Diaper Changes and Doctoral Studies: Nora's Favorite Books

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Nora's Favorite Books

For months and months, Nora has been grabbing books and forcing her way into our laps to read. Over the past month or two, though, she has really started participating in the reading experience!

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KatieJuly 26, 2013 at 10:20 AM
Her sheer delight at the crocodile in the first video was awesome!
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The following resources have been helpful to me as I learn to navigate motherhood, so I thought I'd list them here in case they could be of use to anyone else.

Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn: The Complete Edition by Penny Simkin, April Bolding, Ann Keppler and Janelle Durham.

- This book helped me stay one step ahead while I was pregnant, and Penny Simkin's attitude about childbirth really resonated with me.

Baby Bargains by Denise and Allen Fields

-- I don't buy anything for Nora without consulting this book first, and its recommendations have yet to lead me astray.

The Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp (Book and DVD)

-- These strategies helped us survive the first three months with a colicky baby and establish good sleep habits.

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth

-- This book taught me a lot about baby sleep needs, and for us, allowing some crying has helped Nora develop sleep skills and keeps our whole family stay relatively well-rested.

Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers by Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett and Nancy Mohrbacher

-- I read this while pregnant and am absolutely convinced that it helped me and Nora develop a good nursing relationship from the very beginning.

www.kellymom.com

-- A really useful online source for all things breastfeeding-related. The best feature is that it's easily searchable.