The New Parent. The Essential Guide For All First-Time Mothers and Fathers

Miriam Stoppard

ISBN 10: 0751304492 / ISBN 13: 9780751304497

Published by Dorling Kindersley, London England, 1998

About this Item

Hardcover. First Edition. The New Parent. The Essential Guide For All First-Time Mothers and Fathers. Slight scratch to back cover. Corners slightly bumped. A lifeline of practical information and support for all first-time parents. Supporting each other through pregnancy. Choosing where to have your baby. Sharing the experience of birth. Bonding with your baby. Caring for your baby together. Surviving as a couple. Helping your baby to develop. Going back to work. Arranging child care. Enjoying life as a family. Illustrated. 168 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Parent. The Essential Guide For All First-Time Mothers and Fathers
• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley, London England
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0751304492
• ISBN 13: 9780751304497
• Binding: Decorative Illustrated Boards
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medical ,health, Self Help & Biology & Psychology

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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.

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