Till now it was just you and him, and now you’re planning to bring in that extra-special one who will make this already-perfect picture a little more perfect. Of course you have all the love and care of your family with you. While everyone is busy loading you with advice on what to do and not to do, as mums, we really want to take out time and do some catching up ourselves, isn’t it? One parenting-bible that all mums world-over swear by is the What To Expect Series by author Heidi Murkoff. Starting from the first day of your pregnancy, with What To Expect When You Are Expecting, to talking about how to ensure complete nutrition for your unborn in Eating Well When You Are Expecting, the ‘What To Expect’ book series will stay on your bookshelf for a long time to come. Dr. Nutan Pandit’s book Eating Right talks about those nine months from a very Indian perspective. Author Ann Douglas’s The Mother Of All Pregnancy Books’ is another good read for those afternoons in the next nine months. Pregnancy is a time to celebrate with your spouse, but these nine months are also a beginning to the changes that will come over you as partners. Authors Carolyn Pape Cowan and Philip A Cowan have come out with the perfect book for such evenings, about the time ‘When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change For Couples’. As much as this pregnancy is about you, it is also about your partner, the father-to-be. Much as our men like to show they can handle-it-all, we know how much babies they can really be at heart, don’t we? And this is just the time when they need lots of assurance and knowledge of what is to come. The book The Birth of A Father by author Cecilia Worth is for the father-to-be, talking about the emotional change in your relationship, what he will and is going through, as well as how he can become a buddy to your new little one. As much as he is pampering you, why not get a copy for him, or maybe ‘The One-Minute Father’ by author Spencer Johnson? We all love to know how its been for other women crossing into motherhood, so author Heather James brings us ‘Things A Mother Should Know’, a book compiling anecdotes, quotes and stories from countless mums who have faced all the trials, traumas and utter joy of motherhood. One little bundle is a house of joy, but two little-ones-to-be will be double the joy. Author Gina Ford and Alice Beer’s ‘A Contented House With Twins’ talks about real experiences on bringing up twins and how to have a happy home with your double darlings.