Reddit reviews I'm a Big Sister

The book title is I'm a Big Sister and the chalkboard says: Reserved November 2016.

I'm A Big Sister is a great one. In terms of board books, My New Baby and Waiting for Baby are both good too.

We went through this recently - I had my baby a few weeks ago - and we told her when I was 12 weeks. SD was almost three when we told her and is now 3.5. We told BM first as a courtesy/heads up and then let her know once we told SD so she would be prepared. I highly recommend cluing in BM - it made the whole thing go so much easier and let BM know that we were considering her feelings and including her in the process, which led to some great dialog about concerns BM had about how to make sure SD was okay with the whole thing.

We had three “I’m a big sister” books on heavy rotation that SD still asks to read during bedtime. They were extremely helpful in getting her ready, and she had about six months to get used to the idea. We altered some of the words, like instead of “Mommy and Daddy say I’m special”, we would tack on my name or remove “mommy”. And we also altered the words to be relevant to our family - like one of them had a thing about painting the baby’s room, so we’d ask SD what color we painted our baby’s room. It’s not like she can read and doesn’t know the difference! We also explained that the baby would call me mommy. I don’t know if she totally gets how it works, but when she’s referring to the baby, she’ll say things like “baby says ‘mama I love you’” and just today told me I was a “good mommy”, so there’s that.

Kids her age are also veeeery into baby dolls and taking care of them, so my SD had quite a few baby dolls that we practiced with and talked about what was appropriate (gentle touches, kissing on the back of the head, etc.)


Links to the books we bought in order of favorite to least favorite (but we liked them all):

I’m a Big Sister by Joanna Cole https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061900621/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_1pIoDb4WBPJMR

I Am a Big Sister by Caroline Jayne Church https://www.amazon.com/dp/0545688981/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_CqIoDbQ1GB7VB

Waiting for Baby by Rachel Fuller https://www.amazon.com/dp/1846432758/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_arIoDb9D1CCZ7