 | Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health (Revised Edition) by Toni Weschler
Buy used from: $1.88 This is a must-read for all women. (Helpful when trying to get pregnant.)
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 | Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy by Mayo Clinic
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $7.44 A good overall guide to pregnancy.
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 | The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating During Pregnancy (Harvard Medical School Guides) by W. Allan Walker
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.69 Excellent guide. Clear, thorough, and easy to follow discussion of what and what not to eat. Includes preparing your body for pregnancy. Recipes in back. (Helpful well before getting pregnant).
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 | Butterflies & Hiccups: A Guided Pregnancy Journal by Laurie Wing
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $1.28 A truly wonderful guided journal for pregnancy. You will be so glad you have this. (Nice to have as soon as you find out you are pregnant.)
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 | 40 Weeks +: The Essential Pregnancy Organizer (The Essential Organizers) by Dani Rasmussen
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $15.89 A great organizer. Very well-done. Sections are tabbed, and include spaces to track appointments, checklists of baby items, etc.
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 | Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way: Revised Edition by Susan McCutcheon-Rosegg
Buy new: $13.00 / Used from: $8.97 Even if you don't plan to have a natural childbirth, read this to be well-informed. (Helpful to read sometime during pregnancy.)
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 | The Secret Life of the Unborn Child: How You Can Prepare Your Baby for a Happy, Healthy Life by Thomas Verny
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $2.80 Fun to read during pregnancy.
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 | The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition) by William Sears
Buy new: $14.29 / Used from: $5.98 Wonderful, comprehensive book. (Thumb through this before you have your baby.)
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 | The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding: Seventh Revised Edition (La Leche League International Book) by La Leche League International
Buy new: $13.00 / Used from: $8.00 The ultimate breastfeeding guide. (Thumb through this before you have your baby.)
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 | The Wonder Weeks: How to Turn Your Baby's 8 Great Fussy Phases into Magical Leaps Forward by Hetty Vanderijt
Buy used from: $21.95 This book is a must-have. The developmental checklists and activity ideas are invaluable. Get this book. (Good to have on hand when your baby is born.) Get this book.
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 | Cradle the Thought : A Journal for the New Mother's First Year by Tracy D. Nelson
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $20.10 Wonderful journal for your first year as a mother. You will be so glad you have this. (Nice to have on hand right before your baby is born.)
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 | Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent by Meredith Small
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $2.67 Wonderful look at parenting across cultures. A good introduction to attachment parenting. (Read anytime.)
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 | Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, Revised Edition: Birth to Age 5 (Shelov, Caring for your Baby and Young Child, Birth to Age 5) by American Academy Of Pediatrics
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.33 A good conventional reference. (Helpful to have on hand when your baby is born.)
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 | Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child by Janet Zand
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $3.50 A good reference that includes natural and homeopathic remedies to common childhood ailments in addition to conventional remedies. (Helpful anytime.)
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 | Infant Massage--Revised Edition: A Handbook for Loving Parents by Vimala Schneider McClure
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.01 You and your baby will love this. (Infant massage is good for newborns.)
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 | What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations by Stephanie Cave
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $3.92 Be well-informed. The most well organized and easy to read of the vax books I have read. Offers a great alternate vax schedule the author follows with patients. (Helpful before 2-month shots.)
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 | Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $1.36 Excellent comprehensive reference on sleeping. However, I disagree with the cry-it-out techniques presented in the book. (Helfpul for caring for a newborn.)
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 | Good Nights: The Happy Parents' Guide to the Family Bed (and a Peaceful Night's Sleep!) by Maria Goodavage
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.52 Wonderful book on co-sleeping. (Helpful anytime. Co-sleeping works best if practiced from early infancy, though.)
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 | The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer by Harvey Karp
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.50 Some good ideas for soothing a newborn. The vacuum cleaner? Who knew? (Helpful to have on hand when your baby is born.)
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 | The Discipline Book: How to Have a Better-Behaved Child From Birth to Age Ten by Martha Sears
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.02 Wonderful book for establishing loving, positive discipline with your baby and young child. (Will come in handy for older infant/toddler.)
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 | Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk, New Edition by Linda Acredolo
Buy used from: $0.01 I *highly* recommend signing with your baby. I prefer this method to ASL--the signs are modified to be easier for baby. Signing helps provide a bridge to speech. (Start signing around 6 months.)
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 | Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.45 The only book you'll need for making your own baby food. (Solids are introduced at around 6 months.)
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 | Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three by Paula Polk Lillard
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.11 Good ideas for setting up baby's environment, choosing toys and activities, encouraging indedendence, etc. (Helpful when setting up baby's nursery, and from then on.)
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 | You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do With and For Their Chlldren from Birth to Age Six by Rahima Baldwin Dancy
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.25 Written by a Waldorf educator. Excellent ideas for preparing for baby, discipline, routines, activities, etc. (Helpful anytime.)
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 | What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life by Lise Eliot
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $6.88 Excellent information. A bit lengthy for new parents, but good to have around. (Helpful anytime.)
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