Dr Miriam Stoppard is the leading pregnancy and childcare author in the UK. She has created her own range of skincare products "Nurture" for pregnant women, Tomy toys, a baby feeding cup and magazines. She has published more than fifty books including the bestseller Conception, Pregnancy and Birth, Your New Baby and Family Health Guide, all with DK. Miriam is currently a columnist for The Mirror and resides in London.

Home first-aid: first aid supplies, useful equipment, complementary remedies; using dressing and bandages. Principles of first-aid: what to do in the event of an incident; monitoring vital signs. Emergency treatments: unconsciousness; ABC of resuscitation, plan of action; unconscious baby; checking consciousness and breathing, giving a baby rescue breaths, giving a baby CPR; unconscious toddler; checking consciousness and breathing, giving a toddle rescue breaths, giving a toddler CPR; breathing difficulties; choking baby, chocking toddler. Breathing difficulties: asthma; croup; suffocation and strangulation; drowning; chest wound, winding; extreme allergic reaction; shock. Wounds and bleeding: cuts and grazes, bruises; mouth wound, knocked-out tooth, nosebleed; eye wounds, ear wound, blisters; serious bleeding. Treating burns: burns, clothing on fire, chemical burns; electrical burn, sunburn. Head injury: scalp wounds; concussion and compression. Bites and stings: animal bites, insect strings, stings from a sea creature. Foreign objects: splinter, foreign object in ear, eye, nose - swallowed foreign object. Bones, joints and muscles: broken bones, arm or hand injury, leg injury; sprains and strains; spine injury. Extremes of temperature: heat rash, heat exhaustion; heat stroke, hypothermia. Poisoning: treating poisoning; specific types of poisoning. Illness and medical problems: fever; diarrhoea and vomiting; meningitis; seizures; three-month colic, teething pain; nappy rash, ear pain. Safety in and around the home.