Your Baby Week by Week: The Ultimate Guide to Caring for Your New Baby - Caroline Fertleman

This book gives information on baby care and development (as well as caring for mum) from birth to six months. The big advanatage of the book is that it is split up week by week so there are only a few pages to read every week which makes it very manageable for a new parent. Furthermore each of the weekly chapters is split up into short section which makes it even easier to read as you don't lose your thread if interrupted. These sections are: Sleep Crying Feeding Nappies Washing Development and Playing When to see a Doctor What's Happening to Mum Planning Ahead I found the book very easy to read ...  Read the complete review

You may have recently read my review on the Gina Ford book which I found too restrictive to use for more than the first few weeks of having a new baby. This book by Simone Cave and Dr Caroline Fertleman was given to me by a good friend who had her own copy and had found it very useful and less strict than Gina Ford. The simplicity of this book is that it (as you may tell from the title) covers one week at a time from week 0!!! to week 26. The benefit of this is that there are only a few pages to read each week. Each week is split into sections which are relevant at that point, for example week 1 covers sleeping, feeding, crying and ...  Read the complete review

Before my son was born, I had had NO experience of babies whatsoever! So, I shopped around for a book relating to babycare, & plumped for this one. Even though I haven't read any other babycare books, I seriously doubt they come close to the brilliance of this one.... The book covers the first 6 months of babys life. The format is pleasingly simple, working through set topics week by week. Topics covered include sleeping, feeding, bathing, development, nappies etc. So, for example, feeding covers the amount of milk required each day, split into how many feeds etc (covering both breast & bottle feeding); nappies covers how many are normal in a ...  Read the complete review