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I was born in 1946, and lived in England as a child, except for two years in South Africa (1951-1953). I went to the Lady Eleanor Holles School, Hampton (1954 -1964), then to Newnham College, Cambridge (1964-7) where I spent too much time in the cinema and not enough in lecture rooms. After leaving university I discovered that my father was the Norwegian writer Eiliv Odd Hauge, and have since made many trips to Norway. After a few years as a film editor, I married Tom Griffith in 1969, taught for two years (Blackheath High School) and had four daughters. We divorced in 1991. Writing began with an article about my collection of historical sewing machines and reflections on family life, then, like Topsy, just grew.
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This is a much revised and enlarged new edition of a book that I first wrote to cheer myself and other parents up when I was having our [four] children. Now they are having babies of their own, and I realized that parents are more than ever in need of guidance through the jungle of conflicting advice on how to bring up babies. Dream Babies shows how advice has always changed with the times – not just because of scientific and medical discoveries but because of social and economic pressures. With over 200 illustrations, including colour sections, it puts such legendary figures as Truby King, Dr Spock, Penelope Leach and Gina Ford into perspective.
Frances Lincoln Publishers
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