Recommended baby care book?
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Topic: Recommended baby care book?
Posted By: Scoop
Subject: Recommended baby care book?
Date Posted: 30 June 2009 at 9:32pm
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Hi there
Can anyone recommend any good book(s) for first time parents? Is reference types best? or perhaps such books as the 'baby whisperer'? Thanks for your help :-) |
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Posted By: whitewave
Date Posted: 30 June 2009 at 10:20pm
| Try your local library, and get out heaps of them! That's what I did, and just read the parts of them that were good and applicable to me. Then if you find one of them really good, then you might like to buy one to keep as reference. |
Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 30 June 2009 at 10:35pm
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Baby Love by Robin Barker.
It has EVERYTHING. The index is great for looking up a particular question too. ------------- 
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Posted By: Ella1
Date Posted: 30 June 2009 at 11:26pm
| I really like Your baby & child, by Penelope Leach. They'll have it in the library. I picked up a copy on TM for only $10,-.(Be aware, it's quite heavy, you probably don't want to have it posted) |
Posted By: kiwisj
Date Posted: 01 July 2009 at 1:04am
I second the recommendation for Baby Love by Robin Barker. For general baby care it's fantastic, really does have everything. Definitely go have a look at your local library to see what kind of books you find interesting/easy to relate to. There is such a huge range  ------------- SJ Callum - Dec 2008 Daniel - Oct 2010 |
Posted By: SophiasMummy
Date Posted: 01 July 2009 at 4:37pm
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I loved Oh Baby by Kathy Fray. It was fantastic, covers all the baby stuff plus heaps of stuff about how you will feel post labour etc. She is quite straight to the point which i really liked. I can't rave about this book enough, I read the whole thing before Sophia was born and it was invaluable. Sophia is 8 months old now and I still won't loan it to anyone incase I need it!! Go have a look at the bookshop or library to see if you like it then have a look on TM. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: CarrieMum
Date Posted: 01 July 2009 at 7:58pm
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I agree that Baby Love by Robin Barker is great.
Also I quite liked Jo Frosts Confident Baby Care which is written by the Supernanny lady off TV. Its quite basic and great if you really don't have a clue!! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 01 July 2009 at 8:29pm
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Ditto- love this book. i got a couple of others out from the library, but this was the only baby book that I brought. ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
SophiasMummy wrote:Posted By: Scoop
Date Posted: 01 July 2009 at 9:43pm
awesome, thanks so much guys, i have searched our local libraries catalogue from the couch and all those books you've mentioned are in at the moment! So I will be off to the library first thing in the morning. Thanks again  ------------- #2 expected early Sep 2011! |
Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 02 July 2009 at 9:42am
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Yip, I love Confident Baby Care by Jo Frost. The best thing for me is that it goes in sections of age and also has activities that you can do with them as well as examples of routines and also talks about bottle feeding not just breast which is great if you end up bottle feeding for whatever reason. -------------  
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