Welcome With Love

Welcome With Love
by Jenni Overend

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Author: Jenni Overend
Illustrator: Julie Vivas
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-03-01
ISBN: 0916291960
Number of pages: 32
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Pub

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Book Review: If you buy one sibling book, make it this one
Summary: 5 Stars

My son (26 months) loves this book. He calls it "teeny tiny baby socks" because in the book the baby's socks are "so tiny they fit on my fingers" and then later when the baby wears them, they look too big. Those socks seem to be giving him a good idea of how tiny a newborn is. The other day I showed him his birth "blood guts and gore" photos, which includes one with just his head sticking out of me. There is a very similar, realistic but pastel, drawing of the Mum and baby in this book, and that night when we read the book, he pored over the picture, like he was really taking in the similarity with his birth photos. The other picture in the book that fascinated him was the one with the baby hanging from the umbilical cord (it's kind of cartoony in that the mom isn't in the picture, but really cute homebirthing newborn in its alertness). He measured his hands against the baby-in-the-picture's hands, just like we'd measured his hands against his 3-day-old handprints that we found with the birth photos. It also covers the issue of the baby getting the place "between Mum and Dad, where I would like to be" and the little boy then solving the situation by hopping into Dad's sleeping bag with him (they are all spending the baby's first night in front of the fire in the lounge).

A few people have commented the house was very rustic, but really you don't see much of the house. It is possible there is a TV and microwave out of sight (there is a phone there), and coming from a warm climate that does have winter like Australia (where the book is from), I don't think it's "rustic" to have a fire in your lounge, especially on a special occasion. In countries without central heating, you have to make a plan in winter. I think because the sleeping arrangements are so obviously for that night only, families who have separate rooms and beds as well as families who have a family bed can relate to it. Similarly, although the "garden" is shown to have loads of trees and look very homesteady, the boy talks about "everyone in town" hearing that the baby is being born.

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Summary of Welcome With Love

A family helps Mom deliver her baby at home.

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