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First-Time Parent


Author: Lucy Atkins
Pages: 224 pages
Year: 3 April 2006
Publisher: Collins
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First-Time Parent

For many first-time parents, staying calm, cool, and collected is one of the most difficult challenges presented aside from raising a small human being! Lucy Atkins, a mother of three and health journalist

knows the exact anxieties that all first-time parents face, which is why she wrote First-Time Parent (published by Collins). The book is a no-nonsense, straightforward take on learning to live, cope, and deal with the stresses of becoming a new parent

Staying sane throughout the first year of your child's life may not come easily to all new parents, which is why everyone with a new baby or a baby on the way for the first time should pick up a copy of First-Time Parent. Atkins does not claim to be an expert on pregnancy, child bearing, and birth, but more of an advisor when it comes to actually taking that kid home from the hospital. Her main goal throughout the text is more about providing a survival guide for parents through the first year of their baby's life.

First-Time Parent does an excellent job of helping new parents understand what is really important during that first year. Atkins reviews all sorts of things such as how to effectively feed the baby, shopping lists, and what's normal for the baby during the different stages. The author helps alleviate anxieties associated with crying habits, common illnesses, burping, napping, and developmental issues. The shopping pointers are especially helpful as Atkins does a wonderful job at separating what items are a great help to new parents and which ones are just a waste of money.

Atkins does not only focus on first-time birth parents throughout this guide, but also on single parenting, adoptive first-time parents, and even touching on the subject of bringing home babies with special needs. First-Time Parent helps every new parent learn to cope with balancing a baby, work, a marriage, and the emotional rollercoaster that accompanies the joys of parenthood.

When parents pick up a copy of First-Time Parent they will feel right at home flipping through the pages. By authoring this helpful book, Atkins has said good-bye to days of unrealistic child-rearing manuals that seem to be written like technical instructions and hello to parent-friendly childcare manuals. Atkins writes with so much honesty, wit, and humility that parents feel that she might as well be sitting with them for a spot of tea. With her book, Atkins is one of the few authors to have finally answered the prayers of first-time parents that often wonder, "Where are the instructions?!"