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Originally posted by SEC_Chick
My mother is a professor of early childhood development and Touchpoints is the book that she most highly recommends. Knowing how I turned out, however, I have not yet followed my mother's reading recommendation. I do own a copy of it though.
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LOL. I've always given the following advice to new parents: Get your parenting advice from a book IF AND ONLY IF your parents and your SO's parents were both such worthless pieces of shit that you'd rather obtain guidance from total strangers with no track record whatsoever. Minor premise is that if you obtained a college degree and still have all of your fingers and toes, your parents did something right, because that shit does not happen by accident --- for as much as we all bitch about our parents, a real total absence of parenting results in festering wounds and compulsive masturbation. (Hi, Less!) No one capable of posting on this board can truthfully say they have zero to learn from either of their parents.
When I have a parenting problem, I don't open a book. I call my Mom. If what she says makes no fucking sense, I ask Dad instead. If I disagree with him, I'll go to the library. I haven't been to a library in four years.
Re: nursing. I concur that you shouldn't make any permanent decisions on it until you're past six weeks. The agony goes away after about four. If there's a thrush infection at any point, add two weeks to the total. For 90% of people it becomes as easy as falling off a log. Get a rec for a lactation consultant --- you can afford it, and it will reduce the misery in the first week.
