Motherhood is one of the most rewarding roles a person can have and one of the most complex, bringing trials and challenges that no single volume can cover fully. This book is honest about that from the first page, which is a good sign in a parenting book.
What It Provides
An overview of the mother's role, and the basics of caring for babies and small children. As a preparation guide for expectant mothers it teaches a great many practical things — how to prepare, and what to expect — which is exactly the material a first-time mother has no way to acquire in advance.
Written for Fathers Too
The book is explicit that it is also a parenting guide for concerned fathers and husbands, who will have to care for these children as well.
That inclusion is worth noting. A very large proportion of parenting literature addresses mothers alone, which quietly reinforces the assumption that the work belongs to one parent. This book does not.
Where It Points the Reader Next
Its closing advice is the most useful thing in it. The author hopes that readers will go beyond the book to learn everything they can — from the teachings of Islam, from the voices of experience their own mothers and grandmothers carry, and from exchanging ideas with other parents. Doctors, public health nurses and other professionals are to be added to a mother's support system rather than treated as an alternative to it.
And over and above all of it: a Muslim mother can and must put her trust in Allah and seek His help and guidance. A book that tells you plainly where its own limits are is more trustworthy than one that does not.
Who It Is For
Expectant mothers, and their husbands. New parents in the first two years. Grandparents and relatives who will be helping. Widely bought as a gift for a first pregnancy.
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