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  • Published: 19 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780143788607
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 536
  • RRP: $39.99

Babies & Toddlers

The Sequel to Up the Duff



The sequel to Up the Duff – the essential guide to the care of babies and toddlers, from Australia’s most loved and trusted voice for parents and carers.

Now you have a baby, what are you going to do with it?!

Kaz Cooke, the author of the bestselling pregnancy book Up the Duff, has you covered from your very first day with a baby.

With reassuring info, helpful suggestions, answers to your questions and quotes from Australian parents, Babies & Toddlers is backed by the professional advice of more than thirty medical and other experts.

Learn everything you need to know about:
- crying and sleeping
- breastfeeding and bottle-feeding
- health, body image and coping for new mums
- developmental milestones
- eating and toilet training
- common illnesses and safety
- fun stuff and tantrums (theirs and yours)
- extra stuff for dads
- and much, much more!

Fun, practical and updated every year, Babies & Toddlers has everything you need to know about looking after babies and toddlers.

'Babies & Toddlers demystifies the good, the bad and the ugly moments of parenting.' Sunday Herald Sun

  • Published: 19 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780143788607
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 536
  • RRP: $39.99

About the author

Kaz Cooke

For more than 30 years, award-winning, best-selling author Kaz Cooke has been helping generations of girls and women with her practical, reassuring and fun guides to life stages.

Kaz began her career at The Age newspaper as a teenage reporter. It published her famous satirical etiquette column, 'Keep Yourself Nice', and her legendary cartoon strip 'Hermoine the Modern Girl', which also appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald. Readers have enjoyed her work in Dolly magazine, The Australian, The Canberra Times, the Australian Women’s Weekly, and the Cane Toad Times (RIP), and many are familiar with her from all sorts of commercial and community radio shows.

Kaz’s book Real Gorgeous was a blockbuster in the 1990s, tackling the high-pressure ideas of body and beauty on girls and women; her collection of columns 'Living With Crazy Buttocks' won the international prize for oddest title. The original Girl Stuff book scooped the pool for its first edition, winning Australian Book Industry general non-fiction book of the year and the Australian Bookseller's Choice award.

Her other books include the meticulously researched, photo-illustrated book, You’re Doing It Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women; the historical novel based on real vaudevillians, Ada; and picture books for children, The Terrible Underpants and Wanda Linda Goes Berserk.

Up The Duff: The Real Guide to Pregnancy
, Babies & Toddlers (formerly Kidwrangling), Girl Stuff 8-12 and Girl Stuff 13+ have been updated often and are regularly still on genre best-seller lists: trusted, word-of-mouth-classics bought and gifted between generations.

Kaz lives in Melbourne where she drinks tea, talks on the phone, and can’t find her keys.

kazcooke.com.au

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Praise for Babies & Toddlers

Babies & Toddlers demystifies the good, the bad and the ugly moments of parenting.

Sunday Herald Sun

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Things to try if your toddler won’t eat

In Babies & Toddlers, Kaz Cooke explains there will be days that your toddler will not be interested in much food, the next they’ll be ‘on the fang’. Keeping up with this can be frustrating, and patience is key. In Babies & Toddlers there are tips to get even the fussiest toddlers eating.

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How babies change and learn

In Babies & Toddlers, Kaz Cooke helps parents understand a child’s physical, emotional and communication development milestones, from six-week-old babies through to three-year-olds. Including hints on fun ways to encourage development, and when (or whether) to see a doctor, Babies & Toddlers has it covered.