Infant care book recs
My best friend is having a baby and I want to be as helpful as I can. She is a server and only gets 4 weeks of maternity leave. I have been saving up my PTO to help her and her husband during the transition of her going back to work, I have saved just over two weeks, with weekends and will be staying with them for weeks 5 and 6 after she gives birth. She is a first time mom and I am not a mom. I want to learn everything that I can to help them out and not put the burden of teaching me absolutely everything on my friend who is also learning everything for the first time too! I want to give myself a solid base line.
I’m looking for books more about infant care, scheduling, diapering, sleep habits, bottle feeding, burping. The new mom books focus a lot on the mom’s healing journey, mental health and physical limitations after birth. All of which is so important and I don’t plan on skipping those either I’m sure that info will come in handy, I’m there to help my friend after all! But I’m looking for something with less “listen to your body” “go with your instincts” since I won’t have any lol and I guess more of like a Nannie’s guide to infant care or book helping adoptive parents of infants if that makes any sense?
I am not completely hopeless, I babysat all through my young life, I was the student teacher assistant for the child development program in high school which included a working active daycare for 3-4 year olds for two years. I was on track to be a teacher before I decided on a major career change but all of that was so long ago and none of my practical experience has been with infants! I just want to be prepared and helpful.