Video: Bringing home your baby

Let author, Lucy Atkins, ease your worries - bringing your baby home for the first time need not be daunting with her how-to guide

Preparing to welcome home your baby can be a scary but exciting time. This video gives you hints and tips of what to expect and those essential things you need to buy before your little one comes home.

Seeing your baby for the first time is one of the most memorable experiences in most parents’ lives, but shortly after, concerns stuck to kick in – am I holding my baby right? What will I feed him/her? How do I bath my baby properly?

How will I cope!? Parental instinct sets in quite quickly, but to give you a helping hand, Lucy Atkins, mother of three and author of ‘First Time Parent’, is here with help from the Fairy Godmothers, a panel of new mothers and mothers-to-be, to prepare you for the first 48 hours of bringing your baby home for the first time.