ABSTRACT
One's baby belongs to a wider family than just her two parents. Much of the influence one's parents will have on their baby flows through them. New parents need to work out a new relationship with their own parents. Grandparents have probably come to the end of their own child-bearing years and can often offer an unselfish parenting to the new generation and take pleasure in doing it. Parents of a new baby can find it difficult to include their own older children in their attention and help them manage their jealousy of their younger sibling. In the UK there is the system of family health clinics, popularly called 'baby clinics', often now taking place in a general practice. Baby books that give very specific advice, may rescue some parents from a feeling of not knowing what to do and make both parents and baby feel safer, with someone in charge.
