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The title, Baby Owner’s Manual, suggests the look excellent and the problem of this cheeky and comprehensive guide on paper by a pediatrician and his son. First-time parents who are not offended by the performance that "babies, unlike other appliances, lack instruction manuals," will find a rich store of facts and advice. The book is divided into seven categories of "operating instructions" including home installation, feeding and power supply, sleep mode, maintenance, enhancement, and safety. Complete with witty schematic drawings and charts, the authors answer hundreds of questions about breastfeeding, bed, bath, and beyond. While most manuals focus on tender loving care, the authors chose to focus on baby as technology. The result is a highly useful--nearly too cool--allusion book. Because every parent knows that babies are messier and more worthwhile than this deal with imagines. --Barbara Mackoff
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 Exceptional Read for the In the family way Father |
| Review Date: April 27, 2003 |
| Reviewer: Joe A, Seattle, WA, USA |
| I stumbled upon this book in the bookstore a couple of weeks ago on industrial Industrial accident, and was intrigued by the cover of a baby drawn in the style of functional diagram. What fascinated me further were the off the wall diagrams collective with the technical manual-esque style found inside, which made me reckon "Worst Case Scenario Handbook" for the parenting world. But moving beyond the cover I exposed many such useful facts which have undoubtedly helped me prepare for fatherhood. As a abstractedly jittery, somewhat baffled, but by and large excited in the family way father, this book has become a Godsend. I read "What to Expect In The First Year", and for the predictable male this doesn't work. The dialogue is so blatantly pitted toward women that my brain can't catalog it. The context juggles concepts of shopping, breastfeeding, and cutsie warm blankets in a convoluted, non-linear make which spawned a tangent-of-a-tangent style change of topics reminiscent of listening to my wife talk on the phone to her sister. This book combines humor with an effective style for logically-wired males like myself, and I urge it to anyone who wants to cut to the chase and really prepare for what to expect in fatherhood, and avoid the "what to wear to the baby shower" and other non-elemental rhetoric. |
Educational and humorous and entertaining conception
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| Review Date: May 19, 2003 |
| Reviewer: , |
| The book is on paper as if your baby is a product (therefore the need for this 'manual'). I skimmed owing to it in the bookstore and found it to be amusingly entertaining. I laughed at the verbage used and the 50s or 60s style pictures and diagrams. I bought it immediately and have loved it very much. Model on writing: they question you to "inspect" your model for all parts. Model of drawings: A circle with an adult holding a baby by the top of the head while the baby dangles with a line owing to the circle (as if to say 'Do not hold a baby by the top of the head). Evident, but amusing. I found it to by quite humorous. I've laughed out loud conception it. But I must say that this book has very excellent in rank on how to raise your 'model' (baby). If you are a new parent or know someone who is a new or soon-to-be parent who has a sense of humor, they will be grateful for this book. Louis Borgenicht, M.D., and his son Joe Borgenicht, D.A.D. (more humor) have on paper a master piece in my attitude. I would delight in conception this book if my kid was 25 or didn't have any. It's just plain entertaining (but, again, very well organized useful in rank is found within). |
Not just a satire!
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| Review Date: January 30, 2004 |
| Reviewer: Kyle Maxwell, Irving, TX |
| The book reads a bit satirically -- reckon of your standard baby care book but on paper like a VCR manual. But it's really useful in rank; we had our first child born recently, and it's been really useful to us. I've finished up buying copies for acquaintances, too. Once you figure out a few of the abstractedly less evident "terms" (like "benefit source" for "doctor"), it's simple to read and avoids a lot of the editorializing and "my baby was this way" found in similar books. Worth the time. |
For Techies and MBA's? Modern Humor/Utility Conception
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| Review Date: June 2, 2006 |
| Reviewer: elviswoman, Dallas, TX United States |
I have been conception so many honest books on becoming a parent, pregnancy, baby's first year, etc. lately that I needed something fun to balance it all out. I found this book at a boutique a few years back and gave it to my sister when she was pregnant as a joke. I had bookmarked the part on "brainwashing sleep mode".
So here we are three years later and it is my turn. I bought this copy for myself. If you are wondering the difference between this "bargain" copy versus the other fixed copy for sale, my copy came with a dirt smudge on the front and an obnoxious "BARGAIN" sticker on the back. Whatever, I saved some $$. My five stars are not for the condition, rather the inside.
This book is humorous, but the in rank is also useful. Being a techie, I find the technical writing format to be oddly comforting. I would urge this for any new parent that needs some fun conception. Buy the fixed more expensive one if you are giving it as a gift, but this one will work if you want a copy for physically. Hours of entertainment and culture along with an right and helpful schematic of baby await! |
Very Helpful!
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| Review Date: July 31, 2006 |
| Reviewer: S. Levi, Chicago, IL |
As silly as you may expect this book to be, as a first time mom, I found it pretty darn helpful and practical. I really like the part where it tells you how to wrap the baby like a burrito, kind of like how they do it in the hospital. The nurses do it so quickly you can't really follow what they're doing, but the book really gives you step-by-step instructions on how to do it. There's tons of fantastic advice and tips on how to care for your newborn in the book, and you'll be laughing hysterically the whole time. Fantastic for moms AND dads AND grandparents.
** Disclaimer: If you have NO SENSE OF HUMOR, this book is not for you. |
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