REVIEW: Your New Baby and Your Healthy Child by Doctor Miriam Stoppard

Chopsy Baby is reviewing… Your New Baby and Your Healthy Child, two books from the Trusted Advice series by Doctor Miriam Stoppard

Reviewed by…
Jen Smith

There are many books on the market about caring for your new baby and growing child. Doctor Miriam Stoppard has contributed many of these herself. But with free publications such as the Bounty Book being a useful source of information, hundreds of well-regarded internet sites and the usual glossy magazines, any new publication needs to be nothing short of excellent.

Revisiting her Trusted Advice series, Doctor Stoppard has updated the advice in line with new recommendations and research.

The books take a magazine style format but without the full page ads for washing powder and follow on milk getting in the way. Information is concise, easy to take in and gives you all the essential information very quickly.
 
Each contains fascinating facts all helping you to understand your baby’s needs. And, if you think you have it sussed because you are a second time mum think again. The book clearly identifies between the needs of baby girls and boys, such as their different behaviour traits, what makes them cry and importantly, how to arrange their nappy according to the direction of wee.

Your New Baby, covers everything you need to know in the first six months of your baby’s life. It is an ideal read during pregnancy to help you through the first front line months of parenting when there just won’t be time to read the books. Though the Department of Health issues a comprehensive guide for the birth to five years, this one is better in the early months because it condenses everything you need to know for the first six months into 96 readable pages.

Your Healthy Child is an ideal companion, taking you through common illnesses, complaints and diseases your child is likely to bring home from play settings in abundance. It is literally the best guide for 3am when your child is most likely to be ill and features the easy read words with the big pictures. It takes each medical situation, tells you how to deal with it and when to seek medical help.

Best of all…
Informative, concise, fast read.

Could improve…
Your Healthy Child does miss out how you are supposed to take a urine sample from a girl or boy aged anything from birth to three. This is something you only learn alone in the casualty department of the children’s hospital at 1am.

Basically…
A really great series of affordable books. Cheaper than a magazine subscription with the same useful information. Read them, use them, pass them on. 

You can buy from…

£5.99
Amazon