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Congrats!

It’s difficult to navigate all the advice you’ll get. For early stages I sticked to one large book that has it all (the one I have is in French and is called j’élève mon enfant and covers everything), but I am sure you’ll find one in English - babies for dummies or something like that. You just need the basic guidelines for food, sleeping patterns, body care, clothing, etc.

When problems arise, we got more specific help. Our second child wouldn’t sleep the first two months so my wife took some webinars to understand how to improve and the advice we got worked well.

Regarding education, things get a lot more complicated. We are in a period when education ideas are changing and you’ll get all kinds of theories from: “never contradict a kid” to “kids these days need discipline more than anything else”.

We found that Faber and Mazlish books are really good and grounded in real life situations. These helped us quite a lot.