First-Time Parent: The Honest Guide to Coping Brilliantly and Staying Sane in Your Babys First Year

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 because?the 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.