My New Baby (New Baby Series) | My 22 month old loves this book

My New Baby (New Baby Series) | Pros and Cons

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My New Baby (New B...

	My New Baby (New Baby Series) Child's Play International, 2000 - 14 pages average customer review:based on 70 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

My 22 month old loves this book

We're expecting our 2nd baby (a boy) in 5 weeks and I bought this book for our 22 month old daughter in an attempt to prepare her for what's going to happen. Time will tell (and another review will probably never be written =-)) but so far, she loves this book. It doesn't include any verbage so you can make up the story as you see fit and point out what you want to point out without having to follow someone else's ideas about what it'll be like to have a new baby in the house. She loves the book and she reads it at least a dozen times at each sitting and recites back to herself what I've read to her when she's just looking at it on her own. I think the illustrations were great for telling the story.

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Pros and Cons

Pros:
1) Presents attachment parenting perspectives - mother breastfeeding, father invovled (cooking dinner for nursing Mom and sibling), involved grandparents, baby-wearing by the father, etc.
2) Presents the arrival of the baby as a happy event for the family and older sibling. Other books deal a lot with the sibling being jealous or angry about the new baby and all the things the baby can't do yet. This book avoids those topics so it's perfect if your child is happy or neutral about the new baby. Why introduce those concepts if they don't apply to your child?

Cons:
1) This book has no words - only pictures. While I like the notion of being able to present the "story" in your own way to your child, it would be nice if there were some words for when your tired...ha ha. Maybe just neutral things describing the pictures or something.
2) The pictures in the book are very cluttered and, in my opinion, too busy for a small child. My son (just 2) is a little distracted by all the other stuff in the pictures (toys, et) and sort of hardly notices the baby in the pictures.
3) Oddly, the Mom in the book often is seen headless...lol. Sounds strange, but often only her arms or body are pictured. Kinda strange. Same is true for his version of the book about pregnancy. Just headless Mom with a big bump! Not a big deal though. Just an oddity.
4) The book presents a grandma and grandpa. If your child doesn't have both a grandma and a grandpa (death or divorce), this is a tough one to explain around - this also came up for us in their version of the pregnancy book. Also the grandparents are quite elderly and look nothing like what my child thinks of when he thinks of his grandma.

All in all, it's a fine book. We use it and it has it's place. I love the goal of the book - attachment parenting approach - letting parents present the idea of the baby to the child in their own way. I just think it could have been executed a little better.

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cute book

Cute pictures- but no words- the price was right but next time I will do more research about the book-

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