How to Get (All of You) Through Your Baby's First Year
by John Pfeiffer
Conversational, quick-reading and aimed at first-year survival, this book reads like a hands-on primer from a frank, often humorous dad. It delivers practical, scenario-based tips for night feedings, pediatric visits, returning to work and managing partner intimacy, which can calm anxious newcomers. Limitations: the tone leans colloquial and masculine, anecdotes sometimes repeat, and complex situations (single parenting, medically complicated infants) get lighter treatment. It also lacks structured exercises; better as a dip-in reference than a step-by-step training manual.
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Your guide to living with your new family!Pregnancy was just the warmup. Now, it's time to get into the game and help your family through your baby's first year.From 4 A.M. feedings and visiting the pediatrician to getting back to work and hopping into bed with Mom, Dude, You're a Dad leads you through all the trials and tribulations you'll face as...
Difficulty:hard
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Consider All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior.
“Jennifer Senior turns the usual parenting question around by asking what children do to parents’ time, priorities and identity, using reported anecdotes, interviews and snapshots of social data. The book reads like longform magazine journalism: conversational, observant and full of concrete family scenes that name common frustrations and small pleasures. Its strength is the language it gives to everyday limitations; its limit is repetition and occasional stretches of research-summary that slow the narrative for readers seeking a brisk how-to.”
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