First-time Parent - Atkins Lucy - diskuze

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 mothers–Why 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 baby’s life.Contents include:Starter’s orders – the equipment and kit you really need, as opposed to what the department store tells youHello – how to cope with the first few hoursStart – coming home, bonding, how to survive the first few daysSleep – for everyone!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 co
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