I'm looking for recommendations of books to read. If there is a book you read and got great information from, please share it in the comments. I'm making a list of recommended books to get through before I'm swept up in pregnancy and child raising. I will, of course, write a book review and try to share the 'best' tips out of the books I read here.
Here is a link to my current list of recommendations. It's a google doc.
I am very into researching before getting into this baby-breeding project. I know that every baby and every situation is different and so I am hoping to get a wide enough knowledge base that I have fall back plans.
Some parents have warned me that I am, perhaps, overthinking all this. It has been suggested that I should relax and trust that my 'gut' will tell me the right thing to do. I've heard that all the books in the world won't prepare you, that the information can be wrong, that my baby might be an outlier anyway... well... I still want to read up. I'm an academic at heart. I'm a reader. I'm an inquisitive person. I love to learn.
I know I can't learn all I need to know about breeding a wonderful, thoughtful human just from books but I don't see how they could do any harm.
Which books do YOU recommend?
Just because you can't ever be fully prepared doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare at all.
ReplyDeleteJust because you will still underestimate or read things irrelevant to your future specific situation, doesn't mean there aren't important things out there you should seek out for information and advice.
For example, my daughter threw up in her carseat this weekend and my husband was about to drench it with the garden hose and I stopped him because I'd just read in an article my cousin who works in radiology in the children's wing that you shouldn't get the straps on a carseat wet because it will destroy the fire retardant resign on them and it'll change their ability to function properly in a crash.
Important info? Yes. Potential life threatening mistake? Yes. Can you know everything? No. But why not seek out all knowledge you can since it just might save a child's life.