I have 2 sets of this brilliant Essential Parent Baby Care Guide DVD box set to giveaway. The guide comprises 4 DVDs with over 8 hours of visual demonstrations coveting everything new parents need to know to raise, happy, safe and healthy babies through its many parenting tips.
Recent research has revealed that 80% of new parents felt they were not equipped to deal with this practical side of parenting. According to David Cameron people spend more time learning to drive than they do learning to become good parents! I’m not sure about that but I do definitely think these care & development DVD’s are a good idea.
These essential Parent Company DVDs are solely concerned with supporting parents in their own choices. If a mother wants to breastfeed it shows her how and if she chooses to bottle feed it shows her how. That is quite unusual these days.
Professor Winston is a baby expert and has advised the company throughout the making of these DVDs.
DVD 1 – “Feeding” – includes Breastfeeding, Formula Feeding, & Introducing Solids, and is presented by UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative, and a Paediatric Nutritionist from the British Dietetic Association.
DVD 2 – “Care & Development” -includes everything you need to know on Care from a experienced Midwife (bathing, nappy changing and so on) and a Consultant Paediatrician (recognising a meningitis rash, treating fever, building the immune system, and so on). It also includes a comprehensive Development section, presented by teachers & Development Psychologists – and covers physical, emotional and cognitive development. Finally it includes a full visual demonstration of Baby Massage techniques, advised by Paediatric Physiotherapist from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
DVD 3 – “Sleeping” is presented by a sleep expert who advises the NHS.
DVD 4 – “First Aid and Accident Prevention” – includes the entire infant first aid course from the St John Ambulance, and advice on safety from the Child Accident Prevention Trust.
They are available on the company website www.essentialparent.com, or in any John Lewis store.
You can click here for baby care advice
How to Win a Set.
Simply tell me in the comments below which part of caring for a newborn you have found or fear will be the hardest?
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Good luck!
when they are growing up will be the hardest
getting them to eat certain foods that even i don’t like
Managing to look after anewborn properly whilst exhausted is the bit that is worrying me most.
when they aren’t well!
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Breastfeeding was the best but the hardest thing I have ever done.
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going from milk to soilds
weaning them i think be hard
when they have colic
We’ll be trying for a baby soon and I’m worried we’ll forget really important things, such as having immunisations done and working out a feeding routine. Also, my partner is a policeman and I worry he will not be able to spend as much time with our children as other dads do.
Feeding was a huge dilema as some books/people recommend feeding on demand and others say sticking to a routine! My first baby seemed to be hungry all the time so I started weaning him at 4 months. The second was a terrible feeder so I had to feed him almost every hour! My two daughters we opposites too but by then I felt more confident in following my intuition!
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Im very scared about leaving baby unattended even for a few seconds, i.e when daddy goes back to work. Im not sure how im going to take a shower or go to the loo. Im think im a bit over anxious lol.
KEEP CHECKING ON THEM WHEN THEY ARE SLEEP
Breastfeeding is what I fear the most
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Taking them from bottle to solid, getting the balance right
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Lack of sleep at night.
sleepless nights, when the baby just wants to feed and mumble
bathing the baby.. they wriggle lots!
The colic evenings from 6 till 10
Changing the Nappy
I’m worried about when the baby is ill – how do I know if it is nothing to worry about or if I should call a doctor? I have a feeling that when my baby is born I’ll become an over anxious mother – rushing him or her to the doc’s every other day lol.
Establishing a routine.
Getting a sleep routine in place 🙂
To try to get them to into a routine (feeding/sleeping) they didn’t seem to like that!
I was very scared bathing my babies and I was still nervous bathing my granddaughter. @01592_katie
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getting the complete balance right . sleeping mostly x
Bedtime
The serious lack of sleep!
All of it! From whether I should breastfeed or bottle, how many times do I change a nappy, how do I hold them when they have a bath!! EEEEEkkkkkkk! But I’m sure I’ll be fine and I can’t wait!!!!!!
Im worried about knowing what it is my baby wants when they cry.
Not knowing what is wrong sometimes when they’re crying, its hard not to feel like you must be doing something wrong.
