In her most important book Sheila Kitzinger, the world’s leading expert on pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, provides the information and comforting support every woman needs to survive the physically, emotionally, and socially turbulent first year following the birth of a child. Time and again women say that they felt prepared for the birth, but not for what happened afterward. After all the attention that an expectant mother gets, she is often left to face this experience alone. For the new mother, the first twelve months are both a delight and an ordeal. The experiences she faces are at once disturbing, challenging, mundane, and exciting. Whatever the birth was like, and however she feels about her baby, there are unexpected problems to be solved, questions to be answered, and feelings to be shared. With over three hundred full-color photographs and drawings, here is everything a woman needs to know about this roller-coaster year. There is no shortage of baby-care books, but this is the only authoritative mother-care book available.
Authors: Sheila Kitzinger
Publishers: Charles Scribner’s Sons
Date of Publication: 1994
No. of pages: 302