Product Description

The Rough Guide to Babies navigates you through a brand new world: Planet Baby. Life is different there - and this book will help you find your way. From the top 10 things to buy before you leave the hospital to fitting back into your pre-pregnancy jeans - this guide covers it all. There are detailed chapters on everthing from, getting through your first days at home and making the right feeding decisions to keeping an eye on your baby's development and coping with family relationships. Throughout the book there are personal and professional anecdotes from the people who know best including: new mothers and fathers, health visitors, paediatric nutritionists and many others. The guide takes an informative look at the latest baby debates, including information on the MMR and immunisation controversy. Each chapter concludes with details of reading lists for further information and support groups. Practical, witty and real, this Rough Guide is like having an experienced friend you can phone any time - even 3am!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5367 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

JUNIOR Pregnancy and Baby
Welcome combination of humour and real-life stories to ease your worries.

Irish Independent
Clever new publication...practical and witty.... Just the ticket for modern mums and dads to be.

The Sun
A brilliant and useful read that doesn't patronize the reader but
offers clear, honest facts.

Customer Reviews

Great 'new baby' book
I loved the tone which was supportive without being patronising, was sympathetic and at the same time very amusing. I felt like it tried to be unbiased and was good in helping me not to panic about the things that new mums panic about.

relevant, funny and real
If you liked the Rough Guide to Pregnancy (and even if you didn't) this is a great book. It's down to earth and real, and unlike loads of the baby books out there, geared for a UK market. Plus there are funny and reassuring reviews of all the other baby 'gurus' eg) Gina Ford, and stories from loads of real mothers and what they went through. More than anything else, it made me feel normal.

Fabulously reassuring
First baby has yet to arrive but already I feel much better about the prospect of being a parent. Have started reading a couple of other baby books, but this has been the only one that sounds as though it was written for me rather than a stepford wife.

The style of writing and the chapters make this very, very accessible - great for picking up in a spare 10 minutes for a chuckle and to learn something new. It is full of interesting information and facts, such as how to easily swaddle a baby, which I'm sure will come in handy. This is definately coming to the maternity ward with me.