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Books for the "fourth trimester".
Breastfeeding Your Baby: Revised EditionBreastfeeding Your Baby: Revised Edition by Sheila Kitzinger
Buy used from: £3.09
Will make you feel marvellous. Excellent illustrations to help with positioning, and talks you through the whole breastfeeding experience.
Breastfeeding: The Essential GuideBreastfeeding: The Essential Guide by Sharon Trotter
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.61
Why not give this short, handy book to your partner to read? It might even encourage them to do the housework while you're recovering from the birth and trying to establish breastfeeding!
The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age TwoThe Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two by William Sears
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £5.95
Excellent. This one is written in UK English (dummies not pacifiers, nappies not diapers)! A wonderful book about making the most of your baby.
The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night (Pantley)The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night (Pantley) by Elizabeth Pantley
Buy new: £4.09 / Used from: £2.92
Okay, the style is a little bit "worthy" but full of useful ideas and repostes to those who tell you "my baby was a Gina Ford baby and slept twelve hours from week 10", etc.
What Mothers Do: Especially When it Looks Like Nothing: Especially When It Looks Like NothingWhat Mothers Do: Especially When it Looks Like Nothing: Especially When It Looks Like Nothing by Naomi Stadlen
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.53
Should be available to all new Mums on prescription. Gives you the words to tell your dp/dh what you've been doing all day when you've got "nothing" done. Wonderful read.