Prepared Postpartum

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No one is naturally a great parent. People become great parents by practicing parenting every single day.

Great parents are creative, playful, forgiving, and flexible. Your baby will be changing and developing at speeds that will astonish you! Within a few short months (the longest months of your life) your baby will be eating real foods, crawling around, babbling words, and being SO adorable they will get the attention of anyone in the room. With all the change and development it can be helpful for parents to get a head start on what usually works best with kids. Below are some resources that you may find helpful. Remember there is no one way to parent. Take the bits of information that you think will serve you and your child, leave the others behind and most of all trust your intuition.

Books:

Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life by Peter Gray

Nurture Shock, by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

We Live for We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood, by Dani McClain

The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson

Positive Discipline by Jane Nelsen, Ed.D.

Positive Dicipline, The First Three Years, by Jane Nelsen, Ed.D.

Feeding Baby Greene, M.D.

Happiest Baby on the Block

Zero to Five

Easy to Love Difficult to Discipline

Podcasts: