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

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Forget unrealistic childcare manuals this is the book you really need to help you cope brilliantly with those first chaotic days and months ahead.
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. 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

Anticipating the questions and concerns of all new mothersWhy does my baby cry so much Will I ever lose all this weight Am I a bad parent becausethe book provides practical advice and level-headed reassurance. It addresses the needs of the baby and, very importantly, those of the parent during the first year of their babys life.

Contents include:

Starters orders the equipment and kit you really need, as opposed to what the department store tells you
Hello how to cope with the first few hours
Start coming home, bonding, how to survive the first few days
Sleep for everyone!
Cry why your baby cries, what to do, why you'll want to cry, too
Eat breastfeeding, supplemental feeding, moving to solids, nutrition
Grow baby's physical and mental development
Play yes, you two actually can have fun
Thrive health considerations for baby and parent
Live adapting to your new life, the changing mother-father relationship
Work coping with being at home and with going back to work
Also includes information on single parenting, and on adopted, multiple and special needs babies.

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

Reviews

A great book for any first-time mother. Sarah Beeny, TV property expert and mother of four.

An honest, down-to-earth guide. Mother and Baby

You can't go wrong with a book as comprehensive as First-Time Parent. Tidewater Parent

Eminently more friendly than most baby manuals. Sunday Express

Author Bio

Following a degree in English from Oxford University, Lucy Atkins established a career as a successful health journalist. She often contributes articles for the Guardian and is a literary critic for both the TLS and the Sunday Times. Her work has also appeared in the Times, the Telegraph, and Red magazine. Lucy has been a first-time parent, as well as a second- and third-time one. She lives with her family in Oxford.