I recently read a book a very nice a journalist in Milan, Paola Maraone " I was a good mother before having children" .
the tone is half-seriously, and irony along with the passing of the months of the life of a newborn to a year.
At the end of each chapter there are some suggestions for further reading.
I thought it was very apt phrase: "Good mothers are those who do not have children, because they have a lot of free time to read up on this and I often give unsolicited advice."
In fact when I was pregnant a few of the people around me, no children, had suddenly transmuted into gynecologists award-winning and now that the baby is born have turned into educators / child care / pediatricians awards.
book to read to play down and have a further confirmation that we are all in the same boat
