Baby & Child Care

Marina Petropulos’ child care guidance is known and trusted all over the world and parents inevitably refer to Baby and Child Care Handbook as their ‘baby bible’. Her new Baby & Child Care Handbook has been extensively updated and expanded and deals with all the issues that parents everywhere encounter today, providing clear and medically sound explanations and answers in an accessible and empathetic way. The book encompasses everything from preparing for the birth, through the whole parenting experience. Besides the basic child care needs of feeding, sleeping, toilet training and discipline; many new behavioural, emotional, social and psychiatric issues including those on the autism spectrum , stem cell therapy, ADHD and AIDS are described. An easily understood index of childhood illnesses and their treatment is helpful in identifying both common and less well known conditions and infections. This is an invaluable guide for both parents and professionals.