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The Pediatrician's New Baby Owner's Manual: Your Guide to the Care & Fine-Tuning of Your New Baby

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This is a concise, well written and practical book, that Parents and Grandparents can use to get quick information on how to raise their child. Any family that does not have a grandparent or other older relative near by to help in the first few years, will benefit from having this book as an easy reference.

This little book has such an adorable cover I've bought at least 10 for baby-shower gifts and just stuck on a big bow! They've always been a hit, especially with younger mothers who feel intimidated by those books with the endless charts of average heights and weights, etc. The contents are just as attractive as the cover, as Doctor Weinberg covers every topic about babies from how to feed them, dress them, toilet-train them, right thru the vaccinations and childhood sickness, into the teen-age years. There are great little bullet points with advice on almost every page, and every subject. I'm a dedicated mother and I found nothing to argue with. All in a book small enough to throw in a diaper bag and take to the park. This book will also appeal to people who may not have the inclination or habit of reading books at all. Every baby deserves informed parents, and this book is a worthy addition to anybody's library.

I found this book to be very informative and full of practical advice. Some reviewers freaked out about certain statements made in the book-but I personally didn't see anything wrong with his experienced viewpoint. Especially, the part about trusting your insticts and the breastfeeding advice. With my first child,I wish I had more confidence and could have stopped breastfeeding after I knew she was full (instead of sinking into depression after breastfeeding my colicky child nearly non-stop). He is right in line with what my muffled insticts said- and now say proudly. Overall, I felt this was a wonderful book.

It's nice to finally find a book with helpful advice that you can find easily. I found that when my children got sick or had a problem (usually in the middle of the night), I'd turn to the larger books "table of contents" and not find exactly what I was looking for, or shown 5 different places in the book to look and none of them for what I needed... Then came along Dr. Weinberg's book.. very basic, easy to find guidance. What a lifesaver for any new mom...
Note - Some of the advice he gives is not what doctors are suggesting any longer, but my feeling is common sense... that's what he advises!

Dr. Weinberg really knows what he's talking about! This book will help new parents feel not-so-retarded and take a lot of stress out of parenting.

I find the authors lack of compassion for infants emotions disturbing. Focuses way too much on making life convenient for parents and controlling baby. The breastfeeding advice is outdated and highly inaccurate. Following the advice of this book could lead to a lot of problems.

The author may be a pediatrician, but he is not obviously up to date on new information. Some of the advice he gives is not even advised nowadays.

First off, he starts his book by saying that mothers have depended too much on baby care books and not enough on their intution, and that whatever the parent feels is right for them and their baby, they should go ahead and do,but then the author goes on to tell parents and mothers how to raise their kids!

He gives so much outdated information that it's ridiculous.He advises breast-feeding mothers to only nurse 20 minutes at a time, 5 minutes per side and then says that if you nurse more than this, your baby is only using you as a pacifier and you shouldn't allow it! He goes on to say that formula feeding is fine if you just don't feel like it and that ANY formula will do and even gives a recipe for making your own! Pediatricians nowadays advise against this and say that it is dangerous to do.Then he advises using a pacifier "So the parents can have hours of peace and quiet"! That is not a good enough reason.If all you use it for is to get peace and quiet, why have a baby? Then he advises giving rice cereal to 3 week old baby's to help them sleep through the night, which many doctors tell you does NOT work and is also not safe because infants can't swallow solids very well, but he advises waiting to start solids at 6 months, BIG contridiction! Lastly, he says that you should put your baby to sleep on his side and not his back because he might choke to death on vomit! Again, they advise now to put them on their backs and not their sides and say there is no evidence that they will choke.

Well I agree that he is up to date on SOME information, like the chicken pox vaccine, he is way off on most of the other information.I advise new mothers to skip this book.There are many other books that are more up to date then this and even better suggest that you trust your instincts!. Nancy