First-Time Parent: The honest guide to coping brilliantly and staying sane in your baby’s first year

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in addition it covers the relationship of the couple after birth and how dads can participate in baby's life and assist newly moms. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Powdered formula is not sterile so 70°C water from the kettle needs to be added to it, not "cooled boiled water from kettle" and then warmed to body temperature. Easy to read, like the realistic style and approach to 1st year of parenthood, lots of useful information and tips without getting too detailed but with lots of resources if you want to i.

Lucy has been a first-time parent - as well as a second- and third-time one - and currently lives with her family in Boston, USA.For me I found that this was sufficient in breast feeding and sleeping, but I wanted to read more on child-led weaning which it recommended).

Yes, I still feel clueless in many ways, but I am starting to accept that that is just the way I am feeling in the face of starting life as a mum as I worry about blanking out everything I read once baby is here and I am sleep deprived. Forget unrealistic childcare manuals - this is the book you really need to help you cope brilliantly with those first chaotic days and months ahead. Reading this I was able to find areas I wanted to delve into deeper which is why I feel that this is a great starting point for people to find areas they want to know more about.

This guide also includes information on single parenting, and on adopted, multiple and special needs babies.

I found that I had to force myself to read it because every time I did it made me feel sad and overwhelmed. The edition I read it also very outdated (always refers to the partner as a “he” and assumes there is a partner) and has some incorrect information (such as old NHS guidelines).

New moms and dads will also learn about the baby's crying, feeding their child, the baby's physical and mental development, health considerations for baby and parent, the changing mother-father relationship, and coping with being at home and with going back to work. I understand that mothers are the ones who tend to take the lead on childcare, but it would be more forward thinking to aim the whole book at both parents. I read most of it and found the down to earth common sense advice and insight useful to a fist time mum. I’m so glad I’ve read this book in my third trimester before the baby arrives- whether you can apply it all or an amount goes out the window- the reassurance of it right now is real. In her feisty, humorous style, she begins with that first mind-blowing day and addresses the issues unique to the first-time parent who stares at their newborn and thinks “Where are the instructions?

As a health journalist and mother-of-three, Lucy Atkins is familiar with both the medical aspects of childbirth and baby development, and the reality of day-to-day life as an exhausted first-time mum or dad. Forget unrealistic childcare manuals – this is the book you really need to help you cope brilliantly with those first chaotic days and months ahead. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. It’s a shame the author keeps switching referring to the baby as either “she” or “he” instead of just sticking to they/them.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. i also like that it covers the growing/developing stage by trimester rather than week by week or month by month which prevents you from comparing your baby to average and statistics and let it grow/develop at it's own pace.