Reviews of book related to birth and parenting
The Huge Changes Life with a new baby can be thrilling, amazing and truly wonderful. However, as new parents, it means a complete change in how life is and how you view everything. With that in mind, this huge change can have a knock on affect on how you are feeling, and subsequently how...
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This is not a how to book, rather a sit back and reflect book. It is about realising what has been forgotten in today’s society of how to books. It doesn’t really give direct answers to parenting decisions, but raises questions about the norm parenting techniques many of us employ with a bit of...
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I bought this book after borrowing a friend of mine’s copy. I found it really useful to help me feel that trusting my instincts instead of always trusting the advice of well meaning, but differently informed strangers or acquaintances. It offers a scientific basis to what it talks about, which appealed to me on...
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This book was a complete surprise to me. Judging this book by its cover would suggest that it isn’t the book for me, the picture, fonts and title had connotations of rules and things that I wouldn’t feel comfortable with. However, at my HypnoBirthing class we were shown the DVD of it, and I...
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A well written, beautifully illustrated book, littered with comical cartoons. This is actually a fully comprehensive, well researched book by a Breastfeeding Counsellor, about Breastfeeding, and many complementary parenting decisions that you may make. There are specific guidance supporting the early days of breastfeeding particularly, and ideas for troubleshooting difficulties and challenges along the...
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This book examines the benefits of sharing a bed with your baby. However, this book is so much more than that… it asks questions about accepted practice in modern civilised society related to parenthood, and uses back up of scientific research and other key books on the subject to critically evaluate the decisions many...
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This is my absolutely favourite all encompassing book about parenting. It goes from caring for your newborn baby, right through to the teenage years. I was drawn to it by my Amazon recommendations, and was certainly the brilliant buy that I was persuaded it was in the reviews. This book invites us to really...
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