The first six weeks of a new baby can be terrifying. This practical guide, by an experienced midwife and a father of two, aims to comfort and inform. This book focuses on the pressure points that parents experience with a brand new baby: lack of confidence, tiredness, lost sleep, feeding, crying, health worries, cot death, colic, wind, bathing your baby, juggling home and work, looking after yourself, maintaining your relationship and sex life with your partner, getting your body back, setting realistic goals for yourself, postnatal depression, dealing with grandparents and much more.

Author Biography

Annette Briley qualified as a nurse in 1980 and then trained as a midwife. She has worked as a staff midwife, a labour ward sister, and a tutor of student nurses and other midwives. In 1997 she joined the Maternal and Feta Research Unit at Maidstone Hospital as a research midwife. She regularly writes and lectures in all aspects of midwifery and in married with three children. Tim Mungeam runs the charity, Parentalk, and is a father of two.