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

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The First-Time Parent is on your side, and reassures that you can cope brilliantly with your new baby and your new life.

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.

Cry – why your baby cries, what to do, why you’ll want to cry, tooEat -breastfeeding, supplemental feeding, moving to solids, nutritionGrow – baby’s physical and mental developmentPlay – yes, you two actually can have funThrive – health considerations for baby and parentLive – adapting to your new life, the changing mother-father relationshipWork – coping with being at home and with going back to workAlso includes information on single parenting, and on adopted, multiple and special needs babies. 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. 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. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. This guide also includes information on single parenting, and on adopted, multiple and special needs babies.I'm unsure why mothers should read the entire book while fathers only read the snippets for them at the end of chapters. 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.

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For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. also it promotes a more relaxed and fun, for babies and parents, play-time approach rather than intellectual/over-stimulating one. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Contents the equipment and kit new parents really need, how to cope with the first few hours, coming home, bonding, how to survive the first few days, and sleeping.

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. Covered a lot of the bases, found the bullet point lists of steps to do in certain situations (baby can't sleep, baby struggles breastfeeding, baby is crying) really helpful. I began to read this in the last month of pregnancy as everything has suddenly become real and I realised I had NO CLUE what I was gonna do when my little person arrives. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.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). It’s a shame the author keeps switching referring to the baby as either “she” or “he” instead of just sticking to they/them.