Baby on Board

"In Baby on Board, Dr Howard Chilton provides essential advice and explanations for parents, from the day of birth through the first months of babyhood. This accessible book includes reassuring medical information, a discussion of important issues that require parents' decisions, and a fascinating description of the evolutionary background to the needs of babies. Baby on Board demystifies baby's needs in an easy-to-read approach, debunks common myths, explores significant issues such as breastfeeding, circumcision, colic, immunisation, SIDS, postnatal depression and sleeping with your baby, provides insights into a baby's senses and what they can perceive, explains how babies lead their parents into becoming willing personal slaves, outlines a timetable of developments for baby's first year, shows how everyone can get enough sleep!"--Cover.