You and Your New Baby
A book which covers the first hours, weeks and months after birth, giving needed support. ‘Parents share their experiences about what having a baby is really like – a real plus. ’ Penelope Leach So many books cover the months of pregnancy in great detail or child development after birth. Few, however, offer new parents real practical support in the days and weeks following the birth. Many new mothers are suffering from health problems related to a difficult birth and all need reassurance and useful practical advice. The book deals with:• creating a routine • how to get a good night’s sleep and helping your baby sleep • nappy changing and other basics • sex after birth • nursing and first solids • play • bonding • postnatal depression • your needs as a couple In this book, new parents recount their experiences giving useful tips in excellent case studies. The text is designed with clear fact boxes and illustrations.
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You and Your New Baby
Anna McGrail
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NATIONAL CHILDBIRTH TRUST
GUIDE
Published by National Childbirth Trust Publishing
in collaboration with Thorsons
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Published by National Childbirth Trust Publishing,
25–27 High Street, Chesterton, Cambridge CB4 1ND, UK.
in collaboration with Thorsons
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© 1996 NCT Publishing
First published as Becoming a Family 1996
This edition 1998
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Illustrations: Jo Dennis.
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Contents
CHAPTER ONE – YOU AND YOUR NEWBORN
When things aren’t as you expected
CHAPTER TWO – LEARNING NEW SKILLS
CHAPTER FOUR – YOU AND YOUR PARTNER
CHAPTER FIVE – YOU AND THE WORLD
CHAPTER SIX – YOU AND THE FUTURE
CHAPTER SEVEN – BECOMING A FAMILY
THE NATIONAL CHILDBIRTH TRUST (NCT) offers information and support in pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood. We aim to give every parent the chance to make informed choices. We try to make sure that our services, activities and membership are fully accessible to everyone. Donations to support our work are welcome.
THE WORDS of the parents in this book have been drawn from the conversations and interviews I have had with parents over the past six years, eight months and twenty-five days. I can pinpoint this time so accurately as this was the date our son was born. No sooner had he arrived, than I was plunged from the relatively ordered world of singles and partners to the chaos of babies and families.
Being a parent is one of the most difficult and demanding jobs we will ever be asked to undertake. It is also one of the most rewarding. But steering a path between the difficulties to reach the rewards is sometimes harder than we would ever have dreamed possible.
Becoming a family is something most of us undertake as a couple, relying on the strength and support our partner can give. For some, choice and circumstances mean that we take the step alone, or carry most of the responsibility alone.
Nevertheless, whether you are with a partner or a lone parent, the way our society is structured, and the way the world works, means that a great deal of the shock of babies is borne by the mother. Very often the proud father can return to work, accept the congratulations, and get on with business as usual. It is the new mother who needs to negotiate her way around this new world … usually without a map.
