A Perfect Start
  • Published: 3 December 2007
  • ISBN: 9780091917425
  • Imprint: Vermilion
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $32.99
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A Perfect Start

Or coping with the first months of parenthood

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3 Dec 2007
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A completely revised and updated edition of You and Your New Baby - the perfect guide to helping new parents survive the early months of caring for a newborn baby, by ante-natal guru Christine Hill

For many parents the first few months after a baby's birth can be a time of shock and adjustment as well as personal joy. Fatigue, confusion and feelings of incompetence are as common as the delight and pride which are part of having a baby.

In this friendly, accessible guide, Christine and Peter Hill take over from where other pregnancy books stop and before baby books begin. They provide a vast amount of practical and down-to-earth guidance on:
- What to expect in hospital and afterwards at home
- How to cope with persistent crying
- Dealing with feelings of depression and isolation
- Looking after yourself as well as your baby
- How to maintain fulfilling relationships with parents and friends
- When and when not to return to work.

Drawing on the experiences of over 5,000 mothers - and fathers - with new babies, and now fully updated, this authoritative guide is both reassuring and fun to read.
  • Published: 3 December 2007
  • ISBN: 9780091917425
  • Imprint: Vermilion
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the authors

Peter Hill

Peter Hill is an artist and lecturer at the School of Art History and Theory at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. He is also an international art critic and his installation The Art Fair Murders, was at a Sydney Biennale.

Christine Hill

After qualifying in 1970, Christine took a postgraduate training in paediatrics and worked with babies and children for 10 years. She subsequently trained as an obstetric physiotherapist and qualified as a full member of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1981. Christine Hill is one of London's leading ante-natal gurus. She is much sought after professionally and has worked with over 5,000 new mothers. Christine's advice is positive, reassuring and fun to read. http://authorsplace.co.uk/christine-hill/

Praise for A Perfect Start

the perfect guide to your new life as a mum

Pregnancy and Birth

Bookshops are flooded with baby care bibles that can be sterile in style. The Hills add wit to the mix, in this down-to-earth book on the first months of parenthood...an accessible, fun guide

Junior Pregnancy and Baby

the ultimate baby guru; a no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is straight shooter who delivers both practical and medical advice with the wit of Victoria Wood

YOU magazine

Any expectant mothers feeling anxious and unprepared should consider enrolling for classes with Christine Hill... Christine is an obstetric physiotherapist with a concern for the apprehensions, fears and idiotic queries of first-time mothers. Every week more than 100 women pass through her classroom and she answers the same questions with reassurance, common sense and humour... it is packed with sane advice.

The Times