The Best Friends' Guide to Babies

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2011
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There's no magical formula for new mums, but The Best Friends' Guide to Babies can help you cope - laugh! When it comes to your new baby, everyone from Dr Spock to your mother-in-law has an armful of advice. But no one is delivering any tips on how you can care for yourself. Now, four-time delivery-room veteran Vicki Iovine answers your questions, calms you fears and cracks you up as only a friend can with straight advice and hilarious observations on: - Baby euphoria: is it a mind-altering drug? - `Partner? What partner?': taking care of the big baby as well as the little baby - `I want my old body back!': what you can fix and what you can't - The droning phenomenon: the inability to discuss anything but your baby for more than thirty seconds - Competitive mothering: coping with know-it-alls, finger pointers and others who try to `Out-Mum' you

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There's no magical formula for new mums, but The Best Friends' Guide to Babies can help you cope - laugh! When it comes to your new baby, everyone from Dr Spock to your mother-in-law has an armful of advice. But no one is delivering any tips on how you can care for yourself. Now, four-time delivery-room veteran Vicki Iovine answers your questions, calms you fears and cracks you up as only a friend can with straight advice and hilarious observations on: - Baby euphoria: is it a mind-altering drug? - `Partner? What partner?': taking care of the big baby as well as the little baby - `I want my old body back!': what you can fix and what you can't - The droning phenomenon: the inability to discuss anything but your baby for more than thirty seconds - Competitive mothering: coping with know-it-alls, finger pointers and others who try to `Out-Mum' you

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 17 Jan 2011
ISBN 10: 1408814269
ISBN 13: 9781408814260
Book Overview: Wise and witty advice on everything from coping with postnatal mood-swings to salvaging your sex life

Media Reviews

`The funny side of life with a newborn - great therapy on a weepy, sleep deprived day' * Pregnancy and Birth Magazine *
`Iovine and her gaggle of Best Friends are ready with reassuring and frequently irreverent advice' * Newsweek *

Author Bio

Vicki Iovine is the mother of four teenage children. Since the success of The Best Friends' Guide to Pregnancy, she has gone on to write several books in the Best Friends' Guide series, has lent her expertise in columns for the Los Angeles Times and Child magazine, and has served as a relationships correspondent for Redbook. She has also been a parenting correspondent on the Today show, Oprah, and The View. Vicki lives in Los Angeles with her children and husband, Jimmy Iovine.