Monday 28 April 2014

Book review "Babies All Wrapped Up" by Dr Claire Winstanley


At the beginning of my pregnancy my sister-in-law brought me 5 different pregnancy books. I have narrowed our night read to 2 books and every night I was reading books to my husband and other nights when I was tired my husband was reading them to me. Soon we realised that it will take us ages to find information we are after, I started picking bits to read and then just stopped reading at all.

When I was offered to review "Babies All Wrapped Up" by Dr Claire Winstanley I was open- minded but didn't expect miracles from the book as previous 5 didn't impress us.

To my surprise "Babies All Wrapper Up" is very "light", very easy to understand, it's one of those books which you just can't stop reading. For me as a mum-to-be a found lots of useful information (e.g. baby essentials, how to handle your baby, breastfeeding, bottle feeding, medical information as well as information for fathers and much more) and took lots of notes, which I am planning to put in areas where I will be most likely to notice them.

What I like the most about the book it is written not just by a professional but by a mother too, it has important tips on every page, you don't need to read half of the book to find those answers they are all there.

As we all have something to do during the day it took me 2 days to finish reading the book and maybe some of you may think that it's sounds naive but I do feel a lot more confident that we can do it (with help from my notes taken from this book, relatives and professionals of course).

I'm not quite sure I like the presentation of the book and the fact that some information may seem repetitive from chapter to chapter (i.e. the front picture is not "catchy", looks basic) but overall I enjoyed reading it and it is very useful indeed. If you are intrigued about the book, you can buy it here.


Disclamer: "Babies All Wrapped Up" book was kindly sent over for the purpose of this review. All views and opinions are honest and my own.

28 comments:

  1. Sounds like a very useful book to have. Glad it has given you some confidence. You will find when baby is born, it's more about common sense anyway!

    #ReadWithMe

    Laura x x x

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  2. Sounds like a good book if it has managed to give you some confidence!!! Thanks for linking up with #ReadWithMe I have tweeted and pinned this post x

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  3. Sounds useful, hopefully I won't be needing any more baby books these days!

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  4. Sounds like it has lots of useful information - I'll have to take a look! Thanks!

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  5. Great review, sounds like a useful and practical book, thanks for sharing #MumdayMonday

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  6. Sounds like you got some useful information from it, I didn't read any baby books when I was pregnant with my first but I did read a couple during my twin pregnancy! x #blogclub

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  7. It does help to have as much knowledge as possible when entering the parenting game, though I find most things are learned by accident or through experience :-) #blogclub

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  8. Nice review. It's always frustrating as a new parent that everyone has their own (normally differing) opinion on how to do certain things with babies. This book sounds great. Thanks for linking up #MumdayMonday

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  9. Sound like a great book. Good that it has all that information in too. x

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  10. Sounds like a very useful and informative book. Trust your gut too though, you'll find that most things come naturally when you become a mother xxx

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  11. It's always great to find a good book to help you through those mystifying early weeks of parenthood!

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  12. It's great that you found something that helped you. We read a couple x

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  13. I know some people are anti-baby books, but I found a couple to be really helpful when I was pregnant and when my daughter was a baby.

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  14. I read a couple of books with my first pregnancy. I had one I really loved but can't remember what it was now! As for baby advice - most of them are awful - especially that awful woman who has a strict schedule for them (I'm sure you know who I mean - don't do it!!) Glad you have found one that seems useful but do trust your instincts too - everyone and every baby is different!

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  15. Always great to have lots of practical advice when you're pregnant. I used to try and limit myself to reading just a couple of months ahead as it was a bit overwhelming. After I had my first, I found Tracey Hogg really helpful, she seemed the more flexible and gentle of the authors I read.

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  16. When I was pregnant I used to buy all the baby + pregnancy mags - found them very helpful. It's easy to be overwealmed as a mum-to-be and a new mum...good luck! x

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  17. Great review, sounds like a good all round book for new mummies which is easy to take in. It's so easy to get swapped with info when your pregnant #triedtested

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  18. That sounds like a very useful book...

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  19. I think books you can "dip into" are the best sort when it comes to parenting and babies. Who has time to read a book cover to cover!
    #TriedTested

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  20. Lots of people slate baby books but I found a couple of them useful

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  21. Sounds like you have found a good book to help you through those early stages of pregnancy & motherhood.

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  22. Sounds like an interesting book to read and that you found it useful x

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  23. When I was pregnant for the first time I read loads of books and they all said much the same thing. It was once the babies arrived I realised that books you can dip in and out of are so much better! To be able to find just what you need quickly is a life saver! Glad you found the book useful and I hope it continues to give you confidence :-)

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  24. Sounds like an interesting read. As a second time mum - I wonder if I should check out the 'manuals' again... ;)

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  25. I LOVE reading books like this- I don't think it hurts at all to read what you can. This one sounds like a good read, thanks for sharing :)
    x
    #TriedandTested

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  26. nice review - I remember the early days of pregnancy reading these books in bed every night to my other half! I wrote about my fave pregnancy books here: http://yummyblogger.com/2014/04/28/pregnancy-books-the-best-5/
    On to the parenting books next! #1daytogo #brilliantblogposts

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  27. It's easy to be overwhelmed when you are expecting so I think finding a book that gives you more confidence can only be a good thing!! Thank you for linking up with #BookLove

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  28. Sounds like a good book, I read lots with my first (although nothing can really prepare other than first hand experience) and none with my second! Did love charting growth online though! Thanks for linking up to #brilliantblogposts

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