When I was in elementary school, I used to be required to read five books over the summer, write down the titles and authors and have an adult (my mom or a librarian) sign off verifying I had actually read the books.
This is sort of how I felt recently when Helen took me to task for not reading 'What to Expect When You're Expecting,' except I don't have to read five books and she's not signing a verification sheet at the end of the summer, as far as I know. She said she wanted me to read the first five chapters, so I could catch up to where she was. Even though I had a lot of reading to do, the beauty of starting when I did was that I could whiz by the first parts that talked about conceiving and 'are you pregnant?' and go right to where we currently are in the pregnancy.
The reading has been educational for sure, but I think each chapter might be more helpful to me if it had a daddy section at the end (I'm told the book has that toward the back) since I don't think I needed to know, for instance, that a new mom is likely to get hemorrhoids.
Fathers, what was your best source of knowledge about babies and parenting? Was it a book, a website, friends?
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