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Much has been written about what to expect of your child in the first year of its life, how to tame toddlers and raise children. In an age prone to overparenting, the time is right for the UK's largest online parenting organisation to put the emphasis back on a mother's needs. Often, the pressure to be the perfect mother can add to a mother's worries - especially first time around. Forget the Yummy Mummy phenomenon that says it's possible to look after a newborn baby, keep your house spic and span, cook gourmet family dinners, and still manage to put your lipstick and heels on. Life isn't really like that. This practical handbook looks at the elements of parenting that can make a mother unhappy and offers information and advice on how to cope. Most importantly this is real advice for real women from real women - the 250,000 members of netmums.com, together with advice from the experts.

So you've made it through nine months of pregnancy and the birth itself. You're mum to a new baby. Congratulations! But while the first year of your baby's life brings much joy, it can also be a testing time. Chances are you'll have lots of questions about your new baby. With peer-to-peer guidance and tips from the members of Netmums plus key medical and developmental information from the experts, BABY'S FIRST YEAR has all the answers. Structured as a month-by-month guide, BABY'S FIRST YEAR offers advice on subjects from breastfeeding to sleep routines, from teething to baby-proofing your home. It tells you what you can expect at each stage of your child's development and how best to deal with any concerns you might have along the way. Helping you to make the most of what is both a challenging and wonderful time, BABY'S FIRST YEAR is an indispensable bible for the first crucial months of your baby's life.

BABY SLEEP SOLUTIONS addresses one of the most vexing areas that any parent can face - trying to get their baby to go to sleep easily and to sleep for longer periods as they get older. There''s no such thing as a ''one-size-fits-all'' theory and BABY SLEEP SOLUTIONS will provide readers with information about the many different approaches that can help a child get a good night''s sleep, from controlled crying methods, through gentler methods such as fading, to the baby-led approach of co-sleeping. The book weighs up the pros and cons of each, and most importantly helps parents to decide which method will best suit them and their child. With chapters on each phase of a baby''s life until the age of two, this book is the only book on sleep a new parent should need.

How much time should your child be spending on the computer? How and when should you approach the subject of sex? How do you help them deal with rejection, rivalry and bullying? YOU AND YOUR TWEEN answers all these questions and many more. A comprehensive guide to the challenging years of early adolescence, this book offers advice from a hand-selected panel of experts on everything from education to puberty. But, crucially, there are hundreds of top tips and suggestions from other mums - the members of netmums.com, the rapidly growing online community of mothers sharing valuable information on all aspects of childcare. It''s real advice that really works and will help you maintain a healthy relationship with your child through the tricky tween years.

How do I pick him up? Is it OK to bring her into bed with me? Is it OK to give him a dummy? When will she sleep through? When should I start weaning? When will she start crawling? How do I make a start on solids? When will he start talking? When should I start potty training? So many questions for mothers of babies and toddlers - but all the answers are in THE ULTIMATE BABY & TODDLER Q&A, a comprehensive and accessible handbook from Netmums, the fastest-growing online parents'' organisation in the UK. This indispensable guide includes hundreds of top tips and suggestions from other mums - it''s real advice that really works from real mums who have experienced what you''re going through.

Congratulations - you''re pregnant. Once the initial excitement settles, chances are you''ll have a thousand and one niggling questions you''ll want answered and, given your unpredictable hormones, answered right now - from what''s going to happen to your body over the 280 days of pregnancy to the key details of your child''s development in the womb and all the stuff the doctors, and your friends, simply don''t tell you. Help is at hand. YOUR PREGNANCY provides sound medical information, sourced from the experts, alongside the indispensable opinions of the Netmums members themselves, whose mum-to-mum insights, tips and advice will make you feel as though you have your very own antenatal group in the comfort of your own home. This is the only book you need to guide you through pregnancy, birth and into new motherhood.

So you''ve made it through nine months of pregnancy and the birth itself. You''re mum to a new baby. Congratulations! But while the first year of your baby''s life brings much joy, it can also be a testing time. Chances are you''ll have lots of questions about your new baby. With peer-to-peer guidance and tips from the members of Netmums plus key medical and developmental information from the experts, BABY''S FIRST YEAR has all the answers. Structured as a month-by-month guide, BABY''S FIRST YEAR offers advice on subjects from breastfeeding to sleep routines, from teething to baby-proofing your home. It tells you what you can expect at each stage of your child''s development and how best to deal with any concerns you might have along the way. Helping you to make the most of what is both a challenging and wonderful time, BABY''S FIRST YEAR is an indispensable bible for the first crucial months of your baby''s life.

How do you avoid pyjama dramas and get a toddler to play ball at bedtime? How do you manage your child''s time on the computer and kids who are couch potatoes? What do you do when your five year old starts telling lies? All the answers can be found in this comprehensive guide to coping with the challenges of childhood. A hand-selected panel of experts ranging from dentists to psychologists provide scholarly advice. But, crucially, there are hundreds of top tips and suggestions from other mums - the members of netmums.com, the rapidly-growing online community of mothers sharing valuable information on all aspects of childcare. It''s real advice for real women, and is guaranteed to put the fun back into family life.