Now that I'm pregnant (EEEEK! 
) I want to start easing my 2 1/2 year old daughter into the idea of being a big sister and having a loud, needy, attention-stealing baby around. What books would you recommend to read to her?
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I found Waiting for Baby to he really helpful during pregnancy - all the "I'm a big sibling" ones seem a little abstract when there's no actual baby. This one is about buying new clothes and decorating a nursery, etc.
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Honestly first I would just start talking more about babies in general. How do you care for them, what do they do, etc.
When its later in your pregnancy you can start talking about her being a big sister and a baby coming to your house. 9 months is a REALLY long foreign time frame for little kids.
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I agree with @T.H.O.U.: we didn't say anything until I was about 5 months. We've been pointing out babies and she's been playing with them at daycare a lot. She now has a baby in her belly too (as does daddy). And we've stressed to her that babies really just sleep, cry and eat for a while as to not make her think she's getting a playmate.
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@T.H.O.U.: Agreed. I wish we had waited to bring it up. My son knows the new baby comes around Halloween, but to him that might as well be 2035. I'm 24 weeks and he commented yesterday that his sister was "never going to come." In hindsight I wish I had casually told him at 12 weeks so we could talk about it in front of him and not started focusing on "big brother prep" until around now.
We read a couple of books - A Baby Sister for Herry (Sesame Street), The Baby is Here (Daniel Tiger), and The New Baby (Bernstein's Bears). I think there are very few books you can read that would prepare your child for this transition. Verbal discussions (assuming she's verbal) would probably work best.
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Agreed with the above, but once we did start getting close I remember dd watched Daniel tiger baby episodes (and read a similar book) and I remember that being what stuck out for her even though we read other books. We had recently used Daniel tiger to assist in potty training so it timed well for us. I don't know how you feel about screen time or how your LO does though.
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