The prospect of bringing a new baby home when you already have a toddler can be extremely daunting. Life with a newborn baby is tiring & challenging enough but with a demanding elder brother or sister to deal with too how do you cope? Written in the same reassuring accessible style as her bestselling The Contented Little Baby Book The Contented Baby with Toddler Book is full of practical tips & sanguine advice that will calm & reassure all panicked parents. A major feature of the book is the adaptable routines specifically designed to help you structure your day & meet all the needs of your toddler & your new baby...and still have time for lots of cuddles. By using Ginas easy-to-follow methods not only will you have a contented baby who feeds regularly & sleeps through the night from an early age but also a happy involved toddler who remains calm & co-operative during this unsettled time. ...

Gina Ford's bestselling The Contented Little Baby Book established Gina as one of the UK's most influential voices in baby & childcare issues. Her groundbreaking routines have been the salvation of hundreds of thousands of parents & her sound advice on weaning & sleep has guaranteed contented little babies in households around the world. In The Contented Baby's First Year Gina takes you through your baby's first year in a month-by-month guide. From physical & mental development through to changes in feeding & sleeping patterns this wonderful book is packed with practical parenting advice. There's information here on soothing breastfeeding weaning & bathing your baby together with suggestions for encouraging key developmental milestones: holding a toy rolling over sitting up & crawling. in addition for each month there is a handy Q&A that offers reassuring solutions to particular problems that can occur at each stage in your baby's development. Beautifully illustrated with stunning photography including step-by-step guides to caring for your little one The Contented Baby's First Year is essential reading for guaranteeing a contented little baby in year one. ...

When you have ingredients such as fresh crunchy chicory sweet sun-ripened cherry tomatoes & juicy ripe peaches a simple approach to cooking is all you need. Spending hours over lengthy preparations only disguises the natural fresh flavour of the food. In The Contented Cook" Xanthe Clay pares back all the effort & the fuss to show you how simplicity is key; both saving you time & allowing the quality of your ingredients to shine through. The simple philosophy embraces every seasonal glut & windfall of the year & rises to every occasion. A one-pot dish of Pork Flageolets & Star Anise is perfect family food for a weekday evening & Duck Breasts with Sweet Potato & Parsnip Crisps takes all the stress out of entertaining for a relaxed kitchen supper with friends. With recipes arranged according to seasonal ingredients & with sections on Spring Baking A Summer Buffet Party An Autumn Mezze & Winter Canapes this book capitalises on natures bounty to provide simple & delicious solutions at every turn." ...

Dementia is a little understood & currently incurable illness but much can be done to maximise the quality of life for people with the condition. Contented Dementia"
- by clinical psychologist & bestselling author Oliver James
- outlines a groundbreaking & practical method for managing dementia that will allow both sufferer & carer to maintain the highest possible quality of life throughout every stage of the illness. A person with dementia will experience random & increasingly frequent memory blanks relating to recent events. Feelings however remain intact as do memories of past events & both can be used in a special way to substitute for more recent information that has been lost. The SPECAL method (Specialized Early Care for Alzheimer's) outlined in this book works by creating links between past memories & the routine activities of daily life in the present. Drawing on real-life examples & user-friendly tried-&-tested methods " Contented Dementia" provides essential information & guidance for carers relatives & professionals."

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A Contented House with Twins unites the UKs leading baby expert Gina Ford & the highly regarded television presenter Alice Beer a mother of twin girls. Discovering you are expecting twins is both an exciting & a thoroughly terrifying prospect. Within weeks of the arrival of her beautiful daughters Alice found that she was screaming out for a routine & craving the knowledge of mothers who had been through it with two. This book is the result of those cries. Alices front-line experience of coping with twins is combined with Ginas highly successful parenting advice & for the first time her groundbreaking routines specially adapted for twins. Together they tackle the practical & emotional aspects of parenting two babies including:
- what you can expect in a multiple pregnancy
- how to feed two at once
- what to do when they each want a different story or both want a hug
- how to cope with everyday practicalities: shopping bathtime & much more. Alices humorous insights & Ginas essential advice tips support & successful routines will guarantee that parents enjoy their twins & get their lives back.



