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Never Too Busy for Books
How Motherhood Changes Reading Habits
By Catherine K. Enders Carlton
Megan Chen of McKinney, Texas, says she used to read a romance novel or mystery novel every two months before pregnancy. And now as a mother of two daughters, ages 1 and 2, she finds even less time to read for fun.
"I haven't bought too many books lately," says Chen, who works in insurance claims. "I am more interested in magazines because of the short stories and information I can read in a short amount of time. I like articles that will take less than 10 minutes to read."
She also found that she steered toward books about pregnancy and childbirth while pregnant and books about childrearing once her daughters were born. She liked books that broke down month-by-month what her daughter should weigh, what games to play and how much she should eat. Chen noted, however, that she found she did the majority of her reading when she was breastfeeding her children. "In fact that was a motivation for me tocontinue to breastfeed," she says.
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