Book Recommendations 1 and 2

Your Baby Week by Week: The Ultimate Guide to Caring for Your New Baby
by Caroline Fertleman, Dr. Simone Cave (2007) Vermilion.

I loved their description of a baby as it reaches week 12: ‘Three months marks the unofficial rite of passage when your baby is no longer a helpless little creature. Instead of craving a recreation of his womb environment, he embraces the outside world and becomes a bouncing, gurgling flirt whose sole purpose appears to be to befriend everyone he sees.’

Can’t believe how soon we reached the last chapter – week 24 which was Saturday. It seemed to take for ages to get to my 20week scan when we were told everything was ok but Jamie getting to 20 weeks seems to have happened in a flash!!

First Aid for Babies and Children Fast (2006) Dr Vivien J Armstrong, in association with the British Red Cross www.redcross.org.uk Dorling Kindersley Ltd.

Bought myself this the other week after a talk at my baby group and it being recommended. Reading it made me panic about all the things that could go wrong and made me wonder would I be able to cope? But then I think that I don’t know of many babies / children who have had accidents as described in the book and I have every faith in the ambulance service that they would get to me and sort us out…..

I did learn that in an emergency; and especially in the cases of heat exhaustion, fainting, internal bleeding and shock, to keep your child’s legs above the level of their heart as this improves the blood flow to their brain. About the only time the legs need to be below the heart are if the child is bitten by a snake - not likely around here....

The book also gave me a list of things that I should have in my medicine cabinet in case of emergency such as sterile dressings, bandages, adhesive tape, chamomile lotion….

Reading it made me glad we live in a bungalow!!