While pregnant, as your tummy expands daily, it can be easy to be caught up reading pregnancy books, those week-by-week books with photos of what’s happening inside and out are especially fun, like Stuart Campbell’s Watch me-- grow! : a unique, 3-dimensional, week-by-week look at baby's behaviour and development in the womb. Many mothers including myself have found Kaz Cooke’s Up the Duff to be a an amusingly entertaining week-by-week read.
It’s hard to go past Dr. Miriam Stoppard’s Having a Baby DVD for a great introductory resource. Grabbing a bundle of parenting magazines is another great way to start your research as they contain articles from pre-conception right through to parenting teenagers and everything in between. Parenting magazines stocked in Burnside Library’s Family Information Zone include: Australian Parents, Practical Parenting, Mother and Baby, Essence: the magazine of the Australian Breastfeeding Association, My Child and Kindred.
Birth: conceiving, nurturing and giving birth to your baby by Catherine Price and Sandra Robinson is the childbirth bible, covering everything from pre-conception to transitioning to parenthood. Both vaginal and cesearean birth, including VBAC (vaginal birth after cesearean) are discussed. The authors also have an excellent companion website at http://www.birth.com.au/. For further reading about both vaginal and cesearean birth try Pelvic Health and Childbirth by Magnus Murphy and Carol L. Wasson.
If preparing for a natural birth is your thing a great resource offering birthing techniques and discussion of natural pain management try Juju Sundin’s Birthskills.
However, don’t forget to read-up about babies as well as pregnancy and birth as there won’t be much time to read up on what to expect re breastfeeding and baby sleep after baby is born! Breastfeeding…naturally published by the Australian Breastfeeding Association is your breastfeeding bible and a hospital bag essential for any breastfeeding trouble-shooting you may encounter. Robin Barker’s Baby Love is another great reference book for early parenthood. Two other great books which are gentle and reassuring reads for new parents are Pinky McKay’s 100 ways to calm the crying and Sleeping like a baby. Pinky McKay is a mother of five, lactation consultant and regular columnist for Practical Parenting magazine. I can safely say Pinky is my favourite parenting writer and now that my own bundle of joy is almost two I’m looking forward to reading her new book Toddler Tactics. Visit Pinky’s website at http://www.pinky-mychild.com/.
It’s hard to go past Dr. Miriam Stoppard’s Having a Baby DVD for a great introductory resource. Grabbing a bundle of parenting magazines is another great way to start your research as they contain articles from pre-conception right through to parenting teenagers and everything in between. Parenting magazines stocked in Burnside Library’s Family Information Zone include: Australian Parents, Practical Parenting, Mother and Baby, Essence: the magazine of the Australian Breastfeeding Association, My Child and Kindred.
Birth: conceiving, nurturing and giving birth to your baby by Catherine Price and Sandra Robinson is the childbirth bible, covering everything from pre-conception to transitioning to parenthood. Both vaginal and cesearean birth, including VBAC (vaginal birth after cesearean) are discussed. The authors also have an excellent companion website at http://www.birth.com.au/. For further reading about both vaginal and cesearean birth try Pelvic Health and Childbirth by Magnus Murphy and Carol L. Wasson.
If preparing for a natural birth is your thing a great resource offering birthing techniques and discussion of natural pain management try Juju Sundin’s Birthskills.
However, don’t forget to read-up about babies as well as pregnancy and birth as there won’t be much time to read up on what to expect re breastfeeding and baby sleep after baby is born! Breastfeeding…naturally published by the Australian Breastfeeding Association is your breastfeeding bible and a hospital bag essential for any breastfeeding trouble-shooting you may encounter. Robin Barker’s Baby Love is another great reference book for early parenthood. Two other great books which are gentle and reassuring reads for new parents are Pinky McKay’s 100 ways to calm the crying and Sleeping like a baby. Pinky McKay is a mother of five, lactation consultant and regular columnist for Practical Parenting magazine. I can safely say Pinky is my favourite parenting writer and now that my own bundle of joy is almost two I’m looking forward to reading her new book Toddler Tactics. Visit Pinky’s website at http://www.pinky-mychild.com/.
