Baby Shock [Paperback]

Baby Shock! is a great guide to seeing beyond your child and discovering your partner again.

For latest, up-to-date advice on becoming a new parent, see Baby Shock!

...a relationship survival guide for parents.

Do read Baby Shock!, a relationship survival guide for new parents.

A relationship guide from Relate for when children enter your lives

Babyshock! is for any parents who have forgotten what it's like to be a couple because their children have taken over their lives. The experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and caring for children are wonderful, but also put a great deal of pressure on a relationship. This book identifies the pressures and provides excellent practical and emotional strategies so that you can enjoy parenthood while also nurturing your own relationship with each other.

This immensely practical guide will help you:

- Create time for yourself

- Improve your sex life

- Manage the demands of work and family

- Work through disagreements and agree on how you will bring up the children

Packed with questionnaires, check lists and anecdotes, Babyshock! will help you keep your relationship alive and get the very best out of family life, together.

This book is for any couple who has forgotten what it's like to be a couple because their children have taken over their lives and conversation. Babyshock! recognises that the experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and caring for children, while enormously pleasurable, can also place huge strains on the parents' relationship.
Babyshock! draws on the expertise of Relate counsellors and explains how your relationship is affected from the first decision to try for a baby, through pregnancy, birth and babyhood, up to the stage of caring for toddlers and children.
Babyshock! can help you to remain aware of your own needs as a couple as your family responsibilities increase. With check lists, questionnaires and case histories, Babyshock! will help you keep your relationship alive, and get the best out of family life together.

After working with Good Housekeeping, Elizabeth Martyn became a freelance writer. She is the author of The Which? Guide to Getting Married. (20010730)