The Great Ormond Street Book of Baby and Child Care

by Maire Messenger (Author), Tessa Hilton (Author), Jill Black (Editor)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1991

  $3.25

  Produced with the co-operation of the world's most famous children's hospital, backed up by the expertise of Great Ormond Street's doctors, psychologists and other specialists, it presents in a single volume conception, pregnancy and birth (including genetic concerns, problems of pregnancy and labour, ways of making everything easier and safer for the baby and parents); the new baby (including caring for both normal babies and babies needing special attention); feeding (all about breast feeding and bottle feeding, how to wean, eating problems, advice on diet for the under-fives); sleep and sleep problems, and the baby who won't stop crying; child development (including physical growth and how speech and the senses develop); plus sections on play, toilet training, relationships with other children and adults, doctors and medicines, illnesss (some common, some less so), going to hospital - and much more.