Baby Love and The Mighty Toddler by Robin Barker

Bestselling Guides to Taking Care of a Baby or Toddler

Apr 12, 2009

Revised and updated, Robin Barker's bestselling guides to caring for a new baby and surviving the toddler years offer practical advice for parents of young children.

Filled with commonsense advice and practical childcare tips from an experienced midwife and early childhood nurse, Robin Barker’s Baby Love (Pan Macmillan, 2009) and The Mighty Toddler (Pan Macmillan, 2009) continue to provide Australian parents with the information they need to look after their newborn and toddler.

Taking Care of a Newborn Baby

With immunisation schedules and baby health information being constantly updated, both new and experienced parents can benefit from the revised edition of Robin Barker’s Baby Love, Australia’s best selling baby care book first published in 1994.

Filled with down-to-earth, practical advice offered in a tone of good humour and encouragement, Barker’s guide to the first 12 months of a baby’s life offers advice on getting baby to sleep, breast and bottle feeding, when to introduce solid food, a range of health issues, developmental milestones and practical tips for the day to day care of a baby.

Guidelines are offered for avoiding unnecessary purchases of baby care equipment, indicating which items are necessary and which are optional, with low-budget alternatives suggested where possible.

Barker’s straightforward, non-judgemental advice on topics such as breast vs bottle feeding, baby settling techniques and circumcision offers parents the information they need to make their own decisions about what will work best for their family. Barker frequently recommends both books and websites for parents seeking further information on a range of baby care topics.

Caring for Children Aged One to Three

The Mighty Toddler offers advice to parents moving into the toddler years with children aged one, two and three years old. Tips on potty/toilet training, tantrums, time-outs, tempting fussy eaters, providing a child-safe home environment and information on common toddler illnesses and health concerns are offered in the same practical, encouraging tone that has made Baby Love so popular.

First published in 2001, The Mighty Toddler continues to reassure parents that the trials of toddlerhood are temporary and offers encouragement, up-to-date information and commonsense advice on how to best manage a growing family.

Caring for Babies, Toddlers and Parents of Young Children

Robin Barker has more than 25 years experience as a registered nurse, midwife and early childhood nurse in addition to raising two children of her own. While the comprehensive information offered in Baby Love and The Mighty Toddler alone makes them ideal for parents of babies and toddlers, it is the encouraging tone and commonsense approach that helps these guides to stand out from the competition.

Focused not only on the care of babies and toddlers, but also on maintaining healthy and happy parents, Barker’s guides also offer information on post partum depression, parental stress, post-baby sexual relationships and dealing with various other emotional issues related to parenting young children.

Both Baby Love and The Mighty Toddler include an extensive index, an easy-to-follow format, growth charts, contact information for relevant parent support and information groups, further reading recommendations and recipe suggestions for baby and toddler meals. Barker has also published Baby and Toddler Meals (Pan Macmillan, 2004), with recipes and information to help parents offer tasty and nutritious meals to young children.

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