If you are looking for a REALLY GOOD LAUGH, this is the book!  It is
particularly funny after the first 6 weeks of parenthood are past, so you
can look back at that time.  Actually the farther along in parenting you
get, the funnier it is (time does that, somehow).

It's called "Early Fatherhood Development", by Jeff Yoder.  I got it at an
LLLI Area Conference, although I would have to doublecheck if it is in the
catalog.  It's short (less than 100 pp), and the chapters are only a few
pages (short enough that even my husband stayed awake laughing for a whole
chapter without falling asleep).  This is one of those books I would
recommend that everyone read - not just dads.  A website given in the cover
is http://www.hysteriabooks.com .

In order to make this breastfeeding-related, here's a quote:

p. 13
Breastfeeding "Advice" Pamphlets

"Always consider the source when reading any kind of informative literature.
Ironically, the breastfeeding "adivce" pamphlets that are carefully left for
the new mother to discover in her hospital room are published by the very
samem people who would be out of business if everyone actually did
breastfeed - that's right, the formula companies.  How nice of them!  Yes,
they seem to have altruistically overcome the profit motive to be sure you
are fully informed about nature's perfect food, and mainly to be sure every
mother is aware of what to do about sore nipples, leaking nipples,
breast-pumping, mastitis...and, if for some strange reason she doesn't want
to have to deal with all these mammalian horrors, they just happen to have a
product for her:  the Orwellian-sounding Formula."

He goes on to recommend La Leche League as the place to find information.

At the end of each chapter is a "quiz" which is as funny as the chapters:

p. 17
"Here's your chance to test what you have learned in this chapter [The
Hospital].  In order to boost your self-esteem, assume all your answers are
correct.

The hospital is designed to:
a.  Make the birthing experience as painless as possible.
b.  Make the birthing experience as expensive as possible.
c.  Introduce a new generation of humans to mistreatment at the hands of the
insuro-medical bureaucracy.
d.  Make everyone wish they had beds that tilted up and down.

You get the picture.  It's tongue-in-cheek, on the sarcastic side, humor  -
but pretty accurate.

Sara Demmon

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