Bought when our first baby arrived. We found it interesting casual reading (when we had any time left to read), but not particularly informative or useful. ( )

I probably would have enjoyed this about the time my older boys were born, although I would have considered the complaints about maternity wards out-of-date. Wait a minute. The book wasn't written for another 10 years! Where was he writting about?

Other than that the information is partly interesting, partly questionable (even then), and a lot of interesting information is missing. I would suggest that new parents get their information about babies somewhere else. Still, the pictures are cute, and if you have no other sources of information, you might learn something. If only that most aspects of parenting are subject to changing customs. ( )