Need Some Book Ideas for Second Baby Coming!!!

I got the book "Hello Baby" by Lizzy Rockwell at Borders when I was expecting my 2nd, and my daughter (even though it's an older brother and new baby girl) loved it. It starts off with a trip to the doctor, listening to the baby's heartbeat, even has a chart showing what the baby looks like at different stages of pregnancy, and goes all the way to bringing the baby home and bathing, dressing, and breastfeeding her. My daughter still asks to read this book, nearly a year after her brother was born. Congratulations and good luck!

http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Baby-Lizzy-Rockwell/dp/051780...

Congratulations on your pregnancy! We also read Joanna Cole's I'm a Big Brother over and over and over before our second was born. While I didn't have a book dealing with nursing the new baby, the lactation consulatant at the hospital gave my oldest a coloring book on the subject. Perhaps you could check with La Leche League to see if they have any books or material. The lactation consultant's advice to me was to tell my oldest that I am feeding the baby, just like I did with him when he was a baby and to ask him "do you remember when mommy fed you like this?". She said if you say that enough they will think they remember even if they don't. My oldest never had an issue with me feeding the baby and sometimes would go and get a stuffed animal to "nurse" while I nursed his little brother. I also set aside one feeding a day to have my oldest get a pile of books and come sit with me and, while I nursed I read as many books as he wanted. Best of luck!

There is one with the Berenstein Bears that I used with my daughter. "Brother" bear was becoming a big brother. It puts things in a fun understandable way for them. I need to dig it out but don't know the name right now. I would go to a big book store and ask for childrens books about becoming a big brother. I found ths one in Borders I think. Congratulations! I will also have a 3 yo when baby #3 is born. My oldest is 8yo and she figures she is old school now with having the other sister. ;) A.

The best book I found when expecting #2 was "Mommy, Daddy, Baby & Me" by Lisa Gewing. I was specifically looking for one with some refference to breastfeeding, which I quickly found out is very rare! My son was only 20 months when his sister was born, so this book doesn't go into any detailed explainations, but is a nice reassuring book that there are a lot of changes with a new baby in the house and always enough love to go around.

Congratulations and God Bless!

Hi! I don't know how close you are to a Barnes & Noble but they have tons of books that are age appropriate for your son. I think they have a book called "what's in mommy's belly?" It just gives an insight at a kids perspective. I know when I was pregnant with all 3 children I read "What to Expect When Your Expecting". I do believe that has some ideas as well. When I was breastfeeding my last baby, my son, (who was 3 at the time) was very curious to say the least. He thought for awhile that the baby was biting mommy. He however came to understand that mommy was feeding the baby.It was too cute! Although it seems that children always need you for something when your hands are tied, they do understand (to some extent anyway) that you can't just get up and go! Good luck & congratulations!=-)

A. - there are a couple of books by Marc Brown who has a well known character named Arthur, and they address new siblings quite well. You can do a search on Amazon to see them, there are quite a few. Good luck!

Hi A.,
Congratulations on your pregnancy. There are books in the Arthur, Berenstain Bears, and Franklin series about new babies joining the family - these are fiction stories for children, not factual books about babies. I don't know about a book that specifically talks about being a brother to a sister, and he doesn't need to be any more gentle with a girl baby than a boy.
As for the breastfeeding, I think this is just a discussion that you need to have with him. Honestly it's not different from bottle feeding - if you were giving the baby a bottle, you couldn't stop in the middle of feeding to get up and do something for your 3 year old - with bottle feeding, you always need two hands, breastfeeding, you get to a point where you have a free hand - way easier when you have an older child. When I had my 2nd, I eventually had both hands free, I dressed Barbie and colored pictures and read to my 4 year old when feeding the baby. I think it's important to discuss with your child what it means to have a baby, and that when you're in the middle of feeding or diapering the baby, you cannot stop. When my son was born, there were times that he'd start to fuss and I would be doing something with my 4 year old, and I'd say, "You have to wait a minute, I am busy with K right now." He didn't understand, of course, but my daughter understood that at that time, she was first, she was the priority and the baby had to wait.
Good luck!!!

Hi A.,
Congratulations!!!!! I too have a 3 year old son and I'm due in 3 weeks. We have I'm a Big Brother by Joanna Cole, and The New Baby by Mercer Mayer. Neither deals with breastfeeding, but they're really cute and my son loves them. Also if you google "books about having a new sibling" an Amazon.com list comes up. Best of luck with the rest of your pregnancy, and congrats again!

We recently bought a book called, "My New Baby" by Annie Kubler. My son is almost 2 1/2. It's a wordless picture book, which many people didn't like according to the reviews, but that didn't bother me. It was the only book I came across that showed the mother nursing, and it also shows the father being very involved. I just didn't see the point of having a book that didn't show a baby nursing, as that will be one of my biggest time commitments with the baby, and one of my biggest concerns with my son (he just weaned a few months ago, so he still remembers). We got it from Amazon from a seller, new, and only paid a few bucks for it.