# First-Time Parent

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- Authors: [Lucy Atkins](https://www.bookquiver.com/lucy-atkins)
- Publisher: Collins
- ISBN: 978-00-0726-944-0
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2009-04-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 considerations for baby and parentLive – adapting to your new life, the changing mother-father relationshipWork – coping with being at home and with going back to workAlso includes information on single parenting, and on adopted, multiple and special needs babies. The First-Time Parent is on your side, and reassures that you can cope brilliantly with your new baby and your new life.