The Great Ormond Street New Baby & Child Care Book: The Essential Guide for Parents of Children Aged 0-5 - Softcover

Messenger, Maire; Hilton, Tessa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091852994 ISBN 13: 9780091852993

Publisher: Vermilion, 1997

Synopsis

A completely updated and re-designed edition of the bestselling guide, THE GREAT ORMOND STREET NEW BABY AND CHILD CARE BOOK covers everything you need to know on baby and child care - from planning a healthy pregnancy right through to caring for a five-year-old child. Produced in conjunction with and fully endorsed by the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, it draws on the expertise of the hospital's doctors, psychologists and other specialists to include: conception, pregnancy and birth; the new baby, feeding, sleep and child development; play, toilet training, relationships, illnesses and going into hospital. Illustrated throughout with over 150 colour illustrations, this is essential reading for anyone planning to have a baby or rearing a young family.

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Review:

You will be hard pressed to find a more comprehensive pregnancy and child-care book than this. At 640 pages of straight text, uncluttered by drawings or photographs, it will become a bible to be often consulted by those parents who like to get their teeth into a little bit more in- depth information than is usually offered by standard pregnancy books. Despite being wordy, the style is not dense; it remains very readable and can be read from start to finish--take a journey through your child's conception and early years--or dipped into using the index.

This book deals very much with the facts, and is valuable because of this. However, if you want to find out about the emotional side of pregnancy, or to have a more gentle overview, you could try Miriam Stoppard's New Parent; for a practical parent's guide try Penelope Leach's Your Baby and Child.

Nevertheless, this book is intensely interesting: a particular highlight is the table format into which child development milestones have been grouped, which form an easily consulted time-line reference to areas such as growth in play skills, motor skills, sight and so forth, which prove extremely useful for quick dips to find out where your child is at.

Great Ormond's Street's book is excellent value for money, complete and comprehensive and trustworthy in its advice. To sum up: if it matters, it's in here! --Alison Jardine

Book Description:

A revised edition of the comprehensive and authoritative guide to childcare from pre-pregnancy to five years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vermilion
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0091852994
• ISBN 13: 9780091852993
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640