Full name: Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family

Author: Catherine Newman Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Parenting, Memoirs, Non Fiction, Humor Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780143034773 0143034774

To fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of Bringing Up Ben & Birdy, a weekly column on babycenter.com. Now in the delightfully candid, outlandishly funny Waiting for Birdy, Newman charts the year she anticipated the birth of her second child while also coping with the realities of raising a toddler. As she navigates life with her existentially curious and heartbreakingly sweet three-year-old, and her doozy of a pregnancy, she lends her irresistibly unique voice to the secret thoughts and fears of parents everywhere. Filled with quirky warmth and razor-sharp wit, Waiting for Birdy captures the universal wonder, terror, humor, and tenderness of raising a family. Similar books: The Big Rumpus by Ayun Halliday Alternadad by Neal Pollack Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman Making Babies by Anne Enright Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick No Land's Man by Aasif Mandvi Confessions of a Scary Mommy by Jill Smokler The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish Minus Nine to One by Jools Oliver Girl Walks Into a Bar... by Rachel Dratch Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood by Vicki Iovine Expecting Adam by Martha Beck Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos I Want My Epidural Back by Karen Alpert Babyhood by Paul Reiser Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight? by Dan Bucatinsky