The up-to-date lowdown on pregnancy, birth and coping when you first get home. No bossy-boots rules, just lots of cartoons and the soundest, sanest, wittiest advice you'll ever get. Everything you need to know about the scary parts, the funny parts and your private parts.                                  

Australian, authoritative and totally up-to-date, Baby Love is the only book you'll need to guide you through your baby's first year. With expert advice for the first 12 months of every baby's life and full of Robin Barker's wisdom and humour, this classic guide has been fully revised, including new material on nutrition, food allergy and intolerance, and updates on safe sleeping, breastfeeding, reflux and immunisation.


Author Biography: Robin Barker's other books include Baby and Toddler Meals and The Mighty Toddler.                                            

From the bestselling author of Baby Love comes The Mighty Toddler, Robin Barker's guide for the toddler years of one, two and three. It includes key milestones for each age group; a complete ABC of toddler behaviour and responses; a guide to day-to-day toddler care; explanations about toddler health, medical conditions and illnesses; and Robin's down-to-earth advice on how to keep your life on track! Revised to include information on potty training, swimming, personal safety, food allergies and intolerances.                                  

Gina Ford's bestselling The Contented Little Baby Book established Gina as one of the UK's most influential voices in baby and childcare issues. Her groundbreaking routines have been the salvation of hundreds of thousands of parents and her sound advice on weaning and sleep has guaranteed contented little babies in households around the world. In The Contented Baby's First Year Gina takes you through your baby's first year in a month-by-month guide. From physical and mental development through to changes in feeding and sleeping patterns, this wonderful book is packed with practical advice. There's information here on soothing, breastfeeding, weaning and bathing your baby together with suggestions for encouraging key developmental milestones: holding a toy, rolling over, sitting up and crawling. Additionally, for each month there is a handy Q&A that offers reassuring solutions to particular problems that can occur at each stage in your baby's development. Beautifully illustrated with stunning photography, including step-by-step guides to caring for your little one, The Contented Baby's First Year is essential reading for guaranteeing a contented little baby in year one.

Author Biography: Gina Ford is Britain's bestselling childcare author whose first publication The Contented Little Baby has sold over a million copies and keeps going! With over thirty years hands-on experience as a maternity nurse, her advice and methods have been a godsend to tired, stressed parents throughout the world and have helped a generation of children go to bed on time and sleep calmly through the night. She runs a hugely popular website: www.contentedbaby.com and has published over twenty parenting books.                                            

Everything new parents need to know about the care and feeding of an infant, from the authors of What to Expect When You're Expecting. The book covers monthly growth and development, feeding for every age and stage, and sleep strategies that really work. Murkoff and Hathaway have rewritten every section of the book, answering dozens of new questions and including new by-demand material. Filled with the most practical tips: how to give a bath; decode your baby's crying; what to buy for your baby; and when to return to work; and the most up-to-date medical advice with the latest on vaccines, vitamins, illnesses, SIDS, safety, and more.                                  

A revised and updated version of this bestselling pregnancy book, for a new generation of expectant mums. It incorporates the most recent developments in obstetrics and addresses current lifestyle trends, from tattooing and belly piercing to Botox and aromatherapy. There's more on pregnancy matters practical (including an expanded section on workplace concerns), physical (with more symptoms, more solutions), emotional (advice on riding the mood roller coaster), nutritional (from low-carb to vegan, from junk food-dependent to caffeine-addicted), and sexual (what's hot and what's not in pregnant lovemaking), as well as much more support for that very important partner in parenting, the dad-to-be.                                  

Now you have a baby, what on earth are you going to do with it? Kaz Cooke delivers all the up-to-date, reliable info, with advice from the experts, including real mums and dads. Kidwrangling is funny, reassuring and practical - a range of great solutions for you to choose from. Babies: getting through the first weeks; bosoms and bottles, sleeping and crying; coping, bonding and the blues; new mum and newborn health and mum's post-baby body; first food, teething and dummies; equipment. Toddlers and Preschoolers: family food and using the loo; child care, teaching kids how to behave and getting ready for school; dealing with common illnesses. Plus: emotional and physical development 0 to 5; immunisation, safety and travel; what dads need to know; birthday parties and presents; games, toys and activities; being at home or doing paid work; best ever lists of helplines and other contacts.

Author Biography: Kaz Cooke is the author of Up the Duff, Kidwrangling, The Little Book of Stress, Real Gorgeous, and Living with Crazy Buttocks.                                            

How the French tame their babies, raise 'sage' kids and have a life! What parent hasn't noticed, on visiting France, how well-behaved French children are - compared to our own?

·French children don't throw food and aren't fussy about what they eat
·They will happily and quietly sit through long lunches in restaurants
·They don't throw screaming tantrums in the supermarket
·French children go to bed without making a fuss

What is the secret behind the French style of parenting?  And how do young French mothers manage to continue looking so cool and sexy? Pamela Druckerman, who lives in Paris with three young children, has had years of observing her French friends and neighbours, and is ideally placed to give us the answers, and with wit and style, teach us the basics of parenting a la Francaise.

Babies. Some of us want one. Some of us already have one. And some of us even were one. But what are 'babies,' exactly? Are they really tiny people? How did they get inside larger people? How will they get out? And if you've got one, what do you do with it? Our most cutting-edge scientific researchers have, to date, only mumbled theories and then distracted us all with shadow puppets and obscene limericks. But no more! Alice Bradley and Eden Kennedy are here to shed light on this heretofore unlightsheddable topic. In this comprehensive, no-facts-are-too-disgusting guide, they answer age-old baby related questions, as well as newer ones they made up. In "Let's Panic About Babies!", you'll find answers to such queries as 'How can I be sure I'm pregnant?' (torso swells gradually until baby falls out into underpants), 'Why am I so uncomfortable?' (uterine goblins exacting karmic revenge) and 'Did I just pee myself?' (yes). And because Alice and Eden realize that the baby will continue to present challenges even after its birth, they've tacked on more chapters specifically written to soak up all the tears you'll shed during your baby's first year! So if you're wondering how to use phrenology to make ensure that your child won't be some sort of mercenary or television executive, or whether your obsessive vacuuming indicates postpartum depression or merely a vacuuming fetish, wonder no more. Or, rather, continue to wonder up until the moment that you read this book. Then and only then can you stop wondering, for you will have the answers, and all your wondering will just start to annoy people.