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PARENTING BY HEART

by PINKY McKAY

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New softcover book, 352pages. Published 2011.

In this essential guide to your baby's first year, Pinky provides the best information available on how to feed your baby, how to get your baby to sleep, how to stop your baby crying, surviving the first six weeks & beyond, how life changes now you have a baby, routines that will suit everyone, and much, much more.

Everyone loves to tell a new parent what they 'should' be doing. But you know best what your baby needs; you just have to trust your instincts. Pinky McKay has helped thousands of parents feel confident and in tune with their baby. Every day she works hands on with mum and bubs, helping to take the stress out of life with a newborn.

Chapters include:

Bonding with your unborn child
Your body, your baby, your birth
Birth
The essential items
The first six weeks - survival guide
Bonding after birth
Feeding
Sleeping
Playing
Crying
Nurturing yourself
Postnatal depression
Body image
Relationships
Resources
References, further reading and index

The secret to success is in acknowledging that babies come in all shapes and sizes. Parenting by Heart will help you find the best solutions for your baby.

About the Author

Pinky McKay is a Melbourne-based parenting expert and writer specialising in health, education and family issues. An International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and certified infant massage instructor, she is the author of 100 Ways to Calm the Crying, Sleeping Like a Baby and Toddler Tactics and is a popular contributor to various national parenting publications and websites including Practical Parenting, Mother and Baby, Natural Parenting, Bellybelly and Motherinc. Parenting by Heart is her latest book. Pinky's books are endorsed by the Australian Breastfeeding Asociation and the Australian Association of Infant Mental Health

Pinky is the mother of four young adults and a 'bonus baby' (the baby you have when your other kids can run their own baths, tie their own shoelaces and even drive their own cars!). She has seen it all from both sides of the episiotomy and knows first-hand that parents need to laugh, or some days they'd cry.

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