We're looking to create the Baby Bunching book guide. This includes all books that you found helpful as a Baby Buncher with topics including: sleep, food, behavior, sibling or just plain funny ones that we all should be reading. Post your favorites here in the comments, and we'll compile them into a list similar to the Baby Bunching Double Stroller Guide.
Here are a few of our all-time favorites (more to come):
Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy, Girlfriend's Guide to the First Year and Girlfriend's Guide to Toddlerhood
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
Send us your favorites (and please include why or a story) and we'll have the list ready for your after-Christmas gift card spending spree.
http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Sleep-Habits-Happy-Child/dp/0449004023
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I liked the baby whisperer. i just thought they both gave good ways to get your children to sleep or to understand what they needed.
Posted by: feener | Dec 30, 2008 at 05:31 PM
We used Becoming Baby Wise (http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Baby-Wise-Reference-Worldwide/dp/0971453209) for sleep training the kids. It's basically a cry it out book and it worked really well with my oldest. My second never needed it since she's always been a good sleeper.
Posted by: Casey | Dec 30, 2008 at 08:18 PM
Happiest Baby on The Block
This book saved my sanity with the second baby. Swaddle!
Posted by: Ellen B | Dec 30, 2008 at 10:02 PM
OMG my fav are
Chardonnay is not for sippy cups,
Naptime is the New Happy Hour
and the Three Martini Playdate.
Sometimes you have to look at the funny-crappy side of parenting and not take yourself so seriously.
Posted by: Karen Rodriguez | Dec 30, 2008 at 10:13 PM
She's Gonna Blow!: Real Help for Moms Dealing With Anger
Down Came the Rain : My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom
Confessions of a Slacker Mom
I did read Becoming Baby Wise with my first 2 kids, it helped (some things I don't agree with in the book but the sleep/eat schedule worked for us).
Baby Whisperer
What Every Mom Needs
Real Moms
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
I'm probably being way too...something in my book selection but these are the books that have helped me! I've found with having the kids that a lot of my issues have gotten worst and so it helps me to read about them and try to find ways to resolve my struggles etc. Hope that makes sense.
When I read these particular books (or book like them that I can't recall the names of right now...hell a lot has happened in the last 4 years!) I find that they help just to remind me that having kids is difficult and painful at times. And so they bring me back to reality and help me to realize I'm not alone. Oh yeah the laughter...thats the best part they often make me laugh-I need that. Well not all of them but you get the picture.
Posted by: Beth | Dec 31, 2008 at 01:03 AM
Happiest Baby on the Block is amazing!!! The DVD is even better (see if your library has it!!!
We also enjoyed Babywise. I'm eager to read some of these other ones moms mentioned!!!
Posted by: Kristi | Dec 31, 2008 at 02:40 PM
I've never even heard of the term "baby bunching" until now! And I could have used this website years ago with my first 2, who are 17.5 months apart (yes that .5 DOES make a difference at that age!). Thank you for putting this here, I am looking forward to commiserating with other baby bunchers, even though my "babies" are older now, at 11,10 and 5! :)
Posted by: Carrie | Dec 31, 2008 at 03:54 PM
"The Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy"
"The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding" for the how-to aspects, though I disagree with their attachment parenting philosophy.
"Your One-Year-Old: Fun-Loving and Fussy" by Louise Bates Ames has been the only book I've read that adequately predicted and explained the rough, tantrum-y period between 15 and 18 months and how it would get better by 21 months. This is the first book of a series that goes all the way to age 9.
"The No-Cry Sleep Solution" by Elizabeth Pantley has lots of different ideas so that everyone will find something that works for their family.
and I second Babywise for the eat/waketime/sleep system of structuring baby's day.
Posted by: Jenny P | Jan 01, 2009 at 11:02 PM
I love "siblings without rivalry"
http://www.amazon.com/Siblings-Without-Rivalry-Children-Together/dp/0380799006/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231193767&sr=8-1
and its parent book, "how to talk so kids will listen"
http://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Kids-Will-Listen/dp/0380811960/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231193767&sr=8-2
And also the amazing Ina may's guide to childbirth
http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1231193829/ref=a9_sc_1?ie=UTF8&search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=in%20may%27s%20guide%20to%20childbirth
I have to admit I really don't like those 'girlfriend guide books", I find them flippant and patronizing! But I do love 'the three martini playdate'.
Posted by: geekymummy | Jan 05, 2009 at 05:18 PM