First-Time Parent: The honest guide to coping brilliantly and staying sane in your baby’s first year

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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.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.in addition it covers the relationship of the couple after birth and how dads can participate in baby's life and assist newly moms. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. Lucy's third novel The Night Visitor, has been optioned for television, Her new novel, Windmill Hill has been described as 'a triumph' by Philip Pullman. New moms and dads will also learn about the baby's crying, feeding their child, the baby's physical and mental development, health considerations for baby and parent, the changing mother-father relationship, and coping with being at home and with going back to work. I’m so glad I’ve read this book in my third trimester before the baby arrives- whether you can apply it all or an amount goes out the window- the reassurance of it right now is real.

Lucy has been a first-time parent - as well as a second- and third-time one - and currently lives with her family in Boston, USA. The edition I read it also very outdated (always refers to the partner as a “he” and assumes there is a partner) and has some incorrect information (such as old NHS guidelines).I found I already knew most of what was being said though, and it was more a case of verifying what I already knew.

It also has so much information for mothers, yet there are only tiny sections for fathers thrown in. I found that I had to force myself to read it because every time I did it made me feel sad and overwhelmed. The First-Time Parent is on your side, and reassures that you can cope brilliantly with your new baby and your new life.In particular I found the first couple of chapters, about looking after a newborn, very useful and reassuring, since I was clueless. Covered a lot of the bases, found the bullet point lists of steps to do in certain situations (baby can't sleep, baby struggles breastfeeding, baby is crying) really helpful. also it promotes a more relaxed and fun, for babies and parents, play-time approach rather than intellectual/over-stimulating one.