Fathers Books / Pregnancy information from midwivesonline.com
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Title: The Social Baby by Lynn Murray and Liz Andrews
Amazon Price: £10.49
Description
Babies are born with a full range of adult emotions, and have amazing abilities that have been studied and understood by academics for years. Most remarkable is their need, following delivery, to actively engage with their parents and other human faces. The Social Baby presents this information through clear text and hundreds of pictures, and is widely used by both parents and those who work with new babies. The book shows Ethan, minutes after delivery gazing intently at his mother's face, and the pleasure is clear to see. Within 15 minutes he studies his father's face, and even copies his facial expressions, before turning to the sound of his mother's voice. Parents benefit hugely from this knowledge, which helps the bonding process and, along with breastfeeding represents the very best start for a baby. The implications for thoughtful practice within the medical profession are clear.
The Social Baby shows that from birth, each baby is a unique individual with their own likes and dislikes, strengths and sensitivities. By carefully watching a baby, and learning the subtle cues and significance of behaviour, parents and others can become better able to provide the sensitive care that babies need.
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Title: Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect and Communicate with Your Baby by Tracy Hogg
Amazon Price: £7.69
Description
Overjoyed but exhausted? Perplexed but purring? Then you may just be a new parent. And if you're looking for practical reassurance and advice then Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect and Communicate with your Baby is for you.
Clearly a remarkable person, Tracy Hogg (the "baby whisperer") has an impressive ability to understand and relate to babies. Herself a mother, she is an experienced maternity nurse and has derived her approach from her dealings with countless babies and their families. Forgiving and sympathetic in style, her book is well written, immensely readable and is full of gems and shrewd observations that even the seasoned parent may not have worked out. She emphasises the importance of showing respect to your baby: "Just try to remember that this is a little human being in your arms, a person whose senses are alive, a tiny being who already knows your voice and even what you smell like." And so the parent is instructed to give the newly returned-home baby an explanatory commentary and friendly guided tour of his or her new home.
Those who enjoy personality quizzes will love the Know-Your-Baby Quiz in which you can "zero in" on your baby's type which, according to Ms Hogg could be "Angel", "Textbook", "Touchy", "Spirited" or "Grumpy". She then provides tips on the best way to handle each type of baby. Advocating a structured routine with the acronym EASY (Eat, Activity, Sleep, You) she then demonstrates how it works for the benefit of all the family. The book covers most topics from sex to weaning, but possibly the most helpful, even beautiful, section is where the Baby Whisperer divulges her secrets for interpreting your baby's body language, signals and cries.
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Title: The Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth by Jon Smith
Amazon Price: £7.19
Description
This book takes a 'warts and all' sensible yet humorous look at the many stages of pregnancy. It explores the changes, physical and emotional, that any man can expect to see in his partner and in their relationship over the coming months. Becoming pregnant involved two people. The rearing of a child will involve two people; there is every reason that your partner's pregnancy should also involve the two of you, together. For any man that has been put off reading pregnancy books because he doesn't feel he was the intended audience or that something about the tone of these books was alien to him, yet he still has questions that need answers; then The Blokes' Guide to: Pregnancy is the book he's been looking for. As a father himself, Jon Smith realized, when his partner Lisa became pregnant that there was nothing out there that he could relate to. The Bloke's Guide to Pregnancy is the result. Jon takes a comical yet informed look at the ups and downs of life as a father to be. Guaranteed to educate you while making you laugh out loud!
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Title: Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different - And How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-balanced Men Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different - And How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-balanced Men by Steve Biddulph
Amazon Price: £6.39
Description
This text argues that boys need to be parented in a different way from girls with their own very special psychological and physical make-up. Home, society and education have failed boys badly - and these failures lead to unhappy men who cannot fully become emotionally confident adults. The author, Steve Biddulph, goes on to assert that it is essential that boys spend more time learning about manhood from their fathers. Through the teen years a boy ideally needs a male mentor outside his immediate family to teach him the best way to live. Without these things boys can turn to alcohol, drugs and despair and fail to grow up into feeling, responsible adults. In this text, Biddulph provides advice on: the stages of boyhood; how a mother teaches about life and love; how schools need to change to be made a good place for boys; testosterone and how it changes behaviour; how to be a good father; and how to teach boys to have a caring attitude towards girls and sex.
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Title: Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
Amazon Price: £7.19
Description
It is argued that the story of Cain and Abel endures as an archetypal myth because it offers a glimpse into the emotional tinderbox of the adolescent male psyche. This text is a plea to give boys the emotional education they desperately need to navigate the maelstrom of adolesecence. It aims to provide parents with the hands-on tools they may need to raise sons who embody the best traditional attributes of maleness, but who also give a rich inner life, and deep, meaningful relationships with both women and men.
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Title: The No-cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night The No-cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night by Elizabeth Pantley
Amazon Price: £6.99
Description
Sleep is the one of the most-discussed topics among new parents - because they don't get enough. Most books on helping babies sleep fall into two categories: let them cry it out or simply live with getting up at night. Parent educator Elizabeth Pantley, author of Perfect Parenting, wasn't satisfied with either approach. Her method is based on research into sleep associations and has been tested and proven effective with her own child and a varied group of scores of mothers and babies from across the U.S., Canada, and even Europe. The method will appeal to parents because it does not involve leaving your child to cry himself to sleep. And best of all, it really works. The responses from the test group have been fabulous - children who had been waking up four and five times or more every night began to sleep through - with no crying. This is the long-sought-after answer for sleep-deprived parents who don't want to let their children cry themselves to sleep.
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Title: The Bloke's 100 Top Tips For Surviving Pregnancy by Jon Smith
Amazon Price: £5.99
Description
A follow on to the bestselling Blokes Guide to Pregnancy, this pocket bite size guide book has all the crucial advice for expectant blokes and outlines 100 absolute need to know tips for surviving pregnancy.
Written in his customary no nonsense, straightforward style - These 100 tips are taken from interviews with 100 blokes who have lived to tell the tale. This is the only guide to be reading for all expectant dads out there.
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DVD's and Videos
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Title: The Social Baby by
Amazon Price: £18.50
Description
Every baby is a unique individual from the moment of birth, with its own likes and dislikes. Only by being finely tuned to a baby's unique communication can an adult fully understand the baby and its needs.
The Social Baby is a new and innovative video which is based on established research about the development of infant communication. The video provides a window into the rich and complex social world of babies and looks at individual responses to voice, smell and sensitivity to the environment. The video supports parents and carers to manage crying by helping babies to calm themselves and also provides strategies for feeding and developing a consistent sleeping pattern.
The video is based on the book of the same name and uses footage filmed during the making of The Social Baby book.
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Title: Sing and Sign (Baby Signing the Fun Way) by
Amazon Price: £17.99
Description
Help your baby communicate before he or she is able to speak by following this action-songs programme. The results will lessen your babies frustration which will in turn make a more relaxed and confident mum.
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