Annabel Karmel's Complete First Year Planner - Annabel Karmel

...expert for Prima Baby Magazine. Annabel is a celebrity chef and resident children's food writer on the BBCi website where she has created an extensive section on children's food. Visit Annabel's website at www.annabelkarmel.com."

I had heard about Annabel before and was actually going to purchase one of her baby food books once my baby was born and of the correct age to start feeding solid foods to when my friend actually gave me ...
...I was not aware that she also wrote help/information books but I have been pleasantly surprised by reading this.

The Complete First Yeat Planner is a guide to help you enjoy a healthy pregnancy and a stress free and healthy first year including over 80 delicious recipes for you and your baby. If you are looking for a one stop book to see you through the whole time then this is definitely for you. Generally I always find that there are ... more

Excert from book, "Annabel Karmel, the mother of three young children, is an international best selling author of ten books and is a respected authority on child nutrition. She appears frequently on television and writes for national newspapers and magazines including The Times and The Sun and is cookery expert for Prima Baby Magazine. Annabel is a celebrity chef and resident children's food writer on the BBCi website where she has created an extensive section on children's food. Visit Annabel's website at www.annabelkarmel.com."

I had heard about Annabel before and was actually going to purchase one of her baby food books once my baby was born and of the correct age to start feeding solid foods to when my friend actually gave me this book and said it had been invalueable to her. I was not aware that she also wrote help/information books but I have been pleasantly surprised by reading this.

The Complete First Yeat Planner is a guide to help you enjoy a healthy pregnancy and a stress free and healthy first year including over 80 delicious recipes for you and your baby. If you are looking for a one stop book to see you through the whole time then this is definitely for you. Generally I always find that there are books for preganacy and then there are books regarding how to deal with the first year but not many are combined so this is a good book for that.

The first section of the book has a really good nutrition section for the expectant mother. I found this to be quite comprehensive compared to some other books I have read. I liek the fact that it points out "superfoods," those whicha re going to be very beneficial for your health and it makes it easy to stick to a healthy diet. It then has over 20 really good recipes that help you to include these foods. There are some really ncie photos of the meals to entice you more!

The next chapters are as follows:

Birth 0-3 months

Settling in 4-6 months

Growing up 7-9 months

Moving on 10-12 months

Your baby's health.

In each of the chapters it then includes advice on practicalities, sleeping, crying, developing and feeding. These are accompanied with lots of helpful diagrams to give you visual help as well.

She does a really useful page every so often entitled Equipment Planner. It corresponds with the chapter and gives advice and bullet points on topics such as bedtime, chairs and rockers, sterilisers and teats, etc. She brings up some really good points about choosing these items or using them than sometimes you might not think about.

The baby food section looks really good. In each chapter she introduces new meals that are appropriate for the baby's age. Obviosuly I have not tried any of these but they look very easy to make and actually quite tasty.

You can find this book in all major bookstores and costs £16.99. It is published by Randomhouse.  

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