How to Survive Your Baby's First Year: By Hundreds of Happy Moms and Dads Who Did and Some Things to Avoid, From a Few Who Barely Made It (Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides) [Paperback]

Hundreds of Heads (Author), Lori Banov Kaufmann (Author), Yadin Kaufmann (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2004 | Series: Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides

How to Survive Your Baby’s First Year is here to help make that first year with a new baby a lot easier. The book offers advice from hundreds of parents who have made it through the first year with their own babies and lived to share the secrets of their success.

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About the Author

The editors, husband and wife team, Lori Banov Kaufmann and Yadin Kaufmann met at Harvard and, with their mutual love of adventure and books, co-authored together The Boston Ice Cream Lover’s Guide. They have an ongoing collaboration of parenting four children, now ages three to nineteen years old.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Hundreds of Heads Books (December 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974629227
• ISBN-13: 978-0974629223
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,907,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy and good read, October 29, 2005

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Jeannine "Jeannine" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Survive Your Baby's First Year: By Hundreds of Happy Moms and Dads Who Did and Some Things to Avoid, From a Few Who Barely Made It (Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides) (Paperback)

I don't have time to read a book cover-to-cover, so I appreciated 'How to Survive Your Baby's First Year'. I keep it on the night-table by my bed and read a few tips/stories every night. This book isn't meant to be an expert driven in-depth exploration of how to care for your baby. It's meant to share some good advice from real moms and dads on how to get through the first year with your new baby - and it does that well.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What to Read When You are Reading the "so called" experts, January 23, 2005

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Sophie's Dad "John" (Bismark, ND) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Survive Your Baby's First Year: By Hundreds of Happy Moms and Dads Who Did and Some Things to Avoid, From a Few Who Barely Made It (Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides) (Paperback)

What a pleasant surprise. I was given this book and figured it would be like all the other baby books...i.e. they make you crazy. In the other books some expert tells you how exactly your child will develop and how you should respond. That's not real life.

Every child is different (as is every parent) and that is the strength of this book. The editors have interviewed hundreds of parents who have been through the same new born child experience. They share great and different advice. It is quite frankly a relief to know that there isn't just one way and that other parents share the doubts and experiences that the rest of us do. I highly recommend adding How to Survive Your Baby's First Year to your library.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay as a fun read..., August 28, 2005

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K. Thompson (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Survive Your Baby's First Year: By Hundreds of Happy Moms and Dads Who Did and Some Things to Avoid, From a Few Who Barely Made It (Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides) (Paperback)

I think I got the wrong impression when I bought this book, I thought it would be a little more informative then it was. Most of the comments from other parents are "inspirational," not educational. I was looking for the book to actually give tips on infant care, but there was only a few of them that delivered on that thought. I think it is a good read only as entertainment.