<link href="https://cdn.sur.ly/widget-awards/css/surly-badges.min.css" rel="stylesheet"><div id="surly-badge" class="surly__id_56779743 surly-badge_white-gradient" onclick="if(event.target.nodeName.toLowerCase() != 'a' && event.target.parentElement.nodeName.toLowerCase() != 'a') {window.open('https://sur.ly/i/parentingwithouttears.com/'); return 0;}"> <div class="surly-badge__header"> <h3 class="surly-badge__header-title">Content Safety</h3> <p class="surly-badge__header-text">HERO</p> </div> <div class="surly-badge__tag"> <a class="surly-badge__tag-text" href="https://sur.ly/i/parentingwithouttears.com/"> parentingwithouttears.com </a> </div> <div class="surly-badge__footer"> <h3 class="surly-badge__footer-title">Trustworthy</h3> <p class="surly-badge__footer-text">Approved by <a href="https://sur.ly" class="surly-badge__footer-link">Sur.ly</a> </p> </div> <div class="surly-badge__date">2023</div></div>
The Baby Feeding Book by Vanessa Christie describes itself as the "essential guide to breastfeeding, bottle-feeding and starting solids with confidence". It’s a comprehensive guide to feeding a baby, which I found to be very thoughtful, factual and evidence based.
How best to feed your baby is a very emotive topic for many parents and one on which everyone seems to have their own view. What I particularly liked about this book was that it was entirely non-judgmental, and simply provided useful information on all feeding methods without forcing unnecessary opinions on to the reader.
Whilst the book focuses on feeding, I found some really helpful commentary in the book on a wide range of baby related topics, from sleeping habits and mental health considerations to developmental milestones.
My baby has just started on solids, and so I found that part of the book particularly helpful but I also read the other parts and for someone who both breast and bottle-fed, I would definitely have benefitted from reading this book in the early weeks and would absolutely recommend it new parents.
The Baby Feeding Book: Your essential guide to breastfeeding, bottle-feeding and starting solids with confidence