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The Complete Book of Mother and Babycare

ELIZABETH FENWICK

Published by Dorling Kindersley HB

Provides step-by-step instructions on how to care for your baby. This title includes fresh photography and essential advice, tips and suggestions. It guides you through every stage of your pregnancy and beyond, up to the first three years of your baby's life. Clear, step-by-step photographs illustrate everything from postnatal checks to breastfeeding and nappy-changing. Plus, this will provide you with everything you need to recognize and treat common childhood illnesses and ailments. The Complete Book of Mother and Babycare was the first baby book to provide illustrated step-by-step instructions on how to care for your baby. Now it is fully revised and updated to include the latest in babycare guidelines and recommendations - from sleeping advice to postnatal recovery. Packed with new, fresh photography and essential advice, tips and suggestions, this guides you through every stage of your pregnancy and beyond, up to the first three years of your baby's life.

Elizabeth Fenwick is a mother and medical journalist with a particular interest in child health. She is a professional writer on health and family matters and has had books on health and childcare published. She also worked for three years as a counsellor for Childline and worked as an agony aunt on radio and for Company magazine.

Mother and Babycare books must be two a penny, surely? But a new Dorling Kindersley is always special, and this magnificent book is doubly special, because it guides young mums through the forty weeks of pregnancy and childbirth, and beyond, to bonding with and nurturing your newborn. Crammed with superb illustrations, photographs and diagrams, this is sensational stuff, nothing we didn't already know (those of us whose wives have already given birth) but told in the most amazing and beautiful way. Full marks to DK, this is one book every expectant mum should read. Stunning.

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