Baby Care Books - Why Bother

I was looking through some of our books the other day and came across a small collection of books on baby care and raising children. We bought them back when we learned that we were expecting our first child.

Since neither of us had ever taken a very practical role in raising other babies in our families, we felt we needed some idea of what was to come, so being good educated people; we went out and bought a load of books.

They were mainly useless, flicked through once and then left to be forgotten on a shelf. The truth was that as soon as the kids arrived we just bluffed our way though it and made it up as we went along the same as everybody else does. With the second child it was even worse as even the 'great systems' we had devised for our first child became just too much bother when the second one arrived and were even further watered down.

Incidentally, there are two books though which have proved to be invaluable in caring for both our children. These are 'Advanced Engineering Mathematics' by Erwin Kryzig (6th edition) and 'Longmans Dictionary of Contempory English'.

Both these books are about 6cm thick and therefore perfect for placing under the legs of the babies’ cot to lift up the head end when they catch colds and can’t sleep because of blocked noses...