I'm a New Big Sister: A Princess Polly book (Pirate Pete and Princess Polly)

We ordered a few books for our 4 year old daughter to prep for her baby brother's arrival. This book hits all of the right topics and is the ONLY book I found to show a mother breastfeeding! It shares in the excitement of baby's arrival, shows how big sister can be a helper, eludes to not all moments being happy (baby cries, and cries) but shows resolution, discusses how mom and dad go to the hospital for a few days while sister stays with grandma (this is very helpful for our situation, but I could see how it would not be relevant for those choosing home birth), and shows how mom and dad still love and play with big sister. Bonus - there is a button to hear baby giggle, which makes it slightly interactive. I watched read alongs for several books on Youtube to know if I liked the storyline and this was our favorite!

Sweet book and did get used but the sound button on the book never worked.

We purchased this as part of a 'big sister' present arranged for our 3 year old daughter on the birth of our second child, and it has gone down a storm partly because of the 'big sister' aspect and recognising new and changing things about our family life, but also because it makes a noise!!This is great if you are intending to breastfeed as it normalises breastfeeding without making it obvious or a song and dance about the decision which is how it should be.I do however think we might have given this to our daughter a little late, thank goodness we had bought a few other big sister/sibling books prior to this (it arrived the day before my delivery) as it spends a decent amount of time talking about mummy's tummy, packing for hospital and staying with grandparents before you get to the baby coming home bit.This is different to some other big sibling books which jump off with the baby already home and I wish I'd known this in advance as I would have switched a different book to the birth-day bag instead of this one.Overall, this is an excellent book for a toddler/preschooler girl about to become a big sister, in retrospect I would introduce this some point from 32 weeks onwards so it prepares for changes and sets expectations of what may happen when the baby is born and comes home rather than as a gift after the birth.

we absolutely love this book anyone got a little girl and expecting I would definitely recommend this book it normalises brestfeeding, it explains why mum and dad are at the hospital that princess Polly will be staying with her grandma overall think it's a really good book I read it with my little girl and and I explained that she will be staying with family members why Mummy and Daddy goes to the hospital to have baby Jones. I also love the facts that you dont know the babies sex in the book. For someone who isn't finding out the sex of the baby this really appeal to me. also the noise button is pretty cute but but if people find it annoying you can turn it off at the back but personally I loved it

This is the best book of its kind that I could find. Suited if you have a toddler daughter and any gender for your second child, as it is unisex / gender neutral as regards the new brother/sister (as it only refers to "the baby"). It's cute and quirky and covers all you need - a little bit before the birth and then the rest after the birth. Also one of the few books that includes a breastfeeding mother, but it is in a nice, subtle, brief way. Recommend.

Fab little book illustrating mum getting bag packed and going to hospital to have baby, Polly staying with grandma for a few days before baby comes home, as well as demonstrating baby having a feed, bath, getting dressed and crying. My nearly 3 yo connected with it well and was then asking question or adding comments about waiting for her baby sister to come. Baby not due for a few weeks but definitely think we brought at right time when I too am packing hospital bag and getting ready for arrival.

We really loved this, we enjoyed reading it at bed times with our daughter when our son was born, it goes through the whole process, so mummy and daddy going to the hospital so she has to stay with Grandma and Grandad for a couple of days (which is what she did) then there's a picture of mummy breastfeeding, it goes through why sometimes babies cry, changing its nappy etc. It's really good. We loved it