Your First Grandchild: Useful, touching and hilarious guide for first-time grandparents

Your First Grandchild: Useful, touching and hilarious guide for first-time grandparents
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Paul Greenwood. Your First Grandchild: Useful, touching and hilarious guide for first-time grandparents

Your First Grandchild. The survival guide for every. new grandparent. Claire Nielson, Paul Greenwood and Peggy Vance

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

I Can’t Be a Grandparent. The Announcement

Peggy Writes

Reactions

‘When I Had You’

Help! What Does It Mean?

Your New Status

Paul Writes

Ageing Worries – and How to Lose Them. Paul Writes

R.U.S.C!

Celebrate!

Chapter 2

Only 230 Knitting Days. The Pregnancy and Birth

Tests and Scans

A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing!

Names

Hasn’t She Had It Yet?

Paul Writes

The Birth

Birth Partners

Peggy Writes

Chapter 3

Rather You Than Me. The Immediate Postnatal Period

Top 10 Gifts for Young Babies

Breastfeeding – the Big Issue!

Bottle-feeding – the Routine

Breastfeeding in Public

Peggy Writes

Paul Writes

Help! He Won’t Stop Crying – a Grandparents’ Checklist

Close Encounters (with Nappies)

Tricks of the Nappy-changing Trade

Chapter 4

Here We Go Again. Baby Takes Over

Peggy Writes

He’s So Tiny!

Handling

Contact

Hush a-Bye Baby

Paul Writes

Chapter 5

The Techno Babe. Gizmos, Gadgets and What Not To Do with Them

Strap Up Your Troubles

Peggy Writes

Halfway Up the Stairs

Paul Writes

Sitting Pretty

The Learning Curve

Chapter 6

They’re Wonderful Parents, But … What Grandparents Really Think

Some Critical Quotes from Grandparents

Praise from Grandparents

Peggy Writes

Paul Writes

Chapter 7

They’re Wonderful Grandparents, But … What Parents Really Think

Paul Writes

Some Critical Quotes from Parents

Asthma Care

Peggy Writes

Some Admiring Quotes from Parents

Help or Interference?

you Can’t Win!

Chapter 8

Discipline. Showing Who’s Boss

Victorian Values

Fear or Respect?

Freedom

Peggy Writes

In Our Day …

Emotional Literacy and Co-operation

Paul Writes

Consistency

Chapter 9

Eating. Crisps, Chips and Chocolate!

Picky Eaters

The Wrong Way: Eating Games!

The Right Way

‘You Were a Great Little Eater’

First Foods

SIMPLE PURÉES

FOODS TO AVOID

Feeding Baby

Peggy Writes

Paul Writes

Over-eating

Chapter 10

The Night Shift. But I’m Not Tired …

Sleeping Alone

Peggy Writes

Bedtime Warmth and Safety

Three in a Bed

A Room of Their Own

Paul Writes

A Few Dos and Don’ts for Grandparents at Bedtime

Chapter 11

I’ve Never Seen Her in It. Children’s Clothes

Newborn Needs

Clothing Tips

Peggy Writes

Fastenings

Hats and Shades

Suncare

Nightwear

Paul Writes

Clothes Wars

How Many Layers?

The Way it Was

Peggy Writes

Haircuts

Chapter 12

Bottom Bits ‘Darling, She’s Done a Poo … ’

To Dispose or Not to Dispose

Toilet Training

Children and ‘Bums’

Discipline and the Bowels

Toilet Training Now

Peggy Writes

Paul Writes

Chapter 13

Developing Potential. Bringing Out the Best

Saving for Your Grandchild

Toys

Noisy Toys

At GrandMa (and Grandpa’s) Knee

Oral History

A Sense of Rhythm

Paul Writes

Storytelling

Phone Calls

Peggy Writes

Special Relationships

Sibling Rivalry

The Other Grandparents

What They Call Us

Celebrations

Practical Matters

Safety in the Home. Before the Birth

After the Birth

Safety in the Garden

Safe Habits

Some Thoughts and Experiences

First Aid

Index

Copyright

About the Publisher

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I’ve made up a new name for you, Gran! I’m going to call you ‘Old Bones’.

Harry: When I grow up I’m going to marry Grandpa.

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For some women, however, difficulties arise when they are either still fertile themselves or newly menopausal. A friend admitted that when she heard the news, she was ashamed to feel rather envious of her daughter’s fecundity and that she immediately had the desire to become pregnant. (This impulse may partly explain the number of nieces and nephews who are older than their aunts and uncles.)

As women, one of the hardest facts we have to face up to is our loss of fertility at quite an early age in comparison with men. All I can say to comfort any grandmother-to-be with faint yearnings in this direction is that these feelings are usually extinguished by the birth of the grandchild, when you can re-experience almost all your maternal delights without the sleeplessness and anxiety that went with them the first time around.

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