Baby Love [antikvár]

Introduction Baby Love is the result of the many years I have spent talking to women about their babies. For twenty-five years my job as a child and family health nurse was to help them by providing the technical knowledge they needed to do the job, as well as to help them sort out the vast range of ideas about babycare that drives modern parents mad. All parenting information reflects the background, the qualifications and the professional experience of the person providing it. Baby Love reflects mine. Child and family health nursing is a broad, rather than a specialised, practice where the practitioner is there to see and help all-comers —mothers who breastfeed and those who wean; parents who wish to co-sleep and those who don't; parents who wish to 'wear' their babies twenty-four hours a day and those who don't; parents who use childcare and those who don't; mothers who wish to breastfeed for years and mothers who wish to wean at twelve months, parents for whom routine is important and parents for whom it is not; parents who found it all easy, parents who found it all difficult and so on. Then there are the babies. Some