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A researcher by training, I immediately ordered a short stack of books when I found out I was pregnant with my first child. For eight months, Heidi Murkoff’s classic What to Expect When You’re Expecting (Workman Publishing) sat on my kitchen table flanked with Laura Kelly Fanucci’s Everyday Sacrament: The Messy Grace of Parenting (Liturgical Press) and Lindsey Bliss’s The Doula’s Guide to Empowering Your Birth: A Complete Labor and Childbirth Companion for Parents to Be (Harvard Common Press). With my physical, spiritual, and mental bases covered, I sought one more literary avenue of preparation for new motherhood: Christia Spears Brown’s Parenting Beyond Pink and Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes (Ten Speed Press).