What to Expect the First Year, Second Ed
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What to Expect the First Year, Second Ed Is our baby eating enough? Is this much crying normal? How do I know when she is really sick? This hefty, 671-page guide to your baby’s first year is brought to you by the creators of the bestselling What to Expect When You’re Expecting. The three authors, all mothers themselves, are calm, clear, and encouraging as they tackle the first year of child-rearing, month by month. The easy-to-absorb, chronological format includes sections such as “What Your Baby May Be Doing,” “What You Can Expect at This Month’s Checkups,” “Feeding Your Baby This Month,” “What You May Be Concerned About,” and “What It’s Important to Know.”
Part Two addresses special concerns such as illness, first aid do’s and don’ts, the low-birthweight baby, the adopted baby, becoming a father, and sibling relationships. You’ll also find discussions of breastfeeding and bottlefeeding, selecting a physician for the baby, diapers and clothing, safety, and many ways of stimulating the baby’s development. The recipes for babies and toddlers in Part Three are useful, as are the recommended home remedies; charts on common childhood illnesses; height and weight; and the thorough index. (A particular strength of the book is the authors’ careful attention to diet and nutrition for both mother and baby, incorporating the American Academy of Pediatrics’ latest recommendations on infant nutrition.) While some of the authors’ perspectives are controversial (such as whether to let your baby “cry it out” or not), this book remains one of the most comprehensive resources for new parents as they toddle through their baby’s first year.
Customer Review: This book is very thorough.
This book helped me out very much. Being a first time, and a single mother, I had many questions that this book was able to help me answer. I would recommend it to anyone. It is thoughtfully laid out, and takes into account that many new moms don’t have to read pages and pages on one topic. It gets right to the point, and I really appreciate that. Plus, the fact that it’s written by a doctor was very reassuring that the advice in the book was good.
Customer Review: Too rigid
By the time my daughter was six weeks old this book had disappeared into the maelstrom of dust bunnies and abandoned magazines under my bed. Skipping through it while I was still pregnant gave me a few heads ups about things I hadn’t thought about or expected, being a first time Mom with no experience of babies (not even baby sitting) but once my daughter arrived I realised quickly that reading it to gain knowledge of what to REALLY expect was pointless. Their developmental time frame is way too rigid and I can see where it might cause less confident parents to really fear their child is developmentally behind if they’re not doing the “right” things at the “right” time. It makes parenting a baby sound like a real chore, and leans too much on the problems you might have to solve rather than the joys you discover every day with a newborn. It also is heavily biased towards breast feeding and several of the feeding related articles just assume Mom is breastfeeding with little or no advice for formula babies. It’s a mistake for new parents to rely on any book(s) for their primary parenting information, but I would definitely leave this one off the bookshelf.
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