From Crying Baby to Contented Baby

Jan 12, 2025 9:05 AM

Author:Gina Ford

All parents relish that very first cry from their newborn baby. Yet as the crying continues it can become deeply stressful. And no sooner have you worked out what your young baby is trying to tell you - often hunger, fatigue or discomfort - than they grow older and the reasons more complex - teething pain, anxiety or simply frustration.

In From Crying Baby to Contented Baby, Britain's bestselling childcare author, Gina Ford, outlines the common triggers for each specific age group, whether it's a five-week-old or a 10-month-old, to help you determine the most likely cause for your baby's distress so that you can respond to their needs and quickly comfort and settle them.

Full of practical tips such as encouraging parents to 'stop, look, listen', and lots of reassuring advice, your baby - and you! - will soon be calm and content once more.

Reviews

Gina Ford is the Delia Smith of parenting ... while Delia tells you how to make the perfect omelette, Gina tells you how to nurture the perfectly happy baby'

—— You magazine

For an astonishing number of mothers she has proved a saviour

—— Daily Telegraph

For me she was an absolute godsend

—— Kate Winslet

Britain's best-known childcare guru

—— The Times

Scintillating... Holroyd's book is a sly, inconclusive and utterly bewitching dance through the elusive narrative echoes that make up the biographer's art

—— Metro

A prince among biographers

—— Boyd Tonkin , Independent, Christmas round up

Beautifully and immaculately written

—— Country Life

[The book] displays all the wisdom of a long life in a story linking the author with the lives of three extraordinary women connected over the centuries by an opulent Amalfi Coast villa

—— Psychologies Magazine - Mariella Frostrup

A touching story of human frailty

—— Leslie McDowell , Independent on Sunday

Humane and sensitive, his book glows with the energy of lives restored, reanimated and celebrated

—— Sarah Bakewell , Sunday Times

A masterly blend of biography and memoir

—— Ian Pindar , Guardian

A sly meditation on the biographer's art from a master of the genre

—— Metro

An accomplished biographer's tale, with a roaming narrative and many incidental pleasures on the way

—— Derwent May , The Times

Detailed, personable and memorable

—— William Leith , Scotsman

Her story may not be unusual, but the elegance and range of her writing most certainly is. The journey is a delight

—— Daily Telegraph

Fans of this beautifully crafted, critically acclaimed memoir of middle-age might well take the view that it should be distributed free on the NHS to all women over 50... a penetrating analysis of the challenges and heartaches of life's middle phase

—— Katherine Whitbourn , Daily Mail

Shilling casts a self-critical eye over the events that have shaped her life

—— Emma Hagestadt , Independent

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