hours I would always go with her cues, but she seemed happy on the three hour routine and she slept way better than my second. I don't remember Babywise that much. Why do they recommend against it? Just curious.