The Truth About Babies

by Ian Sansom

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The Truth About Babies

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While most books about babies are either manuals crammed with milestones and measurements or sentimental reflections on the nature of parenthood, The Truth About Babies is a book both honest and unique. It is written as a series of alphabetic meditations on every aspect of the first year of life - from the Apgar Test to zippers, and everything in between, from bath-times to double buggies. Sansom's own sharp and tender observations are juxtaposed with those of other thinkers and writers: Nabokov on the experience of pushing a pram, D.H. Lawrence on holding a sleeping child, Ted Hughes on nappies and other examples of the wise and the bizarre from the Bible, from literature, history, pop, culture and folklore.