Welcome to my birth and postpartum guide, item #7. Congrats on the upcoming addition to your family! Please take care of yourself and best of luck with your preparations. This is one piece of a 10-part guide. Feel free to explore the other pieces from the introduction page.

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Before baby arrives:

• Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong–and What You Really Need to Know 
• Be Prepared: A Practical Handbook for New Dads
• The Anthropology of Childhood:  Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings: (this is a TEXTbook, so order only on Kindle) but it is great at providing perspective about what infant and childhood looks like around the world — are you and kiddo still alive at the end of the day — Congrats! Gold star day for you! 🙂

For just-in-time training as baby grows:

• Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
• The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity, and Success After Baby
• Wonder Weeks: How to stimulate the most important developmental weeks in your baby’s first 20 months and turn these 10 predictable, great, fussy phases into magical leaps forward.  (Also a helpful app for understanding your kiddo’s developmental phases)
• Touchpoints-Birth to Three

(A note about these last two is that I do think these are some of the best in their class — but you will still have to get over a slightly sexist and condescending tone.)