NEONATAL
PAEDIATRICIAN
Dr. Howard Chilton
Neonatal Paediatrician,
Physician to babies and toddlers,
Blogs, Books, Parent Education,
Consultations, Presentations.
BABY ON BOARD (4TH EDITION) IS OUT NOW AND AVAILABLE THROUGH BOOKTOPIA
BLOG ABOUT BABIES
Just Don’t Tell Them!
A new mum talks about the pressure she gets from family and friends, to persuade her, against powerful personal feelings, to impose rigid routines on her young baby. The answer is simple. Most people don’t discuss their finances or sex life with their relations and friends either. Just don’t tell them.
Boys will be Boys
When the ideas of attachment parenting were being developed in the 1960’s or so, the advice was fairly ‘gender neutral’. Later however data started to accumulate that baby boys’ needs were different from that of girls. Not qualitatively but quantitatively. Male babies on average have greater difficulty self-regulating their emotional state and therefore have a greater reliance on emotional support. [...]
The Path to Empathy
Recently I was talking to a friend of mine who works as a pre-school teacher. She asserted that she could tell an ‘attachment parented’ child from across the room. “They are generally so much more calm and empathic! They will tend to go over and comfort a sad child. They think about what others are feeling’. There [...]
OFFICE CONSULTATIONS
SKENNARS HEAD
Skennars Head Consulting, 27 Killarney Crescent,
Skennars Head, NSW 2478.
Phone: 0497 643 273 Fax : 6687 5431.
Consultations: MONDAY – FRIDAYS
BOOKS
In this fourth expanded edition of his successful book, leading Australian baby expert Dr Howard Chilton presents parents with all the information they need to be confident about looking after their new baby. He refers to the latest international medical information so they understand the reasons behind the advice. Not just the HOW but the WHY.
This expanded edition has new chapters on the introduction of solids, how to play with your baby, and the essential drivers of baby sleep and how to enhance them. Dr Chilton’s daughter, Georgina Dowden, with whom he collaborates professionally, has extensively rewritten the breastfeeding chapter, and many other chapters have been revised and updated.
This book has bigger horizons. It’s about ‘SETTLING, SLEEP, SOLIDS, PLAY and TODDLERS. It lays out the nuts and bolts of the first two years of your child’s life. This is the most critical time in their development. What they learn now about love, relationships and their value in the world will last them a lifetime. According to Dr Howard Chilton, one of Australia’s most respected baby doctors, you cannot give your baby too much love.
Drawing on his 35 years as a baby physician, Dr Chilton
explains the science that proves what many of us instinctively know: the way we feed, hold play with and settle our babies is what determines the kind of adults they will become.