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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