iteechesinglish 's review for:

Heading Home with Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality by Laura A. Jana

4.0

informative medium-paced

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 I've surveyed several parenting guides and I found this one to easily be the most accessible and straightforward. It gives the essentials of what new parents should know to take care of a baby after coming home from the hospital. Other books may be more thorough, but I appreciated that this was a quick read with easy to find categories and straightforward but balanced recommendations. The authors point out in the beginning that every child is different and there is no one-size-fits-all approach to parenting. Some of the content may seem basic, but for someone like me with little to no experience with babies it was all welcome. I found the earlier sections about essential baby care to be the most useful and mostly ignored the last chapter or so about things like documenting the birth and early childhood. Overall for its short length and straightforward approach it's my favorite new parent guide.