First Baby
- Author:
Dr Winifred de Kok, author of New
J ~ T i ,1 t a J r J Babies for Old, John Westhouse Ltd. /s. bd. As the title suggests this is a handbook for mothers having their first baby. It covers in a practical way all that a young mother needs to know about caring for herself and her child from conception and during the first couple of years. Though the book is simplicity itself one has the impression of real knowledge and rare experience and understanding going to its making.
Dr de Kok is in charge of Infant Welfare in a large clinic in Sussex and the mother of two children, and to this practical experience of the anxieties which beset parents and can themselves be the cause of children’s difficulties, she adds a profound psychological insight and considerable awareness of modern psychological finding. In her advice on feeding problems and the conduct of habit training she keeps the child’s natural health as well as his physical care to the fore. Here is no moralizing doctor with standards of hygiene and routine directed to the making of an efficiently functioning baby, but a woman who realizes how the right kind of physical care is fundamental to character and emotional development, and to the prevention of problem children. Her understanding of parents’ anxieties and the assured way in which she approaches them is really impressive.
This is an excellent book for any mother and a first rate construction on how to keep babies healthy and happy and to prevent them becoming problems.
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