My New Baby

My daughter particularly enjoys looking at books with pictures but no words right now: I tell the story and we discuss the pictures. She brings me this book and says, "Baby!" She really enjoys pointing to the baby and pointing out other objects in each picture (bunny, ball, snake doll, frog doll, bathtub, duck, etc.) I bought the book even though we don't plan to have a second baby right away, because I really liked how the family is portrayed. Mom nurses the baby on the first page and then is shown nursing again while Dad and the older child make a salad for dinner. Dad is shown changing and dressing the baby on 2 pages, and then takes the baby and older sibling for a walk, wearing the baby rather than using a stroller! This is great for our family since we are committed to breastfeeding and babywearing, so it reflects my daughter's experience. I also like that both the baby and the older child are drawn in a gender-neutral way so you can customize your own story to be about a little boy or a little girl who gets a baby brother or sister, depending on your own family! I highly recommend this board book.

One of the very few books I have ever seen that shows the mom nursing, while the dad changes diapers and the little child (boy I think) helps. Then the dad goes for a walk in the Bjorn, does the cooking, and everyone looks happy, not worried or uncomfortable that a new baby has arrived like other books sometimes portray. TRULY a wonderful book. Great that it doesn't have words, much nicer to make up your own.

We just started to read this book (and a few others on this subject) and this is our 23 mth old's favorite. She wants to read this one and a few other baby related books a few times each day. The book doesn't have any words in it but you'll have no problem talking about what is happening in each of the pages. It's neat to listen to other people's version of the "text".

This book really helped my toddler understand what was going to happen. He was only 23 months when his little sister was born so his language skills weren't very developed. In the last few months of my pregnancy he would look at this book over and over and over again and you could see understanding dawning on his little face. On day, he was "reading" it and then, all of a sudden, dropped it, ran over to me, and gave me a really big hug. I think that was his moment of truth, lol. Two thumbs up!

We loved that this book depicted relationships in a respectful and realistic manner. The older boy helps out Mum and Dad, plays alone with baby, has time playing quietly by himself and at the end of the day when baby is in bed, has some quality time alone with Mum and Dad reading a book. We also liked how Dad is actively involved eg he cooks dinner while Mum nurses baby.Although it had no words, our 1.5 year old twins loved pointing out and naming objects that they knew and of telling us what was happening. For example:"poo" (baby getting nappy/diaper changed) "wah, wah" (baby crying)"shh" (baby sleeping)We got a number of new baby books, some good some not. This is one that we'd recommend.