You and Your New Baby. Anna McGrail

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       Holding

       Bathing

       Changing

       Dressing

       Sleeping

       Feeding

       Wind

       Weaning

       Crying

       Teething

       Growing

       Playing

       Nursing

       Developmental disabilities

       Loving

       Smiling

       CHAPTER THREE – YOUR NEW SELF

       Recovery

       Debriefing

       Caesareans

       Stress and anger

       Feeling down

       Being yourself

       Self-image

       Sleep

       Nutrition

       Exercise

       Making time for yourself

       CHAPTER FOUR – YOU AND YOUR PARTNER

       Expectations

       Realities

       Role reversal

       Time

       Time for you as a couple

       Changes in your relationship

       Sex

       Difficulties

       Single parents

       CHAPTER FIVE – YOU AND THE WORLD

       Back home

       Getting about

       Balancing the budget

       Friends

       Boredom

       Relatives

       Experts

       CHAPTER SIX – YOU AND THE FUTURE

       You are now a parent

       Working

       Broadening horizons

       Picking up where we left off

       Protecting your child

       Looking forward

       CHAPTER SEVEN – BECOMING A FAMILY

       Ceremonies

       Assisted reproduction

       Adopting

       Step-parenting

       The next child

       Being a family

       DIRECTORY

       A chapter-by-chapter guide to support and information

       FURTHER READING

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

      THE NATIONAL CHILDBIRTH TRUST (NCT) offers information and support in pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood. We aim to give every parent the chance to make informed choices. We try to make sure that our services, activities and membership are fully accessible to everyone. Donations to support our work are welcome.

       Introduction

      THE WORDS of the parents in this book have been drawn from the conversations and interviews I have had with parents over the past six years, eight months and twenty-five days. I can pinpoint this time so accurately as this was the date our son was born. No sooner had he arrived, than I was plunged from the relatively ordered world of singles and partners to the chaos of babies and families.

      Being a parent is one of the most difficult and demanding jobs we will ever be asked to undertake. It is also one of the most rewarding. But steering a path between the difficulties to reach the rewards is sometimes harder than we would ever have dreamed possible.

      Becoming a family is something most of us undertake as a couple, relying on the strength and support our partner can give. For some, choice and circumstances mean that we take the step alone, or carry most of the responsibility alone.

      Nevertheless, whether you are with a partner or a lone parent, the way our society is structured, and the way the world works, means that a great deal of the shock of babies is borne by the mother. Very often the proud father can return to work, accept the congratulations, and get on with business as usual. It is the new mother who needs to negotiate her way around this new world … usually without СКАЧАТЬ