Happy Baby, Happy Family by Sarah Beeson Review and Giveaway

Back in October I was attending The Baby Show and I was lucky enough to get to meet Sarah Beeson to get some all needed brilliant baby advice. 

Sarah Beeson is an award winning health visitor who has more than 40 years of experience. In 2006 she was awarded a MBE by Queen Elizabeth II. She works around the Staffordshire and London area giving advice to parents and working along side magazines such as Prima Baby Magazine. 

One thing I can tell you about my meeting with Sarah Beeson is that it was very pleasant. She is really lovely and very easy to talk to. I spent a good hour talking to her all about the little worries and problems that I wanted to work through with Lily. I got some brilliant advice about helping Lily to sleep and how to get her to bed with no problems. The advice of giving Lily a more structured routine helped so much. 

When I found out that Sarah had a book I just had to own it. The book is called Happy Baby, Happy Family - Learning to trust yourself and your baby. It is written by Sarah and Edited by her daughter Amy Beeson. 

This has been my bedside book for the last two weeks and I've had a good read of it. As Lily is nearly 18 months old a lot of the things I was reading are stages I went through months ago, but I must say that I read some bits that I definitely wish I knew that when Lily was that age. I did find some useful advice in the sleeping section though, as Lily still isn't the best sleeper. The book is definitely aimed at newborn to 12 months and so I definitely will be having it by my bedside when I have baby number two. When ever that may be. 

The book has so much great advice in. From feeding your baby to helping your baby sleep to having to leave your baby and go back to work. It also has a section in for dads to read which I think is great. Some men can be put off reading when being handed a BIG book of baby advice so for it to be a nice section of a book instead I think would be much more encouraging for them to read. 

Here is a image of the contents so you can see if it would hold the advice your looking to read. 

One thing I found really useful in this book is the handy routines that are placed in here. I've always found routine really helps both baby and mummy and its great to have them written in the book to refer to when you need to. The routines go all the way up to 12 months old. Its written out in a really handy list form so its really easy to read. 

There are quite a few sections of the book that are written out this way which is great as it breaks up the paragraphs and makes it much easier to read. I'm not a huge fan of reading so for me it helps me not feel overwhelmed. Another section that is really handy and written out like this is a meal planner. I think its always a big concern to parents at what foods to give to their babies and how much and so its great to refer to when it comes to weaning. 

At the back of the book is a really handy A-Z section of common problems. I love this because if you have a certain concert for example Colic, you can quickly go to the C section and read about it. I can't begin to tell you the amount of times I've needed a quick answer to something when it came to caring for Lily and I still do. You panic even more when its your first and they are a newborn so to be able to quickly turn to the page you need is really helpful. 

I couldn't recommend this book more to you and really can't wait to be using it again for baby number two. 

If you think this book would be helpful, you can go here to find out more and buy it.
I now have two great opportunities for you. Firstly Sarah is giving away one of her books. You can enter below on the Gleam app.
I will also be holding a interview with Sarah when the competition ends and she has kindly offered to answer your questions and give you baby advice. You can ask her anything baby related that you may need help with. To be in with the chance to get your question answered please comment on this blog post. you can even get 5 points into the competition for doing so. Leave your Twitter name and I will tweet you if your question is answered. 

Good Luck

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