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Lucky apple 
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Posted: 17 June 2010 at 7:05pm |
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Ok...so, having little moments of freaking out that I won't know what to do when this bubba comes out!!!
So - to equip myself with advice (for when the net is down and I can't ask here...!) ...
What books have people found useful?
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JoJames
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Posted: 17 June 2010 at 7:15pm |
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Secrets of the baby whisperer by Tracey Hogg I'm currently reading and finding quite good, she has a basic feed play sleep routine which is good. Just take all books with a grain of salt as all baby's are individuals and don't necessarily conform to what the authors think.
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Posted: 17 June 2010 at 7:22pm |
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I love Jo Frosts - Confident Baby Care. It had info on all things baby related and also suggested "things" to do with bubs. Its broken into 0-3 months, 3-6 months etc and even has a great section on formula should you need to go down that track as that info is not easy to find esp when you are stressed and upset anyway.
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Posted: 17 June 2010 at 8:35pm |
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I second the baby whisperer. I often referred to it when Cooper was a newborn as it had some handy stuff about different cries and little things they do and what they probably meant eg things for hunger, wind, tired etc..
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Posted: 17 June 2010 at 8:59pm |
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I found Save Our Sleep was great. I didn't follow the routines to the letter, but it gave me a few good ideas and a general plan to follow which I thought was awesome considering I didn't know the first thing about babies before we had ours. The thing I found particularly valuable was an idea of how long I should expect Alex to be awake before I needed to put him back to bed. It's a seriously small amount of time at first!
Have you read all the info on the Sleep Store website? They have fabulous information available.
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Posted: 17 June 2010 at 11:02pm |
OhBaby!   It comes in handy at all times of the day and night!!
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Posted: 18 June 2010 at 8:21am |
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Ohbaby! by Kathy Fray is really good too! I found since it wasn't just about feeding or sleeping it was really helpful.
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Posted: 18 June 2010 at 8:24am |
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I liked OhBaby too!
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Posted: 18 June 2010 at 2:28pm |
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Can I just say that whatever you do read (and I agree with all above mentioned books, I was a book worm before DS), read with a grain of salt. Meaning when bubs comes try not to worry about what you've read. I only say that becasue so often people read then they form these big expectations of what they "should" be doing with the wee one when really what works for them should be all they need to worry about.
Enjoy your reading.
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Posted: 18 June 2010 at 2:53pm |
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You will find a lot of contradicting advice with books... One book will say do this and another will say never do that do this!
I found the OhBaby one great, although only really skimmed through it.
Oh and the 'for Dummies series' they have a few on it as well with tonnes of tips and what not.
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Posted: 18 June 2010 at 3:02pm |
I agree about the contradictory advice in books - they can cause a lot of stress. I personally found Save Our Sleep the most useful book, but in terms of advice you can't beat this forum - lots of 'real' advice from caring mums who have been there
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Posted: 18 June 2010 at 4:02pm |
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Understanding Your Crying Baby by Sheila Kitzinger and The No Cry Sleep Solution and anything by Dr Sears...........but I am not big on the Tizzie Halls, Gina Ford's, and Tracey Hoggs of the world because IMO they create really unrealistic expectations about babies, especially newborns, and new parents tend to think they are doing things 'wrong' or that there is something wrong with their baby because it doesn't do what they say it should.
In the end, with DS2 we did alot of things on instinct, not on what a book said, and found that it meant we were relatively calm and stress free.....well as much as you can be with a newborn baby.
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Posted: 18 June 2010 at 5:14pm |
I would highly recommend Dance with me in the Heart by Pennie Brownlee. This book was given to me by my MIL and I loved it  A beautiful book about infant-parent partnerships, goes from pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding to babies and toddlers.
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Posted: 19 June 2010 at 6:39pm |
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Oh Baby, Baby Whisperer and Up the Duff were my favs.
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Posted: 19 June 2010 at 8:06pm |
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I liked the 'Attack of the fifty-foot hormones' but it's pregnancy not post...
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Posted: 22 June 2010 at 3:31pm |
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Oh Baby by Kathy Fray and Kid Wrangling by Kaz Cooke!
I also have Gina Ford's sleep book which was good BUT have to take everything with a grain of salt and have never followed her routines to the letter.
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Posted: 22 June 2010 at 3:42pm |
Dance with me in the Heart by Pennie Brownlee.
It's about building child-parent partnerships. A very beautiful philosophy that I swear by.
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Posted: 23 June 2010 at 6:20pm |
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I agree with mumtooboys, nuts_nats and and Mum2Mac! I wouldn't touch Gina Ford, Baby Whisperer, Jo Frost etc. with a barge pole. Dr Sears is fantastic, and Elizabeth Pantley has some EXCELLENT books on sleeping and discipline. Wish I had read her No Cry Sleep Solution before bubba was born!!
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