Information and Resources For Health Visitors and Healthcare Professionals

1. The Best Friends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood
Vicki Iovine Amazon Price: £6.99

Witty, human, perceptive and comic, this book is guaranteed to make any new (or not-so- new) mum laugh, relax and reminisce about their own wonderful, special experiences; essential reading for every mother's bookshelf.

2. Public Health in Policy and Practice: A Sourcebook for Health Visitors and Community Nurses
Sarah Cowley Amazon Price: £16.14

This book is a key text for health visitors and other community health nurses for whom public health is the key issue for future practice. It examines and defines public health nursing, explores its theoretical basis and provides a guide to practice issues. A range of perspectives
will be provided, each evaluated to demonstrate their rationale and implications for practice.

3. From Birth to Five Years: Children's Developmental Progress
Mary D. Sheridan , Marion Frost (Editor), Ajay Sharma (Editor) Amazon Price: £7.60

Based on the work of Mary Sheridan, this text sets out each stage of normal development in young children. The authors also describe suitable developmental tests for hearing and vision, advise when to refer a child for specialist attention and provide information about support services available to children and families with special needs. This second edition has been revised and fully updated to take account of the latest legislation and research.

4. Health Visiting: Specialist Community Public Health Nursing
Anne Robotam , Marion Frost Amazon Price: £20.24

This book is an essential resource for health visiting students that reflects the key changes required of health visiting practice at the beginning of the new millennium. It is a key text for specialist practitioner programmes and also for existing practitioners who are furthering their practice and academic development.

5. The Teacher Practitioner and Mentor in Nursing, Midwifery, Health Visiting and the Social Services (Teacher Preparation & Development S.)
Peter Jarvis , Sheila Gibson Amazon Price: £17.00

New developments in adult learning are examined, and the concept of the learning experience is discussed, with particular emphasis on reflective practice and the quality of learning experience. Full consideration is given to assessment of knowledge and skills, covering topics such as profiling and portfolios, credit transfer and assessment of prior learning.

6. Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
Alfie Kohn Amazon Price: £13.41

7. What to Expect When You're Breastfeeding and What If You Can't?: How to Feed and Settle Your Baby and Have a Life of Your Own
Clare Byam-Cook Amazon Price: £7.99

The author, a trained midwife and breastfeeding counselor, stresses that the most important thing is that the baby is fed - whether by breast or bottle - and that the mother should feel comfortable with whatever she chooses to do. She provides a wide range of practical advice and information.

8. What to Expect the First Year
Arlene Eisenberg , Heidi E. Murkoff , Sandee E. Hathaway Amazon Price: £9.09

Now fully revised and updated, this comprehensive and practical month-by-month guide clearly explains everything parents need to know - or might be worrying about - in the first year with a new baby. Featuring special sections on older siblings, traveling with a baby, adopted babies, and specific problems, as well as a first aid guide and charts on monthly growth and development, feeding and sleeping habits, this is the only book on infant care to address both the physical and the emotional needs of the whole family.