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Bringing Up Baby: The New Mother's Companion [Hardcover]

Daisy Goodwin (Author)

3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Publication Date: 4 Oct 2007

From Dr Spock to Gina Ford every generation has had its childcare expert eager to pass on their advice about how best to bring up baby. Should we leave them to cry in a cot or sleep three in a bed? Should we feed on demand or only according to a strict routine? The advice can vary dramatically - and most parents agree leaves you at best flummoxed and at worst feeling a guilty failure.

This is the book all new parents really want. Written by a mother who tried to follow the advice herself, Daisy Goodwin shows how they can't all be right. With the benefit of real parents' wisdom, with wit, insight and empathy, she takes the reader through every maddening twist of the maze of experts' advice and is the oasis of sanity for all stressed new parents.

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This is the book all new parents really want. Written by a mother who tried to follow the advice herself, Daisy Goodwin shows how they can't all be right. With the benefit of real parents' wisdom, with wit, insight and empathy, she takes the reader through every maddening twist of the maze of experts' advice and is the oasis of sanity for all stressed new parents.

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (4 Oct 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0340936231
ISBN-13: 978-0340936238
Product Dimensions: 16.3 x 2.5 x 20.7 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 878,537 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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About the Author

Daisy Goodwin devised most of the nation's favourite lifestyle TV programmes, including How Clean Is Your House?, Jamie's Kitchen and Grand Designs.

She has just formed her own production company, Silver River Productions and recently presented the BBC series Reader, I Married Him.

The mother of two children, Daisy also finds time to dream up and edit poetry anthologies, including the bestseller 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This charming book helps put baby advice in context 21 Nov 2007

By Emma

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I like this book because it just proves that there is no single 'correct' way to bring up baby. Reading about the enormous number of contrasting theories and opinions put into practice at various times over the last hundred or so years was fascinating. Every new parent is inundated with advice about how they should approach the job and it's often hard not to feel inadequate. This useful collection, charmingly put together, shows a) that you should have faith in your own instincts, and b) how robust babies must be to have survived the likes of Truby King and Co.!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth reading 21 Oct 2007

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This isn't what I expected at all. The synopsis makes it sound much better that it really is. It is bascially full of page after page after page of extracts, quotes and what the other experts claim is the best way to bring up a baby and (in my opinion) very little is actually written by the author herself. I found it really boring to constantly read he said this and she said that and not a great deal else. I'm not really interested in what the baby care books were telling mothers a hundred years ago and some of the advice you read is actually rather sad (especially when you've got your precious newborn in your arms at the time!) Using gas and drugging babies to sleep with obvious consequences is not something I want to think about. I've only read about 3/4 of this book and I can't be bothered to waste my time reading any more of it. I've already wasted my money buying it in the first place!

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