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Infants and Mothers: Differences in Development

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Although the descriptions of different babies' development & temperment were somewhat interesting, this book is completely out-of-date. The photos and some of the advice was so old-fashioned (i.e. letting babies sleep on their stomachs, feeding healthy babies "sugar water" to delay feedings) that it was distracting. This book needs a major overhaul to make it worth the $17 pricetag. I returned it.

I bought this book years ago when my children were born. Five children and twenty five years later, it is my favorite baby gift especially for a first time mother.

The book describes three different infants and their temperments so clearly that no matter what kind of a baby you have, you will find your child somewhere in the book. For a first time mother, when variations of childrens sleeping, eating, and temperments are so different, it is reassuring to know that the one in your crib is as healthy and normal as the rest.

This book does what few childcare books do: reassures the parent that their child's natural developmental timing is OK. I used this book often to look at the great latitude in development at various ages. The descriptions of the babies and mothers' reactions to them are great.

This is not a book about receipes. It is better than that. It tells you stories, as examples, of things babies might do, or not, how they might behave, or not, etc...., a various ages. Do not use this book to tick boxes: use it as one reference to make you think yourself about what you see, and how you may best interact with and support your baby. And if you think the book is outdated, you may want to check how many times the good "receipes" about babies (like sleep on the back, or the tummy, or on the side?) have changed and changed again over the years. Actually we all, today's readers, have surely been raised as babies under "receipes" which today would be "wrong". How are you doing?

Dr. Brazelton tells you. Really.

the genius of this book is that he categorizes

the active baby
the average baby
the quiet baby

He Knows! Depending on your baby's temperament, they are Very Different Experiences during that first year...

i read this when i was first pregnant and it ushered me into a sense of what it would really be like to be responsible for a baby, and not just babySITTING!

then i read the chapter on each month as my daughter grew...

i'm sure i appreciated the wonder of what was unfolding before my eyes every day more than i might have if i'd gotten lost in the neverending feeding, changing diapers chore part over and over again...

it was a Great Gift - and boon to my own confidence as a new mom - that year.

also, somehow between the lines, Dr. Brazelton gets the message across that You Can't Do It Wrong... you are that baby's mother and so by definition, you're doing it right...

there's a new pediatrician who has a book about how to get an infant to stop crying - something like the Happiest Baby on The Block...

that - and this book - are my two favorite essentials.

This book helped me realize that normal is different for every baby. My mother told me I was a bad mother because my baby wasn't developing according to her time table. After reading this book, I realized my son was normal I was a good mother, and he tuned out just fine. I buy this book for every one of my friends expecting a baby and all of them love the book also!

I read this 31 years ago when my daughter was an infant. Now I'm reading it again as I'm a new grandma!

I am another heath care professional, but when it came to being a mother in 1981, I was a blithering idiot. In 2009 I find that child I reared with Dr. Brazelton's guidance is now going to be rearing children (dare I say my grand babies?) of her own!! She did not die by being put on her tummy, but she was more comfortable there and far less colicky. To another reviewer I would suggest you read the book with a different eye. All children are different.

As I passed on my copy of Dr. Brazelton's book to my friends long ago, I just purchased another for my daughter and her husband so she may benefit from his wisdom and rear her kids with as much of his wisdom as I did.

Grandparents, buy the book for your children!

Full of outdated advice such as putting baby to sleep on his stomach, scheduling feedings and leaving a newborn to "cry it out." Also focuses on the worst experiences of new mothers. It's important for struggling new mothers to know that they are not alone in their doubts, fears and resentments, but I found it very disheartening to read about these mothers (and fathers) who fantasize about escaping the demands of motherhood by "accidentally" dropping or drowning the baby and who resent, dislike and ignore (that is, neglect) their newborns. I recommend either The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two / by William and Martha Sears or Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 / by American Academy Of Pediatrics instead.

Not much to say. I loved this book when I had my kids; don't think the kiddos have changed much in 30 years. I loved what he had to say. I home my DIL loves it and profits by it too. She did say that there is lots about being pregnant, but not too much on the development of the little guy when he gets here.