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Weaning your baby on to solid foods is one of the most important milestones during the early months of parenthood & Gina's expert advice on weaning makes a baby's transition from milk to solid foods as straightforward as possible. Successful weaning establishes a pattern of healthy eating in babies avoiding the pitfalls of fussy eaters restricted to a narrow diet. In this revised edition of The Contented Little Baby Book of Weaning Gina

Includes:: the latest recommendations regarding breast-feeding & the introduction of solid food from the World Health Organisation & the UK Department of Health. She aims to take the worry out of weaning guiding parents step-by-step through the process & shares the insight & expertise gained from personally helping to care for over 300 babies & advising thousands more parents via her consultation service & website. Included in this revised edition:
- The best time of day to introduce the first solid food
- Which foods to introduce & at what age
- Getting the balance of milk feeds & solids right
- How to eliminate night feeds once solids are introduced
- The importance of introducing finger foods at the right age
- Extended parent-friendly feeding plans to take parents step-by-step through the different stages
- Newly developed rotating meal planners for older children up to the end of the first year
- Brand new questions & answers giving the most up-to-date advice to parents. The Contented Little Baby Book of Weaning is the definitive guide to ensuring babies eat well now & as they grow up & is as relevant & helpful to those parents who have not previously followed Gina's routines.









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As babies grow so their routines & patterns change. In The Contented Toddler Years Gina addresses the many changes in sleeping & feeding habits that arise during the second & third year. She offers invaluable advice & insight into these crucial stages of a child's development from walking & talking to teething & potty training & also shows you how to: -deal with tantrums food refusal & sibling jealousy -prepare for the arrival of a second baby including how to cope physically emotionally & financially & how to adapt her routines when caring for a baby & toddler -make teeth-cleaning fun & put an end to habits such as thumb-sucking nail-biting & eating dirt -decide what type of childcare is best for you & your toddler Gina's advice is derived from hands-on experience of dealing with children. Parents can be confident that her techniques which have been tried & tested many times & have proved successful with many different children can also work for them. She has listened to the concerns of thousands of parents via her consultations & website. Reassuring & down-to-earth parents will find Gina's advice can help make the passage from contented baby to confident child a happy & stress-free experience for the whole family. ...

The New York State Library looms as a silent sanctuary of knowledge: a hundred-year-old labyrinth of towering bookcases narrow aisles & spiral staircases. But for Dr Stephen Swain & his eight-year-old daughter Holly it is a place of nightmare. Because for just one night this historic building is to become the venue for a horrifying contest a contest in which Swain must compete whether he likes it or not. The rules of the challenge are simple: seven contestants will enter but only one will leave. With his daughter in his arms Stephen Swain is plunged into a terrifying fight for survival. The stakes are high the odds are brutal. He can choose to run to hide or to fight
- but if he wants to live he needs to win. For in this particular contest unless you leave as victor you do not leave at all.
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Photographys great success gives the impression that the major questions that have haunted the medium are now resolved. On the contrary
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They stuck their coaches on ride-on ride off ferries whisked through France & Italy moaning about garlic & rudeness then bored the neighbours to death by having them all round to look at their holiday watercolours Many people associate the Grand Tour with the baggy shirted Byrons of its 19th century heyday but someone had to do it first & Thomas Coryate author of arguably the first piece of pure travel writing CRUDITIES was that man. Tim Moore travels through 45 cities in the steps of a larger-than-life Jacobean hero incidentally responsible for introducing forks to England & thus ending forever the days of the finger-lickin-good drumstick hurlers of courts gone by. Coryates early 17th century bawdy anecdotes include being pelted with eggs pursued by a knife wielding man in a turban & finally being vomited on copiously by a topless woman with a beer barrel on her head:- For once Tim Moore has no trouble keeping up the modern-day side. & his authentic method of travel to replicate these adventures? A clapped-out pink Rolls Royce of course. ...