For anyone's family that has had a homebirth, you know, there is not a whole lot out there as far as choices of what to read your child in preparation! EVERY sibling book cuts out the birth of the baby with a few lines like this, "Then mommy and daddy went to the hospital and came home with my baby ________" For a homebirthing family this is booooooring! lol! Seriously, the kids at a homebirth are involved and know A LOT about the birth experience. Even if they aren't in the room when baby brother or sister are born, they are WAY more involved in every way. Getting to "help" at prenatal appointments, helping mommy organize the birth supplies. And usually atleast in the same house if not in the same room for the birth! I am currently preparing Bryse for the birth of this baby (as she wasn't in the same room when Cal was born) just the same way that I prepared Darby. By watching homebirth videos and talking a lot about it. (which, btw, she can not get enough of!!) But now we have a new way of preparing the kids!! "We're Having a Homebirth!!" by Kelly Mochel This is the kids' new favorite book! They LOVE it. It's honest and talks about birth in reality! Even explaining the placenta and umbilical cord. It even gives children advice on what they can do during a homebirth to help mommy! It is all illistrated very sweetly, even with drawn pictures of the mommy giving birth AND breastfeeding! I am quite pleased! I suppose we will just have to wait for other authors to get the idea and join Kelly Mochel in giving us homebirthers books for our children to enjoy. Until then, we couldn't be happier with this one!
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