description: There's no magical formula for new mums, but The Best Friends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood can help you to cope - and to enjoy yourself. When it comes to your new baby, everyone from Dr Spock to your mother-in-law has an armful of advice. But no one is delivering any tips on how you can care for yourself. Now, four-time delivery-room veteran Vicki Iovine answers your questions, calms you fears and cracks you up as only a friend can with straight advice and hilarious observations Baby is it a mind-altering drug 'Partner What partner': taking care of the big baby as well as the little baby 'I want my old body back!': what you can fix and what you can't The droning the inability to discuss anything but your baby for more than thirty seconds 'Do I have to become Penelope Leach': conquering your fear of becoming a less than perfect mother Competitive coping with know-it-alls, finger pointers and others who try to 'Out-Mum' you
language: English
title: The Best Friends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood
titlecomplete: The Best Friends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood
genres: Family, Humor, Self Help, Reference, Parenting, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1505
publisher: Bloomsbury