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.

About the author

Anna McGrail was postnatal support co-ordinator for her local Brighton branch of the NCT before going on to edit the branch newsletter and then to contribute to new Generation, the journal of the NCT. Anna now works as an editor of health and social services books and journals, and also writers: she won the Ian St James Fiction Award and her first novel, Blood Sisters, was published in 1995.