Baby Instruction Manual

Somebody must have already thought of this and written a book -- especially with the number of self-help and DIY books around. Why not have one for raising a child too?

Maybe with a title like:

• Your baby day-by-day calendar (keep track of how old she is too!)
  
• The Baby Dictionary
• Babies for Dummies
• Others?

Even so, I think I know why I haven't seen any yet. It's either because I haven't looked (which is probably most of the explanation) or because a baby instruction manual would be pretty simple -- at least for a while:

• Chapter 1: Diapers
• Chapter 2: Diapers
• Chapter 3: Feeding for Mom
• Chapter 4: Diapers
• Chapter 5: Sleeping and how to get her to sleep
• Appendix A: Feeding for Dad

The second edition would just find more chapters on diapers ... and maybe crying. The collector's edition would have a preface from Mom about love, an epilogue from Dad about love, and probably a chapter or two about it too. :)