Welcoming Your Second Baby (Family & Childcare) [Paperback]

Vicki Lansky (Author)

Book Description

Series: Family & Childcare | Publication Date: June 2003

For parents, the thought of having a second child can be joyous, traumatic, or more likely both. It can be equally difficult for a displaced first child. With her trademark humor and practical advice, best-selling parenting author Vicki Lansky guides parents through the major transition from one child to two. Welcoming Your Second Baby contains hundreds of practical tips and advice for this challenging time. Topics include how to explain the coming of the new baby; listings of age-appropriate books and videos on reproduction and sibling situations; ideas for showing how love can be shared; helping a child adjust to mom's hospital stay — and return; information for today's working parent; and tips for helping an older sibling adjust, help at feeding times, and learn gentleness. Included are updated listings of services, resources, and support groups; lots of parent-tested "it worked for me" testimonials; and a complete, easy-to-use index.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Book Peddlers; Revised edition (June 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916773124
• ISBN-13: 978-0916773120
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #685,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Feed Me I'm Yours, my first book, began as a local fund raising cookbook in 1974 and turned me into an author. I thought it was the only book I'd ever write and then for a while, I thought that each new book would be my last. Was I wrong!

Along the way I also became a publisher. Feed Me I'm Yours was first published from my husband's and my home on Meadowbrook Lane (i.e., Meadowbrook Press). Our company grew very fast as we learned the publishing business. After our divorce 8 years later, I left Meadowbook Press with no plans of being a publisher again. However, as the books I wrote for others went out of print, I established my own imprint, Book Peddlers, which now publishes over half of my 30 titles...including (naturally) Vicki Lansky's Divorce Book for Parents.

When you write parenting books, everyone glances critically at your children. Thank goodness mine had the good grace to turn out well. Despite my mistakes (and they'll be the first to point them out) my thirty-something twosome have survived and thrived in spite of having had a "professional" mother. Lucky me!

I think my mother would be astonished to know that I give out cleaning and household advice to millions of people as a columnist for Family Circle magazine. After all, she 'not I' had made a career of homemaking. In 1988, when Family Circle asked me to be a contributing editor to their "Help" column, I was delighted. This would be a place for me to share "grown-up" tips. I was now moving beyond the days of needing to know that peanut butter removes gum from children's hair!

Writing about household hints has been more of an education than I ever dreamt. I'm often asked what my favorite tip is. Usually it's the one I've not heard before, which is what keeps my work so interesting. My books on Baking Soda tips and Vinegar tips have sold in the hundreds of thousands copies. Amazing. How lucky I am to be able to share so many helpful ideas...and it is good, clean FUN too.

I'm not sure of my next projects as I've decided to cut back a bit on my book life and work a little more on just my life. But I'm never far from my computer and I know there are idea gremlins scrambling around my brain waiting to escape. Stay tuned.....

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It's a big advertisement, January 16, 2000

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April Hughes "aprildawnhughes" (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Welcoming Your Second Baby (Family & Childcare) (Paperback)

I was disappointed in how small this book was, and that on every other page it was selling other books or even T-shirts! I think it could have been a lot better. The one chapter in The Girlfriend's Guide to the Toddler Years that deals with bringing another baby into the house was more insightful than this entire book.

40 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Resource for 2nd (& more) Timers!, January 6, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Welcoming Your Second Baby (Family & Childcare) (Paperback)

Vicki Lansky finally answers all of your questions about being pregnant with another baby! Everything from how to handle you toddler while pregnant to bringing that baby home!

Will you love the new baby too? Will your older child be able to handle the transition? What can you do to make the transition more smoothly? Can you move the toddler rfom the crib in time? And many more...

This information is conveinently divided into age categories and is in a nice format for quick reading when you have a few minutes!

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, April 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Welcoming Your Second Baby (Family & Childcare) (Paperback)

I had hoped this book would provide more insight and ideas. I didn't feel it really addressed preparing children based on their ages and understanding, and I wanted to know what a two-year-old will be feeling and thinking about a new baby, and I was hoping for more ideas. There are a few funny anecdotes, but overall, I didn't find anything useful.