What they don't tell you about being a mother and looking after babies - Nikki Bradford

The first book to cover all the possible health issues of both mothers and their babies during the first two years, and include both traditional and complementary solutions

Detailed practical and friendly information - including all the tips and hints and medical research that are never talked about - on all the health issues mothers (and their babies) encounter in the first two years.

Aims to inform mothers more comprehensively than any other book on the market, so they are equipped to make their own decisions about what works and what doesn't for them.

Covers both traditional medicine and complementary therapies.

Full of the practical know-how and experience of other mothers.

Areas covered are:

BABIES: - breast or bottle? -nappy rash -crying and colic -sleep problems -teething -introducing solids -all the common childhood illnesses -asthma -eczema and other allergies -vaccination - should you or shouldn't you? -cot death worries

MOTHERS: -combating exhaustion -anaemia -backache -pelvic pain and 'loo' problems -recovering after a caesarean -postnatal depression -postnatal PMS - hair loss - getting your body back -sex after childbirth -contraception