reading to your baby?

Question

At what age did you start reading to your baby? What baby books do you recommend?

Answer 1

I read everything, especially Dr Suess to my kids when they were in the womb! One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish still makes one of my kids stop what they're doing and come running!

I bought every book I liked before I ever had a baby. I had a library of books for my first baby and read to my belly every night starting at my second trimester. Here are my faves: Good Night Moon, Very Hungry Caterpillar, Where the Wild Things Are, It's Pajama Time, 10 Little Ladybugs, All Sesame Street Bookds, Dora the Explorer books, there are so many! I'm sure I'm omitting great ones...

I also love music and listen to it pretty loud sometimes. My youngest came out of the womb loving Green Day!! He dances to it now and it's what I was stuck on when I was pregnant with him. One of my other kids freezes when he hears Mozart! Like, Hey I know that!

Read, sing, play music! They know you're voice because they hear it all the time, and if you read them the same stuff once they're born they'll recognize it, trust me on that.

You are going to have a blast. Go to amazon.com and look at the Best Sellers in baby books, they are the ones we're all buying:
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_837472_25/105-7732167-3662053?ie=UTF8&node=2752

Answer 2

We read to our kids from the day the pregnancy test came back positive. Both were early talkers and my son started reading full books by the time he was 4 and my daughter that's almost 3 has started to be able to pick out words on her own. You need to read to your kids from the beginning because it will help them all through life and is a way to bond with them too. The best advice I was ever given was from a good friend's dad who told me to always have books within an arm's length of my kids.
As far as the books...Dr Seuss books are great. They have early reader ones and then the ones that are for a little bit older are just fun to read. For little babies get some of the cloth ones so if they get it in their mouth it doesn't tear the book up but they can still hold onto it.

Answer 3

As a mother, an ECE and a librarian I can't stress how important it is to read to your baby. Reading with your baby does many things.
1. It creates a bond with baby.
2. It introduces your baby to sounds and words.
3. Teaches your baby how to hold a book, follow print
4. Stimulates imagination
5. Etc Etc Etc

May 8 month old loves books. Her favorites are bath books, board books and soft fabric books.

Infant books should be colourful and sturdy. That's why board books and cloth books are so popular. They can be chewed and dropped with no significant damage.

For more information check out the Every child ready to read program on the american library association website. Your public library will also have information about choosing books.

My personal favorite right now is Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings.

Answer 4

I started as soon as we came home from the hospital. I would lay him on his back or in my arms and hold the book and read. I would read picture books.Now he is 15 months and has a hard time just watching me read, so I will get a short book (usually a board book) and give him one too. He will chew on his and flip my pages. At this age board books are working well, I like Goodnight Moon.

Answer 5

It is good to start reading as early as you want. You could even possibly provide education by reading to your baby as early as when you find out that you are pregnant (it kind of goes along with the music on the belly thing).

Answer 6

I started reading right from birth. I started with board books with bright, colorful pages. The older my children get, the more complex the books are that I read to them.

Answer 7

I read to my son as soon as we got him home. We received a soft taggies book that had satin and fuzzy spot for me to rub his hand on. I slowly added different books, board books, and anything with bright colors and sturdy pages. He now (5 months) listens fairly well through about two stories and even has a favorite (Hippos Go Berserk!). He coos and screeches when I read it to him.

Answer 8

I started reading to my baby every night when he was 3 months. It was part of his bedtime routine. I read anything, even my parenting magazines. Any book is fine that has lots of everyday words.

Answer 9

I start at maybe 4 months. I start with board books that are close-up photographs of baby faces--there are lots of these out there. Babies love to look at faces.

Answer 10

We started a birth. Mainly board books and books with patches that you can feel different textures and things.

I find books that you can put photos into really good, it personalizes them for bub. We've had her own alphabet book made with family photos, and picking what each letter stands for.