The New Contented Little Baby Book: The Secret to Calm and Confident Parenting

Gina Ford

Jan 2012 · Random House

About this ebook

The Contented Little Baby Book, based on Gina Ford's personal experience of caring for over 300 babies, was first published in 1999. It quickly established Gina as an influential new authority on baby and childcare issues and has remained one of the bestselling parenting books in the UK.

This completely revised edition of The New Contented Little Baby Book contains the most up-to-date advice available to parents. Using the feedback from numerous readers and website members, Gina has been able to develop and elaborate on the information in her first book, while clearly setting out her philosophy on simple feeding and sleeping routines.

By creating routines that match a growing baby's innate natural rhythms, Gina prevents the hunger, overtiredness and colic that can lead to excessive crying. Babies who are settled into Gina's gentle routines are happy and contented because their needs for food and sleep are appropriately met and they should sleep for their longest spell at night from an early age.

With detailed, prescriptive information on everything parents need to know, this book includes chapters on:

- Preparation for the birth
- How the routines evolved and the benefits of following a routine
- Milk feeding in the first year
- Understanding your baby's sleep
- Establishing a routine
- Introducing solid food in line with government and World Health Authority guidelines
- Common problems in the first year.

Whether you are expecting your first child, or are experiencing difficulties with an older baby, this comprehensive guide contains all the expert guidance you need to help your baby feed and sleep well.

Ratings and reviews

Excellent book for practical advise about everything to do with baby i.e. sleeping, feeding, clothing etc. The book recommended sensible cost effective solutions regarding what to buy for baby that other magazines and people weren't offering realistic solutions for. The routine is strict but the Gina Ford doesn't say that you need to follow it to have a 'happy' baby but rather if you want your baby (and you) to sleep through the night, try this routine. For parents returning to work or people who simply want to experience sleep again, I would recommend this book. It may be tough initially to get into the routine but if you persevere, you'll reap the rewards.

Rubbish. If you want to suffer through your babies first months by all means go ahead and buy this stupidity. It's nothing more than a ridiculously strict timetable. Avoid. GINA GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK!

Currently doing it with our 4 week old baby girl. The 'strict timetable' is a guideline as such but I do appreciate her putting in eating times for the adults in the first few weeks as I genuinely would have forgotten. Little one is starting to sleep through the night - don't listen to the witch hunt. Read it yourself and see if it is for you and your family, but I love it!

About the author

Gina Ford is Britain's bestselling childcare author whose first publication The Contented Little Baby has sold over a million copies and keeps going! With over thirty years hands-on experience as a maternity nurse, her advice and methods have been a godsend to tired, stressed parents throughout the world and have helped a generation of children go to bed on time and sleep calmly through the night. She runs a hugely popular website: www.contentedbaby.com and has published over twenty parenting books.