Author(s): Levitt Leon

Parenting

For expecting parents, new parents, grandparents, family and friends – this book is for you!

This is the cry of new parents at home from hospital with their child, alone for the first time and daunted by the responsibility, by the tasks never before performed and by the fear of not getting it right. It is the feeling that the parent who cannot work out why her screaming colicky 8-week-old just will not be settled. It is the cry of the mother of a 7-month-old child, crying at night and calling her hourly. It is the expression on the face of the father unable to stop the 2-year-old temper tantrum in the supermarket, no matter what he tries to do. ‘What do I do now?’ is the parent’s plea, and the book addresses the stress and struggle of parenting. It is a cry to get help – to take much of the stress out of parenting. This book is the answer to that cry.

Perth based GP Obstetrician, Dr Leon Levitt, has a new book and a new approach to parenting to bring back calmness, control and joy. With real life examples from his medical practice, he presents important principles and strategies to better navigate parenting and enjoy the journey. 

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From Hybrid Publishers:

Becoming a parent begins with just one moment of intimacy – a brief encounter that leads to a new life. A significant complication of a moment of passion, or, a long-awaited result of many attempts to create a family. But while becoming a parent is often easy, becoming a good parent takes some work. What if parenting was more about us? And less about our children? How can we catch stress early before parenting habits are first created? Dr Levitt has experienced great success in easing the path for parents through these early months and years. He offers a complete paradigm shift in his approach to babies. The newborn baby’s progressive, neurological development is completely different from the baby after four months, and therefore requires a different parental mindset. For the baby in the first four months, the golden rule is First Calm Down. This child behaves according to inherited automatic reflexes, so the parents are freed from the need to ‘fix’ the distressed baby, and can learn to meet the baby’s needs in the moment. Dr Levitt guides parents though the desire to become the ‘best parent’, and gives practical approaches to colic, reflux, feeding and sleep. Seven strategies are explored, encouraging parents to withdraw from the specific issue with their baby and instead use one of these broad approaches to simplify parenting. For parents of a young baby, their family and friends, this is an indispensable guide to the basics of parenting babies without stress.