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Posted: Aug 03 2012 at 10:11pm | IP Logged Quote JaysFamily
I need suggestions for light reading for those brain-dead, nursing all day times after the baby comes. I'm interested in books, magazines, catalogs, and blogs. I'm a very visual person, so I'll probably stick with whatever has interesting pictures, as long as it helps me stay awake. I've just signed up for Real Simple magazine, but that won't come until October or November, and I need something in the next month. I also have the new version of Breastfeeding Answers Made Simple, so that will be all the heavy or educational material I can handle that first month or so.

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Posted: Aug 03 2012 at 10:21pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn
My very first suggestion will actually be a bed to nurse baby while you sleep. Then you won't be so brain dead.

But as for books.. this is a time to reread those things you loved when you were younger.. Little Women? Anne of Green Gables? (all the sequels and additional books should keep you in reading material with just those two)

Freckles and the Girl of the Limberlost.

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Posted: Aug 03 2012 at 10:34pm | IP Logged Quote JaysFamily
I will be high risk for clotting post birth, so I can't nap as much around the clock as I'd like.    I need things to read to help me stay awake, and while I do some squats or other things to get my blood pumping after sitting for laying around for nursing.

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Posted: Aug 03 2012 at 10:43pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn
oh ugh.

So still I like rereading childhood favorites at that time.

You might need something more exciting to read though to help you stay awake. hmmm

Have you read the Harry Potter books? or the Hunger Games books?

Not exciting but nice reading.. Katherine Valentine's Catholic stories of a small town?

I'm currently rereading the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings (I got them on the kindle for my birthday).

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What about a mystery series?

Sheila Connolly has created a couple of good (light) mystery series that I'm enjoying. Ellen Crosby writes a series set in a Loudon Co., Virginia winery (not terribly far from where I live, so I can attest to her attention to detail). Diane Mott Davidson's long-running series is fun to read. And, if you are interested in horses or horse racing, Dick Francis is your guy.

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Costco has good prices on magazines. You could send someone there to grab a current real simple as well as some others. There is a specialty magazine that comes out periodically called Cottage Style, which I like.

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