Books

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So what pregnancy/parenting books you been reading?

I'm reading the big old DK 365 day guide to pregnancy which is helpful.

Expecting Better by Emily Oster which provided some interesting information but she annoyed me somewhat. It's as if her while life revolves around being an economist and she seemed to find stats to back her own ideas up rather than being completely unbiased. And she comes across as rather full of herself. Worse in Cribnotes.

Hypnobirthing by Holly de Cruz. Found the information very repetitive and mostly useless.

The Positive Birthing Book by Milli Hill. Currently the most useful book of the lot. Tells you a lot about labour, gives other people's experiences, is very personable and lots of good information.

And currently reading The Book You Wish Your parents Had Read (and your children will be glad you did) by Philip a Perry which is quite good so far. More aimed at Parenthood thank pregnancy of course.

As a ftm i think I'll take quite a bit from it though.

Oops how did i post this twice?

I've read what to expect when you're expecting and expecting better.

What to expect was a bit old fashioned but put my mind at rest about a lot of symptoms I didn't know about and suffered with but were all normal.

I'm 28 weeks now and starting to think about ordering ones about actually looking after the baby rather than pregnancy. I got Jo Frosts confident baby care which was good and easy to read.

The Siobhan Miller hypnobirthing book was really good. It didn't feel preachy and was clear that a lot of the techniques would be useful for non-straightforward births too

I've also read the Positive Breastfeeding Book and of the three connected to the same series, that one did start to grate on me a bit. I think it's still useful (I'm open minded about whether we will breastfeed or not) but it was a bit preachy in places despite outwardly saying in it that it wasn't!

Agree about the Milli Hill book but I liked Emily Oster too (as a scientist, looking at the studies behind the advice appealled to me).