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  <title><![CDATA[Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family]]></title>
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  <default_description>To fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of &quot;Bringing Up Ben &amp; Birdy,&quot; a weekly column on babycenter.com. Now in the delightfully candid, outlandishly funny &lt;I&gt;Waiting for Birdy&lt;/I&gt;, Newman charts the year she anticipated the birth of her second child while also coping with the realities of raising a toddler. As she navigates life with her existentially curious and heartbreakingly sweet three-year-old, and her doozy of a pregnancy, she lends her irresistibly unique voice to the secret thoughts and fears of parents everywhere. Filled with quirky warmth and razor-sharp wit, &lt;I&gt;Waiting for Birdy&lt;/I&gt; captures the universal wonder, terror, humor, and tenderness of raising a family.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">29</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">3</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2005</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family</original_title>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every so often a book comes along that I love so much and can't put down but watch the page numbers turn with sadness because I don't want it to end. I absolutely and truly loved every page of this book. I teared up at points because Newman captured so eloquently the extreme joy and anxiety of mothe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18464758">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like a book that makes my husband laugh. This is one of those books that we kept in the bathroom for a little light reading while doing the do. My husband said one night, &quot;That book in the bathroom is really good. It makes me wish I had to keep shitting just so I can read it.&quot; The truth ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5171039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46804699">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite of the many parenting memoirs that I've read in the last five years (since Iris was born). While Newman's story is about having a second child (Birdy), and I am not having more than one, she captures the experiences of mothering a newborn and a preschooler with perfect humor and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46804699">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24548884">
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 15 10:31:47 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 15 10:38:36 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the perfect book for anyone who has ever had even the slightest interest in having and raising children. Newman's sense of humor is perfect, quick, and truly borders on genius. If you don't laugh out loud at least ten times, someone should give you your money back. This is the real thing, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24548884">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5522135">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've loved Catherine Newman's blog, now called the &quot;Dalai Mama&quot; on Wondertime, since it was &quot;Bringing up Ben &amp; Birdy&quot; on ParentCenter.  She is smart, funny and incredibly honest about the joys and hassles of raising young kids.  I regularly find myself laughing out loud at the co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5522135">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8328653">
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  <date_added>Sat Oct 27 17:40:35 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 27 17:41:17 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was sooooo good.  My husband and I both said we need to buy it.  It's totally worth a re-read.  But my friend Tricia's review is the best--go check it out.]]></body>
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    <review id="59174506">
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 10 12:37:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 22 08:21:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Catherine Newman is the kind of person you want living next door. Funny, irreverent, with a heart as big as the mattress on her family bed. She also is a great writer, with the ability to notice the little things and comment on them in a way that gives them the importance they deserve. Wry, witty, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59174506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40678169">
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 22 10:05:33 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 17 08:43:23 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[well, I didn't finish this book.  I know everyone is giving it great reviews but it just isn't doing it for me.  I really don't ever not finish a book but I decided the stack of books I do have to read is too large to read a book that isn't great.  I am not saying this isn't a witty person that is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40678169">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43659535">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 19 20:30:56 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 19 20:30:56 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hi-LAR-ious! I don't often laugh out loud when reading, but this book had me chuckling and giggling at every turn.[return][return]I knew this was going to be my kind of book when I got to this part on page 11:[return][return]    &quot;I once sat up late with a friend, enjoying a shot or two of Jager...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43659535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26411363">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I give up trying to do this hilarious book any justice with a review.  Even pulling a few quotes doesn't work.  All I can say is, if you're going to be having a meal alone and you want something to read while you eat, DON'T pick this book.  You'll choke.  Repeatedly.<br/><br/>One note: like The Se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26411363">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16358621">
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  <date_added>Mon Feb 25 17:42:08 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 25 17:42:08 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book I bought one day recently when I really wanted to be buying hard cover travel books but wouldn’t let myself do it.  I don’t know why I torture myself that way – I end up buying two paperback books that aren’t exactly what I want to read, and then I have to force myself to read them...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16358621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15396594">
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jan 12 02:02:21 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Have you ever fallen in love with a book? So in love that you just couldn't stop reading it. Or, if you had to stop, you'd be thinking about it and rushing to get things done so you could get back to it? That was me with Catherine Newman's Waiting for Birdy last weekend. (In fact, my husband was get...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15396594">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43577815">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was written by a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://Babycenter.com">Babycenter.com</a> blogging mom while she was pregnant with her second child.  It was fun to read because she had a 3 year old son and was expecting a daughter, just like me!  She really hit home the mixed emotions I have about having another child.  Although I cannot say enou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43577815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56844011">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just re-read this again after having a second child and I enjoyed it even more. There's so much parenting authenticity in this book - it strikes the perfect balance between honesty and humor. Never cutesy or contrived, Catherine Newman just comes off as gosh-darn genuine. Like she's an old girlfri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56844011">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53783247">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Apr 23 19:33:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book I've read that discusses candidly the experinence of anxiety that most moms seem to face but seem to hide from one another. It is a funny- make you laugh, cry memoir. One of those books you think- hey- did I write this...it seems too familar. I love Catherine Newman's writing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53783247">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52671160">
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Apr 17 17:13:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite book ever about being a new mom.  It's hilarious at times and makes you cry in the next breath.  Totally honest look at the trials, tribulations, and job of new motherhood.  I totally identified with the guilt the author felt about bringing a new baby into the family and displaci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52671160">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my most favorite book, writer, published person on the planet.  I can't believe I hadn't already added this book.  Catherine Newman is, probably, my greatest inspiration as a writer and a mother.  I love her dearly for the things she has taught me....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful and hilarious and straight-up account of being pregnant while raising a toddler.  I laughed out loud at least a dozen times, would read parts aloud to Bo -- both the funny ones and the ones that made me feel so, so sweet.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[interesting considering the author was in the same situation I'm in now.  I could appreciated her insight and self-deprecating humor as she dealt with her son and the neurosis of having a second child. ]]></body>
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