Perinatal and new baby

In this brave and hilarious account of postnatal depression, Emma tells her story of despair and recovery. She tackles the biggest taboos around motherhood and mental health, from botched stitches and bleeding nipples to anger and shame. Dazzling and vital, this is a celebration of survival, holding out a hand to women everywhere.

This guide supports parents and professionals in that decision making process, and in planning for another pregnancy and the postnatal period if the decision is yes. It also considers the implications of deciding not to have another child.

A self-help book written to support women, all women, through the psychological passage to motherhood, empowering them to become the kind of mother they wish to be. Dr Koa Whittingham, a clinical and developmental psychologist, parenting researcher and mother, draws on the latest research, her clinical experience and her own experiences as a mother.

Written by ex-Commando and dad of three, Neil Sincliar, this is an indispensable training manual for new recruits to fatherhood. As any Commando Dad knows, with the right preparation and planning, anyone can parent with military precision.

This text explores how to cope with feelings of fear, guilt, anxiety, and symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares and persistent memories of birth, and how to make a successful and happy adjustment to motherhood, even when it doesn't come naturally at first.

This book is packed with completely impractical advice for the bewildered new mum or dad - stuff you won't find anywhere else: from 'Profanity Bingo' for labour to a categorisation of various nappy disasters. But, more than that, it is the story of how becoming a parent is a kind of beautiful insanity - a thing that changes you.

This book is a powerful medical autobiography describing the journey followed by the author into, through, and out of puerperal psychosis, the most severe form of postnatal depression. With vivid and intimate descriptions of events and the author's feelings, it offers a first-hand account of postnatal illness.

It is only in recent years that there has been development in the awareness of the father's mental health. This book seeks to address the reasons why the father or the potential father could suffer from a mental disorder or illness during the perinatal period, his reactions, and what can be done to help him.

This is not a book about how to have the perfect family experience - Giovanna would be the first to admit she is winging it just as much as the rest of us - instead it is an honest, upbeat and incredibly personal account of her own experience of having a family.

This is a book about parenting that contains absolutely no useful advice whatsoever. Instead it shares beautifully honest anecdotes and illustrations from the parenting frontline that demonstrate it is perfectly possible to love your children with the whole of your heart whilst finding them incredibly irritating at the same time.