I couldn't have done my baby registry without this! She's real good at explaining what's useful and what's not, and what some things are even used for!

I really loved this book for explaining the whole medical side of pregnancy and child birth. A lot of people think the Sears are biased towards natural childbirth. I knew that's what I wanted, so of course I didn't notice; I was just reading what I wanted to hear. I've heard the "Everything Birth Book" is just as informative without the Natural-Birth opinions, although I haven't read it myself.

This is the book that I use to review what I learned in my Bradley classes 3 years ago. It goes over the phases of labor and how to handle each; what to do to try to determine if "this is it" or if you're just having pre-labor pains; doing your kegals; eating right...all the how-tos of preparing for natural childbirth.

I read this book before giving birth as well (can you tell I was anxious to have this baby?!) and again, was glad I read it ahead of time, especially since I was too tired the first few weeks of parenthood to read much of anything. Anyway, I agree with the Sears baby-philosophy described in this book. I feel my kids are such "happy babies" as everyone calls them because of this parenting style.

This was great for all the details about nursing. It has a great description of proper latch-on technique, which really helped me! It also goes through stages of the nursing process and problems you may encounter, with suggested solutions, like how to introduce a bottle, starting solids, etc. DEFINITELY a must-have for all nursing moms!

This is the Baby-Bible as far as I'm concerned. The How-Tos and explantaions cover everything from first baths to potty-training. It's the first place I look for any issues that come up, or even just to check out milestones to look for at different ages.

I've read this several times, and am always keeping the solutions in the back of my mind as new problems emerge. I've never been successful at following through with "the plan" she helps you create, but things always improve a little when I incorporate these ideas and find ones that work for us.

Not so much informative as it is "therapy" for the frazzled new Mom! There's definitely useful information in here, but I found the encouraging tone of the book what made it such a joy to read! (Can you tell I LOVE these Girlfriends' Guides?)

I meant to read this one, but never found the time (can you imagine that?) I still want to; we'll see.

Cute, easy recipes for those who want to cook. I've been very lazy and haven't tried many (I was so motivated when I bought it last year!) but I'm going to try to get back into cooking now that my son is moving on to table food.

We're about 1/2 way through the stages described in this book. I haven't been able to get into the "Toddler-ease", but my daughter's a really easy kid, I think. I HAVE noticed the Fast-food rule (repeat what they say: acknowledge what's going on, basically) works great every time. I think I'll be using this one more with my son, who I can already tell is much more fiesty than my daughter.

I'm still working through this, but have good expectations based on my success with the original No-Cry Sleep Solution book.

I plan to read it very soon. Based on the reviews here on Amazon, it's exactly what I'm looking for.

If you read my comments above, you probably know I should be reading this book! Yes, she's 2 and still nursing, along with her brother, which was not the plan! They say most kids wean themselves around the 6th month of pregnancy; clearly that was not the case with my daughter. Since then it seems like a bad idea: adjusting to the baby, potty-taining, etc. Maybe I should just get pregnant again:)