 | What to Expect When You're Expecting, Third Edition by Heidi Murkoff
Buy used from: $0.01 Standard starting place.
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 | Your Pregnancy Week By Week 4th Edition (Your Pregnancy Series) by Glade Curtis
Buy used from: $0.01 Easy to read format.
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 | The Unofficial Guide to Having a Baby by Ann Douglas
Buy used from: $0.01 Information you won't find in other books, like what OTC and prescription drugs are okay to take during pregnancy. Skip the chapters about every possible birth defect, too worrisome.
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 | The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy: Or everything your doctor won't tell you by Vicki Iovine
Buy used from: $0.01 The quintessential guide to changes other than the ones going on in your belly. Getting a little dated, but still fun and uplifting.
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 | The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips and Advice for Dads-to-Be, Second Edition by Armin A. Brott
Buy new: $8.60 / Used from: $0.01 Here's one from the guy's point-of-view.
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 | A Child is Born by Lennart Nilsson
Buy used from: $0.01 Skip the 3D ultrasound, read this instead.
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 | Baby Bargains: Secrets to Saving 20% to 50% on Baby Furniture, Equipment, Clothes, Toys, Maternity Wear and Much, Much More! by Denise Fields
Buy used from: $0.01 Good evaluations on everything from strollers to baby food.
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 | Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5
Buy used from: $0.01 Official guide from the American Academy of Pediatrics. A little dry and clinical, but here's a good mainstream source of information.
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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 The all-purpose guide to baby care from the guru of attachment parenting. Good info on breastfeeding and nutrition.
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 | What to Expect the First Year, Second Ed by Heidi Murkoff
Buy used from: $0.01 Similar to the pregnancy book. Easy format... don't compare your baby to the milestones too much.
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 | The Nursing Mother's Companion by Kathleen Huggins
Buy used from: $0.01 Pretty much the official guide to breastfeeding.
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 | The Fussy Baby Book : Parenting Your High-Need Child From Birth to Age Five by William Sears
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $2.85 Some of the same info from The Baby Book, but still good stuff.
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 | Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott
Buy used from: $0.01 Brutally honest look at new motherhood.
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 | Planet Parenthood: The Funny, Helpful, Absolutely Essential Survivor's Guide to a Strange New World by Julie Tilsner
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Humorous look at early parenthood.
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 | The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood by Vicki Iovine
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 More of Vicki Iovine's chatty, girls-only talk.
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 | Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense by Ellyn Satter
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.80 Philosophical advice on everything from breast or bottle to chicken nuggets.
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 | First Meals by Annabel Karmel
Buy used from: $0.01 Very explicit recipes for baby food.
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 | Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.24 Alternative guide to healthy baby food. Good ideas, but take this one with a grain of salt!
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 | I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 A Novel. Working mom juggles a career as investment banker and two young children.
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 | Amanda Bright@home by Danielle Crittenden
Buy used from: $0.01 The stay-at-home corollary to the above novel.
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