What Your Baby Wants You to Know

‘The whole book is like a warm, comforting broth. However hopeless and inept you may feel as a new parent, it’s nothing [Marie] hasn’t seen before or can’t help sort out.’ – Rachel Carlyle * The Times *‘This is just the book new parents need. Beautifully and sensitively written, it also tells it like it is, outlining the joys but also the challenges of parenthood in an easy-to-read yet psychologically sophisticated way. It uses the latest research about the brain and attachment, as well as the author’s long standing experience as a therapist, but it is all wrapped up [with] many practical tips. This will be an excellent companion for any new parent.’ - Graham Music, consultant psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic and author of Nurturing Natures and Respark‘Marie’s ability to take us through the wonderous, complex, overwhelming and, at times, unfathomable journey of discovering our babies, and ourselves, is remarkable. She has delivered a faithful companion on the toughest journey most of us will ever make.’ - Dr Elizabeth Kilbey, clinical psychologist and author of Unplugged Parenting‘Marie Derome wanted to address the myths we carry as parents - and use as sticks with which to beat ourselves. Her new book, What Your Baby Wants You To Know, looks at all the factors that go into bonding and what happens when our minds don’t do what they’re instinctively supposed to do.’ – Emmeline Saunders * Daily Mirror *‘Marie translates into words everything my baby and I are feeling. This is a very insightful book which helps me navigate my baby journey, and also a very practical one, with tips and ideas useful to all parents!’ - Manon Lagreve, baker, food writer and author of Chez Manon‘Parents everywhere, read this book! From its clever title onwards, Derome’s distinct voice engages the reader with its warm, knowledgeable, reassuring tone, managing to be both user-friendly and scientifically- informed. Thus, what parent would not be relieved to hear that ambivalence towards one’s baby is entirely normal, and even helpful. Chapter by chapter, the reader comes away as if from a good therapy session - validated, challenged, and helped. Spock and Leach eat your hearts out, Derome is deservedly destined to be the go-to parenting guide for the 21st Century.’ - Professor Jeremy Holmes MD FRCPsych, University of Exeter‘A beautifully written, insightful, one-stop shop to prepare you for the journey of parenthood.’ - Shivi Ramoutar

Marie Derome is a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist and a Lecturer in Infant Observation & Child Development at Exeter University. She trained at the Tavistock Clinic in London and worked in CAMHS in Bristol. She now supports parents who are struggling to bond with their babies in her independent clinic in East Devon.

Before her career change, Marie worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC World Service and wrote for the French newspaper Liberation.

Marie, who is originally from France, lives with her husband on a small farm in Devon where they have raised their four children.