Babies For Beginners

First time parents are deluged with advice on how to look after their baby. Magazines, books, media, ante-natal classes, friends and family are full of what to do and what equipment to buy. Babies for Beginners is the antidote to all this. It's a pared down guide to the absolute essentials you need to know, along with what you can manage without. Its humour and honesty take the stress out of the responsibility of looking after a new baby, and the step-by-step guides make everything, from soothing the baby to changing its nappy, easy and straightforward. This book cuts away the crap - the unnecessary equipment, the overfussy advice - and gives you the absolute basics of babycare: keep the baby alive at all costs, and try to stop it getting too hungry. From bedtime to bathtime, mealtime to playtime, Babies for Beginners highlights the core objective of each exercise (such as get the baby bathed) and the key focus (don't drown it). By exploding the myths around each aspect of babycare, the book explains which bits of each exercise are really necessary, and which are luxuries; which pieces of equipment are essential, and which you can do without.