My Child Won’t Eat by Carlos Gonzalez, MD

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Synopsis:
A reassuring guide to help parents promote healthy eating habits.
Review:
Superfast Baby has not shown much interest in solid food, so My Child Won’t Eat was really helpful for me. Basically it reassured me that I can trust my instincts that she is getting the nutrition she needs from breastmilk, and that quality (ie, healthy [...]

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Tags: Spanish Literature

Two Books on Breastfeeding Issues

August 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Milk, Money, and Madness by Naomi Baumslag and Dia L. Michels
Mother’s Milk by Bernice Hausman
I’m researching an essay on breastfeeding practices and ended up reading these two dense and serious tomes that delve into America’s abysmally low breastfeeding rates. The American Association of Pediatrics recommends breastfeeding for at least a year, and the [...]

Popularity: 6% [?]

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Tags: American Literature

Parenting, Inc by Pamela Paul

July 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Synopsis:
An overview of the craze for consumption that has overtaken American parents.
Review:
I would’ve read Parenting, Inc even if I didn’t have a baby, because I find spenders (and hoarders, too) to be endlessly fascinating. I’ve also been interested in child development since I was in high school, and of course as a new mother [...]

Popularity: 11% [?]

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Tags: American Literature

Healthy Child, Healthy World by Christopher Gavigan

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Synopsis:
A practical how-to guide for greening your home.
Review:
I could have done without the celebrity endorsements in Healthy Child, Healthy World. I really don’t care what kind of diapers Brooke Shields uses or that Noah Wyle’s kids are vegetarians. I guess these are good selling points, but to me these sidebars were just a [...]

Popularity: 21% [?]

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Tags: American Literature · On Reading

Charanavi by Masahiro Tsuromoto

May 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Synopsis:
How your birthday tells you who you are.
Review:
Charanavi is a Japanese book in translation and offers a fortune-telling system that relates your birthday to a type of animal. Based on my birthday, 11/4/1973, I am a “potential tanuki.” A tanuki is a sort of raccoon indigenous to Japan. Being a potential tanuki [...]

Popularity: 15% [?]

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Tags: Japanese Literature

The Starter Marriage by Pamela Paul

March 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Synopsis:
An overview of the recent phenomenon of marriages that end before they reach the five-year mark.
Review:
I hate books that never tell you more than what you read in the title. I generally enjoy books like this, as I’m keenly interested in human behavior and social trends, but this book really didn’t do it for [...]

Popularity: 32% [?]

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Tags: American Literature

Pushed: The Painful Truth about Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care by Jennifer Block

February 22nd, 2008 · 10 Comments

Synopsis:
A muck-raking expose of what happens in labor and delivery wards across America.
Review:
Pushed upset me–so much so, that I considered not finishing the book. I have an innate mistrust of doctors and hospitals after some rough treatment I received during a miscarriage last year. where I was not informed of all my options and [...]

Popularity: 34% [?]

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Tags: American Literature

3 New Parenting Books

February 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Touchpoints: Birth to 3 : Your Child’s Emotional and Behavioral Development by T. Berry Brazelton
A good resource for understanding infant and baby behavior and milestones. It’s a bit mainstream for my taste, in that Brazelton never wants you to forget that he is a pediatrician and he knows your baby best. I [...]

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Tags: American Literature

Non Fiction Meme

February 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’m late getting to Gautami’s Non Fiction Meme.
* a) What issues/topic interests you most in non-fiction, i.e, cooking, knitting, stitching, there are infinite topics that have nothing to do with novels? Books about food, books that explain scientific topics for general readers, biography, memoir, history, travelogues.
I love reading books about my hobbies, [...]

Popularity: 45% [?]

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Tags: On Reading

The Daring Book For Girls

February 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Synopsis:
A compendium of activities and fun facts for girls.
Review:
Jumprope rhymes, hand-clapping games, the rules of 4-square, and facts about famous female explorers are just a selection from the wonderfully random assortment of Things Girls Should Know. The Daring Book For Girls is a fun piece of nostalgia that I want to share with all [...]

Popularity: 22% [?]

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Tags: American Literature