Product Description

Annabel Karmel is known and trusted by millions of parents for her unrivalled advice on feeding babies and children. In association with Great Ormond Street Hospital, she puts her wide expertise and knowledge to use in a broader parenting arena, providing a comprehensive planner for you and your baby. Divided into clear, easy-to-find sections for pregnancy, 0-3 months, 4-6 months, 7-9 months and 10-12 months, Complete First Year Planner provides your optimum diet for pregnancy and ensures a healthy, happy, stress-free first year for you and your baby. With clear charts and tip boxes throughout, this is the book no parent can be without; packed with essential, at-a-glance planners, indispensable advice on feeding and superb recipes, crucial information on the practicalities, effective techniques to deal with crying and sleeping and easy methods to encourage your child's development.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2475 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 276 pages

Review
'She's a miracle woman', Jools Oliver .'the new mum's Delia Smith...Karmel's book is a good, jargon-free read with honest advice on care from pregnancy to your baby's first birthday (there are fab recipes too)', She .'a down-to-earth guide to all aspects of pregnancy, birth and babycare, for new parents during that critical first year...Annabel Karmel is THE leading expert', Prima Baby

Guardian
‘The Delia Smith of cooking for children’

Jools Oliver
"I used a book by Annabel Karmel. She's a miracle woman"

Customer Reviews

easy, full of information, practical and fantastic
I bought this book because I had a few pounds left before going back to France. I was 6 months pregnant and a bit lost. This book was a blessing.
It has almost everything one needs.
It is easy to use, with comprehensible and clear information.
It is divided logically and for each stage there are charts, which explain the different areas of the child's development.
It also contains a number of very tasty and easy recipes.
All in all, this book is packed with all sorts of information from how to change a nappy to the best foods to give ones baby. It has been a life savour and without it things would have been far more stressful.
What really makes it stick out from all the other books is that it is pleasant to flip through and the information is easy to find.
It is serious, practical and clear.
Thank you Annabel Karmel and keep on writing. I am looking forward to using your weaning and baby food books.

Easy to follow, informative and well written
As an expectant father, this was a book that I bought with my wife in preparation for our first child, and has proved to be a good source of information.

The book is split up into 5 chapters, for the different phases of the first year: Preparing for the birth, and then for each of the following quarters over the year, covering the differing sections with advice on practicalities, sleeping, crying, developing and feeding.

It gives advice in so many ways, not only directly with suggested recipes, but also things to look for when buying items such as chairs, cots, prams etc. At the end there is a list of useful addresses.

Overall the book is practical, useful, readable and very informative, that is well presented and clear.

The only book you'll need!
We were given this book 4 weeks after the birth of our first child and I only wish I'd been given it earlier. Forget about any other baby/pregnancy books - this book is brilliant. My husband and I have read it from cover to cover and it's well presented, up to date, clear, concise, good pictures, fun and so helpful. We're now looking forward to choosing our next Annabel Karmel book on weaning and baby foods.