About
Who writes this, how it is researched, and what we will not pretend to know.
General information, not medical advice. Every baby is different — if anything worries you, speak to your midwife, health visitor or GP rather than waiting.
Why this site exists
Search anything about a newborn and you get two kinds of result. Clinical pages that are accurate but written for professionals, and blog posts that are warm and readable but cite nothing and occasionally contradict the safety guidance outright.
First Time Mommy Guide is an attempt at the middle: plain, practical writing that stays anchored to what the health bodies actually say, with the sources linked so you can check rather than trust.
Who writes it
I’m Dilawar Mughal, the founder and editor. I research and write these guides by working through the published guidance — NHS, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the WHO — and turning it into something you can read one-handed at 3am.
I am not a doctor, a midwife or a health visitor. I want that stated on the page rather than buried in a disclaimer, because on baby health the difference matters. What I can offer is careful research, clear writing, and a source list on every claim. What I cannot offer is clinical judgement about your baby.
How the guides are researched
- Start from the guidance, not the search results. Every health topic begins with what the recognised bodies publish, not with what ranks.
- Say when guidance has changed. Infant advice moves — weaning ages, allergen introduction, sleep positioning have all shifted. Where current advice differs from what your own mother was told, we say so explicitly, because that conflict is often the real question.
- Link the sources. Health claims carry a reference list. If a claim has no source, it should not be treated as one.
- Flag the limits. Where evidence is genuinely mixed, or where the honest answer is “ask your GP”, that is what the page says.
What we will not do
- Invent experience. No fabricated “when my daughter was six months” stories. If a first-person account appears here, it is real and attributed.
- Give dosages or diagnoses. Medicine amounts, fever thresholds and “is this normal” judgements need a clinician who can see your baby.
- Let a commission change a recommendation. Some links earn us a small amount. That never determines what makes a list, and where the honest answer is “you do not need this”, that is what we write.
- Pad an answer. If the answer is one paragraph, the page is one paragraph.
Get in touch
Corrections especially welcome. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell me and I will fix it and note the change — email bsri4263@gmail.com.
Get the checklists that actually helped
The hospital bag list, the 0–3 month essentials, and the 6–12 month feeding chart — as printable PDFs. No spam, unsubscribe any time.