sean (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} digitalsean) wrote,@ 2007-12-31 10:38:00 |
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research for the new year
Been doing more reading and research than I've done in a while. Kate and I haven't really posted much about the impending event. Probably because it has been easier to take things one step at a time - get the practical stuff ready, and not worry about what happens next.
But eventually it comes time to do some reading and start to think about what happens next. My recent brush with doing reading around Nanophysics was not very successful - so here's hoping that bringing up kids will be an easier topic.
So You're Going to be a Dad, by Peter Downey, was a gentle introduction - friendly and comic view of impending daddy-hood to help over the denial and panic stage after the news.
Among the various leaflets from NHS was Ready Steady Baby, which I had been avoiding reading because of the large print and many bright coloured Q&A boxes. I was pleasantly surprised to find that there is a Ready Steady Baby website too.
Things are a lot closer now, and for some much more detailed advice I've had some rather heavier bed-time reading. The Baby Book, a gift from Barry, weighing in at 700 and odd pages has the appearance and layout of a university textbook. This is a complete approach. Reassuringly so, what with human bodies being complex things, and little ones seem to be doubly so.
Been doing more reading and research than I've done in a while. Kate and I haven't really posted much about the impending event. Probably because it has been easier to take things one step at a time - get the practical stuff ready, and not worry about what happens next.
But eventually it comes time to do some reading and start to think about what happens next. My recent brush with doing reading around Nanophysics was not very successful - so here's hoping that bringing up kids will be an easier topic.
So You're Going to be a Dad, by Peter Downey, was a gentle introduction - friendly and comic view of impending daddy-hood to help over the denial and panic stage after the news.
Among the various leaflets from NHS was Ready Steady Baby, which I had been avoiding reading because of the large print and many bright coloured Q&A boxes. I was pleasantly surprised to find that there is a Ready Steady Baby website too.
Things are a lot closer now, and for some much more detailed advice I've had some rather heavier bed-time reading. The Baby Book, a gift from Barry, weighing in at 700 and odd pages has the appearance and layout of a university textbook. This is a complete approach. Reassuringly so, what with human bodies being complex things, and little ones seem to be doubly so.
