{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "As a health journalist and mother-of-three, Lucy Atkins is familiar with both the medical aspects of childbirth and baby development, and the reality of day-to-day life as an exhausted first-time mum or dad. In her feisty, humorous style, she begins with that first mind-blowing day and addresses the issues unique to the first-time parent who stares at their newborn and thinks \"Where are the instructions?\"Anticipating the questions and concerns of all new mothers\u2013Why does my baby cry so much? Will I ever lose all this weight? Am I a bad parent because...?\u2013the book provides practical advice and level-headed reassurance. It addresses the needs of the baby and, very importantly, those of the parent during the first year of their baby's life. Contents include:Starter's orders \u2013 the equipment and kit you really need, as opposed to what the department store tells youHello \u2013 how to cope with the first few hoursStart \u2013 coming home, bonding, how to survive the first few daysSleep \u2013 for everyone!Cry \u2013 why your baby cries, what to do, why you'll want to cry, tooEat \u2013breastfeeding, supplemental feeding, moving to solids, nutritionGrow \u2013 baby's physical and mental development Play \u2013 yes, you two actually can have funThrive \u2013 health considerations for baby and parentLive \u2013 adapting to your new life, the changing mother-father relationshipWork \u2013 coping with being at home and with going back to workAlso includes information on single parenting, and on adopted, multiple and special needs babies.The First-Time Parent is on your side, and reassures that you can cope brilliantly with your new baby and your new life."}, "title": "First-time Parent", "covers": [9377842, 4935345], "first_publish_date": "October 1, 2006", "key": "/works/OL265397W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2624132A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Family & Relationships", "Nonfiction", "Parenting", "Infants, care and hygiene", "Child rearing"], "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-24T13:14:43.487239"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-12-17T06:07:40.438114"}}