Reddit reviews Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby's First Year: From Doctors Who Are Parents, Too!

My wife and I looked at Mayo Clinic's Guide to healthy pregnancy. It was neat to look up what was going on on the given week. We also took a trip to Babies R' Us early on to get an appreciation of what we'll need, what we'll want, and how much everything will cost.

For after the baby comes out: The Happiest Baby on the Block and Mayo Clinic's Guide to Your Baby's First Year, also.

My personal favorite is the [Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby's First Year] (http://www.amazon.com/Mayo-Clinic-Guide-Babys-First/dp/1561487503/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382884091&sr=8-1&keywords=mayo+clinic+baby). It goes through a ton of things you might not already know- how to tell if baby has a skin rash, what a sleep schedule should look like, etc. My favorite part though, is that they have a chapter for each month of the first year of a baby's life that details what you can expect. Furthermore, they provide help in what you should be doing in each of those months. Hope this helps!

This a good resource book, it has a lot about life as a parent too: about relationships, work, etc. It goes month by month into how your child is developing and growing. https://www.amazon.com/Mayo-Clinic-Guide-Babys-First/dp/1561487503

I like the Mayo Clinic Guide to Baby's First Year. It discusses all aspects of baby care, but each monthly chapter has a section with a pretty large list of developmental milestones your baby should be working on. It's been pretty spot on and includes more than just the basic things I've read around the internet. It also suggests some play activities too.

Definitely! And once y'all are ready, I highly recommend the Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby's First Year. A similar sort of practical helpfulness.

If you want a book recommendation my absolute favorite book for those first few months was Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby's First Year. Since your GF already has a 3 year old you might not find it as helpful as my wife and I did but it was our absolute favorite to answer all those questions you wonder in that first year.

The piece of advice I got that was the absolute best piece I receive was to go out and do things in those first few weeks. You will be tired and a lot depends on your GF's recovery but in a lot of ways your baby will be more portable in the 6 or so weeks post birth than they will be for a long time since you can leave right after they go to sleep and they hopefully just sleep through things allowing you to eat dinner and get out of the house.

I found 3-6 months to be the most isolating time because they are aware enough to make it hard to just pack them up and go to dinner or something while they sleep but they aren't able to sit in a high chair or really entertain themselves so going out with them at that age is a real ordeal and that can become very isolating.

I don't know how good it will be but I got the Mayo Clinic Guide since I have found their pregnancy book very helpful.

Check out this book! I've been reading it and it's great. https://www.amazon.com/Mayo-Clinic-Guide-Babys-First/dp/1561487503

Congrats! One subreddit that was super helpful for me when we found out is /r/predaddit.

As for books, I would recommend The Mayo Clinic Book, as it is waaaay less scary than the "what to expect" book.

Good luck... it's the start of the best adventure. :)

I love this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1561487503/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1397573328&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40

I found this book very fun to read during pregnancy: http://www.amazon.com/Mayo-Clinic-Guide-Babys-First/dp/1561487503. It goes month-by-month with what to expect and helpful advice (based on actual science!).

Note: It is 4 years old and there are a few guidelines that have changed since the publication date, but nothing major.

There are a few books like this

Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby's First Year: From Doctors Who Are Parents, Too! https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1561487503/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_0oa-BbHJTKHH5

A Google search for "baby development guide" will reveal others.

No baby here yet (I'm due 3 days before you and still haven't popped yet!), but I have a few book recommendations. Your boyfriend might enjoy the first because it's amusing and not really overwhelming, called The Baby Owner's Manual. I am currently reading Mayo Clinic's Guide to Baby's First Year, which is more clinical but VERY detailed. I really enjoyed the mayo clinic pregnancy book because it wasn't as scare-tactic as some of the others (like What to Expect) but still gave good, evidence-based information. Speaking of evidence-based, I read and thoroughly enjoyed The Science of Mom, which is kind of like Expecting Better but for baby's first year of life. It goes over a lot of scientific studies, if that's your thing!

There are too many Christian parenting books to even try to count, and probably none of them are perfect. For my wife and I, a practical approach was more what we are looking for.

My most sincere advice would be to make sure you have a good and healthy relationship together as parents (another topic on which there are more books than any one person could ever read). If the two of you have a good relationship with each other and with God (and you both have common sense), then you will probably be fine parents.

But take my advice with a grain of salt, my only child is only 6 weeks old.

I really like and trust my OB, so I asked her for recommendations. I looked online for reviews on the three docs she recommended, then called their offices to see if they were accepting new patients. Only one was. She has regular meet and greets with new potential patients, so I signed up for one of those in July. After the meet and greet my husband and I will decide whether to go with her as our pediatrician.

The Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby's First Year (don't get the kindle edition--the formatting is terrible) has a section on picking a pediatrician, family doctor, or nurse practitioner for your baby. They also have a list of questions to ask.