Recommended readings

When recommending our companions of Direct to the Palate the book of Carlos González, I realized that we have never talked about him in Babies and more with what we like the author's books and despite being a classic of literature for parents. My child does not eat me is the first book written by the pediatrician with the intention of reassuring many parents overwhelmed by the inapetence of their children.

Among the books that help decide the name we want for our baby, I liked the one entitled "The great book of names for your baby", by Dome Books, which reviews the names of babies so we have a more complete idea of ​​its meaning. In this volume, other interesting data that can help us choose, apart from the etymology, origin, meaning or onomatic data, are collected, such as the history of the original character to which the name is attributed (for example, mythological, biblical characters ...), or the variants thereof.

Javier Urra, a psychologist who held the position of Ombudsman for Children in the Community of Madrid, has published a book entitled "What do our children hide?" It is presented as the report that tells us the secrets of teenagers and what their parents keep quiet. Despite not being dedicated to children of the ages that we mainly attend in Bebesymás, I have found it very interesting to present it.

Our society considers that schooling, and more specifically, the current educational model in Spain, is valid and correct. Not all voices think this way. Whatever the final conclusion we get to know these opinions and other experiences in educational matters is very revealing.

Born by caesarean section? It is a book we talked about in Babies and more two years ago. This is a book that tries to be a help for as the subtitle "Avoid unnecessary caesarean sections and live respectful caesarean sections" says. Now this book has been published in Argentina by Norma editions and is available in bookstores since July.

I wish I had read these books before I was a mother! It would have saved me so many fears, insecurities, dislikes, doubts ... but I learned trumpets and many times, when I discovered them, putting words to what I felt. They served me a lot, both to understand me and to explain to whom I wanted to hear my reasons for raising as I do.

We think that Philosophy is a discipline completely away from children's experience. However, the love of wisdom is something that since birth, humans carry inside. Children, innocent discoverers of the world, long to learn. Philosophy was born exactly like that, as the systematization of the unanswered questions we all ask ourselves.

Some time ago Lola brought us an interesting cookbook with recipes for the little ones in the house. Our companions from Direct to the palate have handled this work especially intended for infant feeding, "New recipes for babies and children", and also the kitchen specialists recommend it.

Those who read my articles about childbirth, may see that above all things I defend the right of women to choose the way they want to give birth to their baby, excluding caesarean section that I do not consider an option but a necessity. To be able to choose it is essential to be informed, so the book I present today seems to me a great help to be able to make an informed decision.

As we said yesterday, today, June 5, World Environment Day is celebrated, and we can celebrate it with our children in many ways. One of them is to spend a moment of the day reading together a story that deals with our natural environment and the importance of its care. Here I leave some examples of stories that we can find on the Internet and that will help us have a good time with the little ones while raising awareness about environmental issues.

This book offers us a journey in images across the five continents through photographs of great beauty, where we can appreciate that the love that all mothers feel towards our children in any corner of the planet, is above any other geographical, economic difference or cultural

For some women it will be their first year of celebrating this date. Others, you'll be about to be moms. Some of these readings related to pregnancy, motherhood or the world of babies may be interesting for them. To know what babies are like there is nothing better than living with them, and still we will always have many doubts.

I love La Parejita S.A. , who decides to live in common as a common-law couple and show us their adventures and misadventures by the hand of the cartoonist Manel Fontdevila. Lola already brought us some vignettes starring such nice characters that gave a touch of humor to a family scene for many parents ... And that is, this couple is not surprising.

Frederick Leboyer is one of the key figures in the history of childbirth: a pioneer, a revolutionary and an eminence. This book, although written in 1976 and reissued, is a classic, not only of obstetrics, but of life in general because birth (in most cases) is not a strictly medical scare, even if they take place in hospital environment.

Father's day is approaching, a special date that many children but also mothers take the opportunity to congratulate even giving parents some detail. And for that reason in this month dedicated to all of you in Babies and more we have talked about some gifts for daddies, such as personalized books, t-shirts or a simple cybernetic congratulation.

The Federation of Midwives of Spain (FAME) has prepared, together with the Women's Observatory of the Ministry of Health (within its normal delivery care strategy) the Normal Birth Initiative Book. This work defends actions that preserve the role of women when giving birth and increase the quality of childbirth care in health institutions.

How to teach children good eating habits is what this book offers us that has just been published by a team of child psychologists, Ángel Peralbo, Cristina Palmer, Mila Cahue and Silvia Álava, directed by Mª Jesús Álava, author of books as He also does not help to grow or The futility of suffering.

When a woman finds out that she is pregnant, one of the concerns is knowing how much and what to eat. The recommendations cannot be general, it depends on each woman and the period of pregnancy in which she is. This is how the dietitian and nutritionist Marta Anguera responded this morning in the “The Look of Life” section of a morning program, where she told us about a book she has published with the title “Diets for pregnant women”.

Internet is a window to the world, but as we know, the world has good things and bad things, also the virtual has its dangers, we are aware of the amount of news that comes to us through the news, newspapers and even by Experiences of some acquaintances. Children are entering new technologies more and more soon and to protect them from the dangers of the network there are various programs that parents have to configure.

A book we had borrowed (of those that you never see again) and that today we casually remembered to recommend it especially to first-time moms and dads concerned with knowing everything about their child's diet is Eating to grow. Its author, Mª José Rosselló, a specialist in dietetics and human nutrition, provides us with a good explanation about basic foods, with their nutritional values ​​and how they act in the body, a detailed guide to the foods that can be introduced into the baby's diet month by month, how to prepare the first porridge, different menus for each age, from birth to 12 years and always respecting the first months of exclusive breastfeeding.