Best Baby Products, 10th Edition (Consumer Reports Best Baby Products) [Paperback]

Editors of Consumer Reports (Author), Sandra Gordon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 12, 2009 | Series: Consumer Reports Best Baby Products

With hundreds of baby products in the market today, protecting your baby should be your number one priority. Consumer Reports Best Baby Products is the perfect personal baby shopping consultant. Over the years, this invaluable guide has helped thousands of new parents navigate the multitude of complex and sophisticated baby products, pointing them to the best products, and steering them away from the less-than-the-best.

Written with warmth, wit and authority, Best Baby Products will help alleviate some of the anxieties caused by all the concerns and questions running through the minds of new parents. Consumer Reports buying advice and ratings allows buyers to streamline the selection process, avoid shopping pitfalls, and help keep the baby budget in balance. This newly revised edition includes:

• Helpful tips on “building” the baby’s nursery from crib to diaper bag

• Ratings of car seats, carriers, play yards, and travel systems

• Recent safety recalls and articles regarding safety

• The most commonly prescribed medications for babies

• Childproofing and home-safety tips

• Shopping guides to websites, catalogs, and stores

• Checklists and worksheets to help organize the shopping process.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Best Baby Products comes to you from CONSUMER REPORTS, the testing and consumer information source best known for product ratings and buying guidance. Since 1936, the mission of Consumer Reports has been to test products, inform the public, and protect consumers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Consumer Reports; 10 Org edition (May 12, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933524243
• ISBN-13: 978-1933524245
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #257,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sandra J. Gordon (www.babyproductsmom.com) is the author of eight books, including the 8th, 9th, and 10th editions of Consumer Reports Best Baby Products. She also writes about health, nutrition, parenting, and child safety. Her other books include The Reunion Diet (Sunrise River Press, 2010), Heart to Heart: A Personal Plan for Creating a Heart-Healthy Family (HCI, 2005), The Shy Single (Rodale, 2004), The Aging Eye (Simon & Schuster, 2001), and The 30 Secrets of the World's Healthiest Cuisines (John Wiley, 2000).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NOT Up to Date!, June 8, 2009

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Ian Groves (New Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Baby Products, 10th Edition (Consumer Reports Best Baby Products) (Paperback)

I bought this book expecting to see updated ratings/reviews on products as we are expecting our first child and was very disappointed that some of the few sections with ratings were from over 2 years ago (April 2007). For example the stroller section (the specific reason I bought the book) contains the exact same ratings on the website that have not been updated since April 2007. I am a subscriber to [...], and was frustrated that they had not updated their stroller rating since the the last publication of this book in April 2007, and I finally broke down and bought this book and could not believe that the same, stale ratings were in the stroller section. Be careful, there are very old ratings in here, you can get all the same info if you join the website for a month and print them out!

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Looking for Consumer Reports? You won't find it here., January 30, 2010

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This review is from: Best Baby Products, 10th Edition (Consumer Reports Best Baby Products) (Paperback)

I was VERY disappointed in this book. I bought this book expecting to find an all inclusive list of baby products and how they stacked up against each other. Instead, what I got was a very general information about baby products. For instance, the book might say "buy a new crib, not used...make sure there are no loose parts...make sure the slats aren't too far apart". However, there are few actual brand/product recommendations. The book does not come out and tell you which brands did well in safety testing and which didn't. In the section about car seats, the book spends a paragraph listing different brands of carseats but doesn't go into any details or ratings on any of them. Heck, I can walk through the aisles of any store and see the different brands out there. I was looking for more concrete information. The actual "consumer report" chart that you are used to seeing in the consumer reports magazines aren't included in every chapter and when they are, there are only a few products in them. I trusted the ConsumerReports name brand on this one and I feel like they pulled a quick one with this book.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent baby gear and safety resource, June 23, 2009

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R. Agababian (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Baby Products, 10th Edition (Consumer Reports Best Baby Products) (Paperback)

I've read other baby-gear books, but Consumer Reports Best Baby Products is by far the best for providing detailed how-to buy advice. I've just started using it to research what to buy for my baby and what to register for and it has been invaluable for what not to buy as well. There's so much stuff out there. I've already saved a ton of money by not buying a crib bumper set, as the book suggested, or the $789 stroller I had my eye on. The book says that quality strollers start at around $150. I don't know what I'd do without this book. I'm so glad my neighbor, who is a mom herself and a pediatrician, recommended it to me. You can't go wrong with Consumer Reports trusted advice, either.