When I was looking to get pregnant I wanted to be prepared for anything and everything from the scientific logistics of how and when to conceive to how to help a baby expel gas. Well when I went to get started I realized there was no one consolidated list that had everything laid out nicely from conception to the early weeks to your second trimester to preparing for birth to holy shit your kid arrived and… now what?
SO here is my list of resources that I used to help me prepare!
- Conception:
- Articles:
- Apps:
- Clue: Tracks your period so you can help predict when you’re most fertile!
- Books:
- Podcasts:
- Once your pregnant:
- Articles:
- Due Date Calculator helps you plan when your babe is estimated to arrive should you conceive in a particular month! This really helped me plan when I was planning, attempting to plan, around wedding season!
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Apps:
- The Bump
- What to Expect
- Pregnancy +
- Books:
- Birth Without Fear: The Judgment-Free Guide to Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum Kindle Edition
- Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong–and What You Really Need to Know
- The First-Time Mom’s Pregnancy Handbook: A Week-by-Week Guide from Conception through Baby’s First 3 Months
- Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding: From the Nation’s Leading Midwife
- Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth
- The Sh!t No One Tells You About Pregnancy: A Guide to Surviving Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Beyond
- What to Expect When You’re Expecting
- Podcasts:
- Courses:
- Instagram Accounts I followed:
- Babe is here:
- Apps:
- Baby Tracker
- The Wonder Weeks App
- Blogs:
- Books:
- 7 Secrets of the Newborn: Secrets and (Happy) Surprises of the First Year
- Bringing up Bebe
- Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
- Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting
- The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother
- The Happiest Baby on the Block; Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
- Narratives from the Crib: With a New Foreword by Emily Oster, the Child in the Crib
- No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame
- What’s Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
- The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
- Pump. Repeat. (The New Mom’s Survival Guide to Breastfeeding and Going Back to Work)
- Podcasts:
- Instagram Accounts I followed:
- Apps:
- Articles:
Okay, turns out after putting down all the resources, books, articles, videos, blogs and Instagram accounts that I’ve looked into over the last year and a half… I am a little bit of a research nerd. Holy moly.
Anywhoosie, enjoy my brain dump of information! I sure hope you find it helpful!
Let me know if you found any of this information helpful or if you think I should anything to this list!
