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

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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.

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. 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.

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It’s a shame the author keeps switching referring to the baby as either “she” or “he” instead of just sticking to they/them. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed.

I found I already knew most of what was being said though, and it was more a case of verifying what I already knew.

Her last novel, MAGPIE LANE, a literary mystery set in an Oxford College, was chosen as a Book of the Year by the Guardian, The Telegraph, Good Housekeeping magazine and Radio 4's Open Book. It also has so much information for mothers, yet there are only tiny sections for fathers thrown in. 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.

Easy to read and understand, it has a relaxed tone throughout and helps the reader to feel simultaneously well-informed and less overwhelmed. I read most of it and found the down to earth common sense advice and insight useful to a fist time mum. also it promotes a more relaxed and fun, for babies and parents, play-time approach rather than intellectual/over-stimulating one. I found that I had to force myself to read it because every time I did it made me feel sad and overwhelmed.

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.

Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). 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. 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? Forget unrealistic childcare manuals - this is the book you really need to help you cope brilliantly with those first chaotic days and months ahead.