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2.0 out of 5 stars
Not so much, December 19, 2010
This review is from: I Watched my Brother Being Born: Including Children At Birth (Paperback)
This book might work well for older children- 7+ but not for toddlers for sure! I ended up giving it to my midwife.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Favorite Birth Book, January 30, 2012
This review is from: I Watched my Brother Being Born: Including Children At Birth (Paperback)
My 3 and 4 year-old have a stack of books about home birth and this is the one they keep begging us to read. Yes, it's very wordy, but my girls still love it. It's given them a good idea of what it will be like when they attend their own brother's birth in a couple months. The photos seem to have more meaning for them than some of the more beautifully illustrated books we have. Not ideal for a toddler, but if they enjoy longer books, this is a great preparation for any child getting ready to attend a sibling's birth.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
REALLLLLYY wordy, not entertaining, cheaply made, January 20, 2012
This review is from: I Watched my Brother Being Born: Including Children At Birth (Paperback)
I'm having a home birth, and my sister will be there. Both she and I want her six-year old daughter to be at the birth, and the six-year old is ecstatic about it. However, my sister wanted to prepare her daughter a bit for the birth. I ordered this book in the hopes it would be something she could read to her daughter to help explain the process.
Unfortunately, it is SOOO wordy and boring. It is an uninspiring, lengthy play-by-play of a woman's labor and birth at home, surrounded by her husband and other children. Honestly, I couldn't even bring myself to read the entire thing because it was so boring. Every page probably has four paragraphs of words on it, and one or two small photos. I can't imagine any child would be remotely interested. Even if they were, they would get lost because there's just too much detail and words.
The graphics look like point-and-shoot photos taken by an amateur, documenting certain parts of the birth process. I happen to be a birth photographer, so I know birth photos don't have to look this blah.
There is really nothing interesting or "book-like" about it. It's more like the mother wrote a super long birth story blog post, got a friend to take some snapshots, and threw it haphazardly into a book. It reads like the family's own documentation of the birth, like a family scrapbook of sorts, that no one else really cares about. It doesn't read like a children's story book or picture book, which is what I hoped for.
On the other hand, I HIGHLY recommend
Hello Baby, as it was exactly what we were looking for. Beautiful illustrations, short and simple story of a home birth with midwife, father, children, present. It is truly a picture book for kids like I hoped this would be.
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