In Baby on Board, Dr Howard Chilton provides essential advice and explanations for parents, from the day of birth through the first months of babyhood. This accessible book includes reassuring medical information, a discussion of important issues that require parents decisions, and a fascinating description of the evolutionary background to the needs of babies.

Baby on Board 

• demystifies baby's needs in an easy-to-read approach
• debunks common myths
• explores significant issues such as breastfeeding, circumcision, colic, immunisation, SIDS, postnatal depression and sleeping with your baby
• provides insights into a baby's senses and what they can perceive
• outlines a timetable of development for baby's first year
• shows how everyone can get enough sleep!

Baby on Board is arranged in four parts:

• a quick set-up guide to your baby
• what happens in hospital
• how evolution has designed your baby
• settling in at home.

This informative and engaging book is designed to help you parent without panic.

Dr Howard Chilton has been a neonatologist for nearly 30 years, having trained at prestigious centres in London, Oxford and the US. Much of that time was spent as Director of Newborn Care at the Royal Women's Hospital, Sydney. He also practises at the Prince of Wales Private Hospital and Sydney Children's Hospital. Australia 2003