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The Expectant Parent: A Journey
It may be a stretch to fit these books into our Set Sail for Summer Reading travel category, but being an expectant parent is clearly an adventure! Some of the books that I've found informative or entertaining on my own prenatal journey include:
You having a baby : the owner's manual to a happy and healthy pregnancy by Michael F. Roizen, and Mehmet C. Oz
The modern girl's guide to motherhood by Jane Buckingham with Jen Furmaniak
The Penguin book of baby names by David Pickering
Easy labor : every woman's guide to choosing less pain and more joy during childbirth by William Camann and Kathryn Alexander
Crouching father, hidden toddler : a zen guide for new dads by C.W. Nevius
Confessions of a slacker mom by Muffy Mead-Ferro
The essential first year by Penelope Leach
Free range kids : giving our children the freedom we had without going nuts with worry by Lenore Skenazy
Motherhood, the second oldest profession by Erma Bombeck