Dream Babies

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Synopsis

Parents have long been bombarded with conflicting advice on how to bring up their babies: from Locke, Rousseau, and Truby King to Spock, Penelope Leach and Gina Ford. Behaviourist warnings in the 1920s about physical contact ('Never hug and kiss them. Never let them sit in your lap') swung to Jean Liedloff's 'continuum concept' that babies should be wrapped round mum and fed on demand. Today enthusiasts for the 'family bed' are at war with Gina Ford's call for a return to the strict routines of pre-Spock days. Who is right and who is wrong? In this updated edition of her classic account of how and why the experts' advice has changed with changing times, Christina Hardyment analyses the anxieties of our own age and gives parents much-needed confidence in their own ability to choose the advice that best suits them and their babies.

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Published
01/11/2007

Publisher
Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd

ISBN
9780711227996

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"'A brilliant work - the perfect guide to take you safely through the minefield of expert baby-care advice.' Desmond Morris 'This is the book that changed my life. My own confidence grew as I learned how much advice has been forced on mothers down the centuries; and how much of it has been batty. From this riot of nonsense, bigotry, and mischievous theorizing, Christina Hardyments's dry, intelligent, kindly analysis somehow distils a thread of sanity and hope. She has freed us for ever from the idea that there is one 'right' baby-care expert.' Libby Purves"