Publication Date: August 1, 2007 | Series: Great Expectations
Expectant mothers snapped up Great Expectations: Your All-in-One Resource for Pregnancy & Childbirth (135,000 copies sold), and reviewers praised it for its warm, reassuring voice of expertise. This is the logical follow-up, an innovative baby book that will guide and reassure new moms and dads through every nuance of the first 12 months of life with baby. Of course, it maintains all the design elements that are the signature of the Great Expectations series and have proven so appealing: innovative graphics; clear-cut, contemporary styling; and sensitive drawings of babies as they develop month-by-month. The text, too, continues that same friendly, supportive, parent-to-parent tone of the earlier book—but now with dads playing an integral role.
Inside, there’s a plethora of information on the nuts and bolts of feeding, diaper changing, and immunizations, as well as cutting-edge research on baby intelligence and development, nutrition and medical care, and insights into the dynamics of the parenting process. Checklists, bulleted sidebars, and quick-reference tables speed up the process of finding needed information. Unique tables in the extensive medical reference section will present the gamut of symptoms, so parents will have help distinguishing between common baby ailments and more serious emergencies that may require immediate attention.
Includes a foreword by Dr. Michael Crocetti, Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and also an extended resource guide and parent’s dictionary.
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As a new parent, I wanted to know exactly what to expect from my baby. The book if fantastic. It is easy to read & very detailed. I've read several (7-8) parenting, baby, or what to expect books & this one is my favorite. Some of the info is a little redundant, but detailed descriptions of development make it great. There are tips to keep your sanity, guides for baby gear, feeding your baby, and illnesses/medical guide.
I love this book. I have checked several others and I didn't buy this till after my baby was born. I wish I would have just bought this one first. It gives you a lot of information that comes in very handy, even something as not allowing your baby to cry it out because research shows that it harms the baby more than it does any good. I have had several people tell me to do things this way and that, but this book really gives you your own insight as well because babies deserve the best and only good things out there. This book revolves around that idea.
Update: I recommend this book big time, "Caring for your baby and young child, Birth to age 5 written by the American Academy of Pediatrics". This book goes over ever single thing you could possibly imagine from handling babies to a scrape on your toddler. It's a very large book packed with lots of valuable information that is great for the first time, second time or third time mom. Totally worth the buy and you won't regret it.
There are tons of books for first time parent's however this one really covered everything in a thorough neutral way. It was nice to see a chart telling when you should buy baby stuff (i.e., bouncer, high chair, stroller). As with all baby books, the information is just a suggestion and not the gospel, but I really enjoyed this, more so than the "Everything Series" book.