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Lack of sleep
Feeding my son solids, especially when my son is teething. He goes right off his food and I always feel bad when I have to throw food away, because he’s refused to eat it.
Coping with the lack of sleep
The fear of being able to keep them safe from harm
My baby is due in 2 weeks time and we’ve got my mum, my father in law, sister in law, brother in law, niece and nephew coming to visit from South Africa the day after the baby is due. Only my mum will be staying with us, but I’m most dreading the visitors and how we are going to try and keep them and baby happy.
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My fear is what if I don’t feel an instant bond with my baby.
Are they too warm or too cold
I worry about PND
I think getting enough sleep to keep me sane will be the hardest thing.
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kitchen accidents
Settling down into a good feeding routine.
Sleeping. I need a lot of sleep to stop me turning into an ogre!
The bit where they depend on me. for everything.
Breastfeeding i found very hard and an emotional roller coaster, i fear for their safety, some say i am over the top with that and also i was massively freaked out by the umbilical cord falling off hehe
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Bathing them safely
Being too tired to look after them properly!
Being an expectant first time mum, whilst I cannot wait for my little girl to be here, I am very nervous about many aspects of her being here in the real world! From breastfeeding – will she be getting enough nutririon, what if she can’t breastfeed, what if I can’t breastfeed! Being worried that there is something wrong if I can’t stop her crying – whether she is in pain or feeling poorly! I will be worried about leaving her unattended for even the smallest amounts of time, literally seconds, so can picture myself carrying her everywhere with me, including to the bathroom and leaving the door open with her in her moses basket right by the door!
I feared sleep with my new born, as she had been in SCBU on a ventailator with respiratory distress for 18 days. I was such a worry bringing her home and being comfortable letting her sleep. She now only settles when being held and we’d love some adive on her self setlling, but we’d never let her cry it out.
getting them eating the healthy meals
functioning without sleep!
Worrying that you are not doing things right and the lack of sleep x
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Establishing good routines for baby and parent
Subscribed. Many thanks. Interesting and informative reading.
Being a first time mum I was anxious about all the basics when my daughter was born, i.e was she breathing normally? Was she ok when she was sleeping? How would I know if she was not ok? Was she getting enough milk from breastfeeding and so on. However, I read up on a lot of the basics to satisfy myself I was doing the right thing.
When they turn 13…
At the age where my son knows what he wants but cant tell me
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when they are crying in the middle of the night and you are sleep deprived yourself
For me it’s always the broken sleep
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Bathing the baby especially when wriggly.
Feeding for what seemed like all of the time, constantly changing both his and my clothes when we are covered in sick and feeling guilty that perhaps it was something I’d eaten that was making him sick.
Not looking forward to teething!!
The lack of sleep!
i found the lack of sleep difficult. my son slept in the day and was awake at night and trying to change that routine took what seemed like forever!
for me the hardest part was being released from hospital and knowing that I had sole responsibility for the welfare of this little being. I had been in hospital for 10 days following a caesarian so when they let me out I had a panic and wondered how I would cope on my own!
SLEEP
Being unwell 🙁
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When they are feeling unwell
I found breast feeding to be really hard and after exhausting sleepless nights i just couldnt do it. but when i gave up and started formula feeding things seemed a million times easier. just that one change helped me cope.
trying to get them settled on breast feeding
“Oh baby boo, why are you crying? ” check the book, it doesn’t sound like any of those cries…”I’ve just fed you, burped you, you have a clean nappy, why are you crying?…oh, ok, you just wanted more booby, right-o, I’ll just carry you round then – why can’t you cling on like a monkey?”
Getting up in the middle of the night 2 or 3 times & then
waking up feeling like you have not slept!
Breastfeeding, everyone expects it to just happen and it doesn’t always!
I was scared of “breaking” my baby!! Thinking I was being too rough or heavy handed!!
Being alone with my new baby for the first time is what I’m dreading when I have it
I think lack of sleep is always a tough one and also scared to even pick the baby up sometimes thinking that something on it would break as it was so delicate.
Bathing
im 14 weeks pregnant and so scared of all of it!! but i think the main concern has to be sleeping, for baby and me!!