Caring for Your Baby and Young Child : Birth to Age 5
by: American Academy Of Pediatrics
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Amazon.com Review:
It's Sunday after dark. Your baby is sick, hurt, or actingstrangely, and the doctor won't be in until tomorrow. How can you findout what to do when your healthcare professionals are unreachable? Youmay only need to go as far as your bookshelf. The revised edition ofCaring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 (theAmerican Academy of Pediatrics' reference book for infancy throughpreschool), provides a wealth of authoritative child-care informationin an easy-to-use format.
The first half of this hefty text serves as a comprehensive parentingmanual, and includes a month-by-month guide to the first year,nutritional information, basic care instructions, and physical,emotional, and social developmental milestones for children up to 5years old. While the American Academy of Pediatrics represents themainstream child-rearing philosophies embraced by thousands of babydoctors, it does not reflect the entire gamut of child-rearingtheory. (There's no discussion, for instance, of breast-feeding pastthe first year or co-sleeping.) The second half of the book includes athorough, easy-to-navigate emergency first-aid section, plus detailedinformation about childhood illnesses, immunization schedules and sideeffects, and family structures, as well as a discussion of behavioralissues. Caring for Your Baby and Young Child is useful,sensible, and carefully researched, and makes a trustworthy additionto any parent's bookshelf. --Ericka Lutz
Product Description:
While Caring for Your Baby and Young Child is updated for accuracy at every printing, this new edition is based on a cover-to-cover review by the AAP editorial board and includes:
It's Sunday after dark. Your baby is sick, hurt, or actingstrangely, and the doctor won't be in until tomorrow. How can you findout what to do when your healthcare professionals are unreachable? Youmay only need to go as far as your bookshelf. The revised edition ofCaring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 (theAmerican Academy of Pediatrics' reference book for infancy throughpreschool), provides a wealth of authoritative child-care informationin an easy-to-use format.
The first half of this hefty text serves as a comprehensive parentingmanual, and includes a month-by-month guide to the first year,nutritional information, basic care instructions, and physical,emotional, and social developmental milestones for children up to 5years old. While the American Academy of Pediatrics represents themainstream child-rearing philosophies embraced by thousands of babydoctors, it does not reflect the entire gamut of child-rearingtheory. (There's no discussion, for instance, of breast-feeding pastthe first year or co-sleeping.) The second half of the book includes athorough, easy-to-navigate emergency first-aid section, plus detailedinformation about childhood illnesses, immunization schedules and sideeffects, and family structures, as well as a discussion of behavioralissues. Caring for Your Baby and Young Child is useful,sensible, and carefully researched, and makes a trustworthy additionto any parent's bookshelf. --Ericka Lutz
Product Description:
While Caring for Your Baby and Young Child is updated for accuracy at every printing, this new edition is based on a cover-to-cover review by the AAP editorial board and includes:
- new, gender-neutral language throughout
- new findings on how to stimulate infant and child brain development
- expanded coverage of breastfeeding techniques and benefits
- crucial new information on air bag safety and infant car seats
- new guidelines for choosing a child-care provider
- "Where We Stand" boxes commenting on critical parenting issues
- a revised immunization schedule
- new, ethnically inclusive illustrations
- and much, much more.
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- Birth through age 5
This replaces Dr. Spock!What a great reference book for Mom's.
Great baby or shower gift.
Rating: - Just what I was looking for!
I wanted something to help answer questions about the growth and development of my toddler grandson.This was just what I was looking for.
Rating: - a must-have for any parent
wow - this book is so easy to use and gives such simple yet powerful instructions...this is the "manual" that doesn't come with kids when they're born!
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- Definitely useful
I have a two month year old, and I purchased this book a little before she was born. From a friend, I received the book "What to expect the first year". Both of these books have been useful. At this point, the latter book has been more useful because there is more focus on each month during the first year. Nonetheless, I read both of them (over and over) and I am happy that I have them both. The reason I give this book just 4 stars is because, to some extent, I occasionally find the language to be ... Read More
Rating: - This book saved us
Our daughter is 5 now, but this book saved us many times; it has everything.We have given this book to all our friends that have had children in the last five years.
- Birth through age 5This replaces Dr. Spock!What a great reference book for Mom's.
Great baby or shower gift.
- Just what I was looking for!I wanted something to help answer questions about the growth and development of my toddler grandson.This was just what I was looking for.
- a must-have for any parentwow - this book is so easy to use and gives such simple yet powerful instructions...this is the "manual" that doesn't come with kids when they're born!
- Definitely usefulI have a two month year old, and I purchased this book a little before she was born. From a friend, I received the book "What to expect the first year". Both of these books have been useful. At this point, the latter book has been more useful because there is more focus on each month during the first year. Nonetheless, I read both of them (over and over) and I am happy that I have them both. The reason I give this book just 4 stars is because, to some extent, I occasionally find the language to be ... Read More
- This book saved usOur daughter is 5 now, but this book saved us many times; it has everything.We have given this book to all our friends that have had children in the last five years.
