Description: The beloved author of the "Bringing Up Ben & Birdy" column on babycenter.com offers this delightfully candid, outlandishly funny chronicle of the year she anticipated the birth of her second child while also coping with the realities of raising a toddler.
Review Quotes: "Might be the funniest--and most astute--account of a mother's first years with her child since Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions." --Chris Bohjalian, author of Midwives and Before You Know Kindness
"Catherine Newman's new book about the rock and roll life of newborn parents is hysterical... Don't give birth without it." --Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Baby Bat's Lullaby