Second baby books

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Can anyone recommend any books for integrating a second baby please?
Any ideas that worked also very welcome

TIA

Not specifically baby focused, but Siblings without Rivalry is very good.

Not sure you could get a whole book out of integrating a new baby into the family but I’m sure someone will have! Key things I’d say would be giving the first child as much attention as possible and just make the new baby slot in with your existing routine with the older one. It gets more difficult as they get older and more demanding but at the beginning it can be (depending on the baby I suppose) easy to give the older one most of your mental attention while giving the baby loads of physical attention. The sling is your friend.

A good tip I got from another mum was to make a point of saying to the baby (when the older child is around) things like “You’ll need to wait just a minute, I’m playing with/ speaking to/ helping DC1 just now”.

Make your own book of the "Story of our family" or "Story of baby X". Either use one of those cheap photo printing sites or literally just write or type on bits of paper and then stick in photos or do some very basic drawings. As long as everyone has recognisably the right hair colour/style and a piece of clothing which exists in real life, IME they recognise even the crappiest drawing as them

My DC love to look through it and it really helped since we used the book to explain that I would have to go to hospital and while DH and I were there, he would go and stay with a friend of mine. After DS3 was born, DS2 read the book over and over and said "And I really DID go in the car in my pyjamas in the middle of the night!!"