Bawling to Crawling

By Denise James

Have you just had a baby? Are you expecting a baby? If so this book will provide you with simple practical guidance and is guaranteed to make you smile. This ‘easy to read’ and fun book will guide you through the early days with your baby. The humour of the novice family portrayed will entertain and amuse you as you grapple with all that comes with your new arrival. Early years with your children are invariably some of the happiest of your life but they can be challenging too. This essential read is easy to follow, entertaining and packed with ideas to assist all new parents enjoy family life. Equally, if you are coping alone, this book will guide you on the best way to look after yourself as you enjoy your baby.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Denise James
• Release date: Dec 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310948329

Denise James

Bawling to Crawling is authored by Denise James and Judith Culpin.Denise and Judith are practising health visitors. They have both enjoyed a career in nursing with wide-ranging and differing interests.Denise has nursed in America and the UK and spent many years as a senior lecturer in nursing with a particular interest in palliative care. After some years of hospice work she returned to her love of babies to practice as a health visitor.Judith too has worked in America and enjoyed her early career as an adult nurse before training as a neonatal intensive care nurse.Denise and Judith worked together as health visitors for ten years and observed that all parents seek the same advice, especially in the early days of coping with a new baby.Denise lives in Northamptonshire, England and has two grown up sons.Judith lives in Bedfordshire, England with her husband and two teenage children.

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Bawling to Crawling

A simple and humorous guide to babyhood for all new parents

by Denise James and Judith Culpin

Illustrations by Ray Coles

Bawling to Crawling

Copyright © 2015 by Denise James, Judith Culpin, Ray Coles.

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First Edition

Although the advice given in this book, is provided by two healthcare professionals, it is intended as a supplement rather than substitute to advice from your doctor or other medical practitioner.

For George, William, Lottie and Toby.

With thanks to Rosie Rushton and Morgen Bailey

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One – Having a bawl… how to soothe a crying baby.

Chapter Two – Breastfeeding without the equipment… breastfeeding for men.

Chapter Three – Breastfeeding with the equipment… breastfeeding for women.

Chapter Four – Finding the time… what about ‘you and me’?

Chapter Five – And then there were three… is sex still on the agenda?

Chapter Six – Baby gain, pocket strain… financial management after a baby.

And finally… On a more serious note

About the authors: Denise James and Judith Culpin

Denise and Judith are practising health visitors. They have both enjoyed a career in nursing with wide-ranging and differing interests.

Denise has nursed in America and the UK and spent many years as a senior lecturer in nursing with a particular interest in palliative care. After some years of hospice work she returned to her love of babies to practice as a health visitor.

Judith too has worked in America and enjoyed her early career as an adult nurse before training as a neonatal intensive care nurse.

Denise and Judith worked together as health visitors for ten years and observed that all parents seek the same advice, especially in the early days of coping with a new baby.

Denise lives in Northamptonshire, England and has two grown up sons.

Judith lives in Bedfordshire, England with her husband and two teenage children.

Introduction

Have you just had a baby? Are you expecting a baby? If so this book will provide you with simple practical guidance and is guaranteed to make you smile. This ‘easy to read’ and fun book will guide you through the early days with your baby. The humour of the novice family portrayed will entertain and amuse you as you grapple with all that comes with your new arrival. Early years with your children are invariably some of the happiest of your life but they can be challenging too. This essential read is easy to follow, entertaining and packed with ideas to assist all new parents enjoy family life. Equally, if you are coping alone, this book will guide you on the best way to look after yourself as you enjoy your baby.

The arrival of your new infant will mean that you will rapidly become an expert on all aspects of childcare. Children become the centre of our world and somewhere in it all ‘we as parents’ need to hold on to our own sense of identity. There is a vast amount of information available, specifically advising on baby care and largely it is aimed at mothers. There is much less information for fathers and how their lives might change and what they can do to help and enjoy early family life. This book unashamedly looks to parents and how you can enjoy your new world with your baby and the importance of dads in the whole process.

New parents are often too busy to voice some of their hidden concerns about how their individuality may be consumed by this new encounter of parenthood. Happy children depend on happy parents and this book will help pave your new parental journey with humour! Finding time for one another after a baby, managing a crying