Where to start if you don’t know anything about pregnancy, birth, or babies😳
Looking for guidance on where to start with big picture info like trusted, basic books, general broad strokes kind of resources. Not currently pregnant, but want to start trying this year.
For some context, me (30) and my husband (33) have somewhat recently (over the last year or so) decided we want to start a family after previously thinking we didn’t want to. For me this has a lot to do with cutting ties and healing from being raised by a narcissistic mom who really groomed me to not want children of my own. So I definitely have some big feelings about this and it still feels like a sort of scary/new revelation.
Besides not having a relationship with my mom, I also did not grow up around babies. I have very little extended family, not many friends with kids etc. so I feel like there is soo much basic “common sense” knowledge for most people that I don’t know the first thing about. I feel like I’m starting from scratch and don’t know where to begin in a way that will be helpful and empowering and not completely overwhelming.
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