Jo Frost's Confident Baby Care: What You Need to Know for the First Year from America's Most Trusted Nanny [Paperback]

Jo Frost (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 6, 2008

For the first time, America's favorite nanny brings all her warmth, love, and experience to bear on that most crucial and worrisome time: a baby's first twelve months.

With her unique blend of humor and empathy, Jo Frost gives parents the practical information and emotional support they need to embrace the challenge of their baby's first year. She offers clear guidance to help moms and dads become the joyful, confident parents that make a family--and little ones--truly flourish.

Packed with tips, practical information, and incredibly reassuring advice, this book tells you how to:

• Sort out the essential equipment you need to buy before the birth
• Babyproof your home
• Set up for routines, feeding, sleeping, and development
• Deal with premature and multiple births, as well as adopted babies
• Make confident choices about going back to work, day care, and nannies
• Cope with breastfeeding and weaning

Covering the key issues of the first twelve months, including growth charts, vaccinations, and first aid, Confident Baby Care is the perfect book for any new parent!

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Frost, star of ABC television's Supernanny (and author of a book by the same title) has no formal training, but viewers and readers alike eagerly tune in to her commonsense advice on parenting, and no doubt this latest effort will be well received by her followers. Frost focuses on the first year of life, addressing the concerns that arise in three-month intervals as a baby grows. Noting that she began her 17-year career by caring for newborns, the author presents her softer side, discarding the professorial glasses and stern expressions of earlier book covers. But this nanny still is fond of order; she includes charts for sleep routines (no catnap before bedtime), feeding and weaning schedules. Frost offers useful tips about preparing the nursery, buying equipment and dealing with emotional issues such as postpartum blues. No surprise, when it comes to help after baby arrives, Frost observes, If you can afford it, nothing beats the one-on-one home care a nanny gives. For those who don't have a nanny in the budget, this book—written in the confident yet caring tone Supernanny fans adore—will serve as a live-in readers can keep by their bedsides. (May)
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About the Author

Jo Frost spent more than seventeen years as a nanny, and much of this experience was in caring for infants. She continues to dedicate herself to the profession she loves through her popular ABC television show, Supernanny, her bestselling books Supernanny and Ask Supernanny, and her popular web site, JoFrost.com. She divides her time between England, her home country, and the United States.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Hyperion; ZZZ edition (May 6, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401309062
• ISBN-13: 978-1401309060
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #468,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jo Frost is one of the UK's leading childcare and baby experts. She presents the hit TV show Supernanny and has become the nation's preferred nanny.

Customer Reviews

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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A nice addition to your library, May 13, 2008

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Julie Neal (Sanibel Island, Fla.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jo Frost's Confident Baby Care: What You Need to Know for the First Year from America's Most Trusted Nanny (Paperback)

It covers all the important bases, but this book doesn't have the authoritative tone and depth of the classic childcare books such as Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care or Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five by Penelope Leach. As an additional volume though, it's just fine.

The book has a whiff of cheap about it. The unsophisticated design incorporates no color photographs (the Leach book above has over 350) and less than a dozen black and white images.

The advice, however, is sound. Throughout the book are boxed "Need to Know" items on topics such as the steps to administering medicine to a baby and when to call the doctor.

Here's the chapter list:

Part 1: Before Baby's Born
* Becoming confident parents
* Making confident first choices
* Essential equipment for provisioning your baby

Part 2: Baby's Here!
* Zero to three months
* Three to six months
* Six to nine months
* Nine to twelve months

Part 3: Exceptional Circumstances
* Multiple births
* Preemies and other special needs
* The adopted baby

Part 4: Tidying Up: Resource Guides
* Growth charts
* Immunization schedule
* Common illnesses and ailments in babies
* Meningitis
* Emergency first aid for children under one
* First aid kit
* Toys for the first year
* Useful resources
* Baby log

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A God Send...wonderful book!!!, May 17, 2008

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I just got this book a couple of weeks ago. Already I have implemented a feeding routine for my 3 month old. He is taking to it wonderfully. I have also read great advice on different issues, such as crying, nap times, etc. What is wonderful is that Jo breaks the age groups up so that you can tailor your parenting to that age group. I was so glad to recieve the book while he is still young, so that I may implement the different routines (feeding, sleep, play time) as he grows.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I highly recommend it, October 28, 2010

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I wish I have found this this book BEFORE my babies were born. I highly recommend it specialy for parents for the first time, I bought it when my triplets where 5 months old, but still it was a great help.
In other books about "the first year of your baby" concentrate only on how your baby is going to develop, what is he/she going to do at certain age, but this book is about how to understand and take care of your baby, its a very different approach.
If your hesitating about getting this book... stop doin it and buy it. It's also a great gifto to give your friends or family, but remember to give it at least one month before deadline.