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Home-Start | help and info

help and info

organisations

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Home-Start
2 Salisbury Road
Leicester LE1 7QR
Info line: 08000 68 63 68
E-mail: info@home-start.org.uk
Website: www.home-start.org.uk
Offers support, guidance and practical help to families with children under five, in their own homes. See the website for further information and details of local schemes.

websites

NCT babycare
www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com
Designed to help women through the first months of motherhood - what to eat, how to get into shape, how to make time for yourself and for your relationships with others.

Relate
www.relate.org.uk/mediacentre/factsheets/
Making the change from being a couple to being parents isn’t always easy. It can be difficult to find time for yourselves, your sex life can change, you have to juggle the commitments of work and family and find a way of agreeing on how to bring up the children. This factsheet aims to help you if you’ve just had a baby.

Associaton for Post Natal Illness
www.apni.org
Provides support to mothers suffering from post-natal illness.

reading

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Surviving Post-Natal Depression: At Home No One Hears You Scream by Cara Aiken (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2000)
This book aims to help understand this illness. The book tells the stories of ten women from very different backgrounds - including the author - who have suffered post-natal depression.
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The Preschooler's Busy Book by Trish Kuffner (Meadowbrook Press, 1999)
Containing 365 activities (one for every day of the year) for three- to six-year olds, this book shows parents and day-care providers how to save money by making craft materials; prevent boredom with ideas for indoor play; stimulate a child's natural curiosity, and encourage their growth all-round.
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Babies for Beginners  by Roni Jay (White Ladder Press, 2004)
A pared down guide to the absolute essentials you need to know, along with what you can manage without. Its humour and honesty take the stress out of the responsibility of looking after a new baby, and the step-by-step guides make everything, from soothing the baby to changing its nappy, easy and straightforward.  
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