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There's no such thing as the "perfect parent." All you really need to do in parenting is love your child and try your best. Don't believe us? Take it from the real-life parents who wrote these books!
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by Heather Flett and Whitney Moss
You've fed your baby, burped her, changed her 100 times and logged her tummy-time minutes for the next month. What else is there to do? That's exactly what this handbook will tell you. It's got 250 enjoyable activities to help rookie moms get out of the house, get connected and gain confidence with their new gig.
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by Julie Bort, Aviva Pflock and Devra Renner
Written by therapists, this book's the most expert-centric of the bunch, but all three of the authors are mamas themselves. Their professional and personal experience, combined with hard research, gives stressed-out moms techniques to help prioritize the truly important issues of parenting.
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by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
In addition to having the BEST TITLE EVER, this book has some of the best lines ever written in a parenting memoir-slash-manual (she says, for example, that breastfeeding "... hurts like a rhesus monkey biting your nipples").
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by Vicki IovineWe think Vicki Iovine's follow-up to pregnancy bible
The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy is even better! It's written just like girlfriends talk post-baby. From when to resume having sex to when you'll finally lose the weight, Vicki gives you the straight scoop.
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by Stacie Cockrell, Cathy O'Neill and Julia Stone
The "Babyproofers"—as the authors call themselves—interviewed hundreds of couples to learn how parents can safeguard their marriage after baby comes home (psst…it takes more than some light socket covers from Babies R Us!).
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by Heather ArmstrongThe mother of all mom bloggers, Armstrong (a.k.a.
Dooce) provides an honest and irreverently humorous account of her decision to stop taking antidepressants while pregnant and the crippling postpartum depression that followed. Between the poop and boob jokes, Armstrong's love for her baby and personal strength are inspiring.
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by Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile
Whether you're a working mom, a SAHM or some combo of the two, there's one thing we all share: mommy guilt. Two real moms interviewed tons of mothers from every walk of life and in this book reveal their guiltiest secrets.
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by Michelle Lamar with Molly Wendland
You don't have to be white or trashy to ROTFLOL while cramming this book on giving up the silly artifices of being a perfect mother. "White trash" is just shorthand for not caring about pleasing other mothers and instead, pleasing the peeps that really matter: our kids.
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