Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
To fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of Bringing Up Ben & Birdy,a weekly column on babycenter.com. Now in the delightfully candid, outlandishly funny Waiting for Birdy, Newman charts the year she anticipated the birth of her second child while also coping with the realities of raising a toddler. As she navigates life with her existentially curious and heartbreakingly sweet three-year-old, and her doozy of a pregnancy, she lends her irresistibly unique voice to the secret thoughts and fears of parents everywhere. Filled with quirky warmth and razor-sharp wit, Waiting for Birdycaptures the universal wonder, terror, humor, and tenderness of raising a family.
Liked Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother Shares parenting, memoir, nonfiction -
The Second Nine Months: One Woman Tells the Real Truth about Becoming a Mom. Finally. Shares parenting, memoir, nonfiction -
Crawling: A Father's First Year Shares parenting, memoir, nonfiction -
It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons Shares parenting, memoir, nonfiction
“People who read Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family tend to reach for these next.”
“If you want more of the same (biography about parenting), start with these.”
-
Your Amazing Newborn
-
Stress-Free Potty Training: A Commonsense Guide to Finding the Right Approach for Your Child
-
Instinctive Parenting: Trusting Ourselves to Raise Good Kids
-
Nursing Mother, Working Mother: The Essential Guide for Breastfeeding and Staying Close to Your Baby after You Return to Work
“If it was the parenting that hooked you, try one of these.”
-
Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life: Or How I Learned to Love the House, the Man, the Child
-
Dad or Alive: Confessions of an Unexpected Stay-at-Home Dad
-
When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be
-
It Could Happen to You: Diary of a Pregnancy and Beyond
