What Your Baby Wants You to Know: The Art and Science of Bonding with Your Child (Hardback) - Marie Derome

Let your baby take the lead and learn how to communicate with them from birth to toddlerhood in this practical parenting book by child psychotherapist Marie Derome.

'A very insightful book, with tips and ideas useful for all parents' - Manon Lagreve

Long before they can speak, our babies are brilliant communicators. They tell us - with their eyes and mouths, their little arms and legs, and all their funny noises - just how they feel and what they need. All we have to do as parents is listen.

For child psychotherapist and mother of four Marie Derome, parenting is not about imposing 'rules' on our babies. Rather, it is about being attentive, curious and ready to discover who our babies are so we can truly get to know them.

Drawing on her clinical practice, alongside the latest neuroscientific findings, Marie shows us how to strengthen the bond we have with our babies in a new and empowering way. She also offers helpful insights to get us back on track when we feel exhausted and overwhelmed, and when loving our babies is not so easy.

In What Your Baby Wants You to Know, Marie shows us how to nurture a loving connection with our babies so that they can grow happy and resilient and we can become the confident, responsive parents we always hoped to be.

About the Author

Marie Derome is a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist and a Lecturer in Infant Observation & Child Development at Exeter University. She trained at the Tavistock Clinic in London and worked in CAMHS in Bristol. She now supports parents who are struggling to bond with their babies in her independent clinic in East Devon.
Before her career change, Marie worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC World Service and wrote for the French newspaper Liberation.
Marie, who is originally from France, lives with her husband on a small farm in Devon where they have raised their four children.