First Time Parents (Dorling Kindersley Health Care) - Softcover

Miriam Stoppard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751304492 ISBN 13: 9780751304497

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley, 1990

Synopsis

Advice is given on how to maintain a relationship and cope with the demands of parenthood along with the concerns of the working mother, house husbands, single parents and adoptive parents. A guide which covers the planning for a baby, pregnancy and birth as well as the first year of a baby's life.

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Review

Dr. Miriam Stoppard is one of Britain's best-known childcare and health experts, and the American edition of The New Parent is bound to please an eager readership. Like so many books from DK Publishing, this Essential Guide for All First-Time Mothers and Fathers is a delight to the eyes. A large but not unwieldy hardcover, it is simply much more elegantly designed than most books in the parenting genre. Color photographs and top-quality charts and diagrams set off text that has been grouped into useful, easily digestible chunks. Topics on every new parent's mind are featured in double-page spreads with titles such as "What Happens in Labor," "The First Day," "Breastfeeding," and "Emergency First Aid," accompanied by well laid-out information on a baby's physical, emotional, and cognitive development through the first year. At times, the text may be a little too simplistic, and there are heftier parenting titles that carry more detailed information. The publishers may also have underestimated the jarring effect of inserting American text into a British book as a means of creating the U.S. edition. Essential information--for example, on maternity rights--has of course been rewritten entirely for the U.S. audience, but some recommendations, such as when to start giving solid food, are sharply different from standard American practice. And besides, American strollers just don't look like that! Nonetheless, The New Parent is a useful introductory book for parents expecting their first baby. --Richard Farr

About the Author

Dr. Miriam Stoppard is Britain's best-selling pregnancy and childcare author with UK sales of over 2.2 million copies alone. She has appeared on television and has published more than fifty books on childcare and development, fitness and diet and women's health, including Conception, Pregnancy and Birth, Baby and Child Health Care, You and Your Toddler and Your New Baby.In 1998 she was made Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in recognition of her work promoting healthcare information. She lives in London and is a parent and grandparent.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0751304492
• ISBN 13: 9780751304497
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168