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First-Time Parent: The honest guide to coping brilliantly and staying sane in your baby’s first year
By (author) Lucy Atkins
    
        
             
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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 you Hello – how to cope with the first few hours Start – coming home, bonding, how to survive the first few days Sleep – for everyone! Cry – why your baby cries, what to do, why you'll want to cry, too Eat –breastfeeding, supplemental feeding, moving to solids, nutrition Grow – baby's physical and mental development Play – yes, you two actually can have fun Thrive – health considerations for baby and parent Live – adapting to your new life, the changing mother-father relationship Work – coping with being at home and with going back to work Also 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.
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Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers 
Published date | 4 Mar 2010 
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Pages | 224 
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ISBN | 978-0-0073-6106-9 
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BISAC | family & relationships / motherhood 
 
 
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            Carlo Rovelli
             
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Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).
 
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