Your Baby's First Year Week By Week (Your Pregnancy Series) [Paperback]

Glade Curtis (Author), Judith Schuler (Author)

Book Description

Series: Your Pregnancy Series | Publication Date: September 5, 2000

From the authors of the million-copy best seller Your Pregnancy Week by Week, a comforting companion volume detailing baby's first twelve months in the world.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Glade B. Curtis, M.D., M.P.H., is board-certified by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the father of five. He lives in Utah. Judith Schuler, M.S., has worked and cowritten books with Dr. Curtis for more than twenty years. Ms. Schuler divides her time between homes in Wyoming and Arizona.

Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press; Book only edition (September 5, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555612326
• ISBN-13: 978-1555612320
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (130 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #976,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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46 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The *only* book I've ever thrown away., January 8, 2007

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eurobin (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Baby's First Year: Week By Week (Your Pregnancy Series), Second Edition (Paperback)

I tried to like this book. I enjoyed following along with my pregnancy each week and looked forward to reading a little about what to expect each week during my daughter's first year. But by the time she was 5 months old, I'd been instructed to let my baby cry-it-out, told I had to start solids or she'd never learn to eat on her own, and instructed that now was a good time to wean her from the breast to formula. Much of the advice in this book directly contradicts with what the AAP recommends, and even more of it contradicts with my mommy instincts. There are many great childrearing books out there, from the attachment parenting based Baby Book from Dr. Sears to the sound, mainstream advice from the AAP in Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5. Please, please - look elsewhere for a parenting book.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What a disappointment..., September 21, 2005

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Indibean (CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Baby's First Year Week By Week (Your Pregnancy Series) (Paperback)

Let me start by saying I had no less than 4 books I consulted on a regular basis during my pregnancy and my favorite was the week to week guide. This book was a huge disappointment.
Not only do the weeks not always correspond to the age of the child (weeks vs. months), but I found that a lot of the milestones were a little ambitious as well. The book also comes across as very judgemental (baby swings are known as neglect-o-matics & cosutmes can scare a baby so keep him home on halloween) and gives you things to worry about without telling you why (to soothe a baby you can swing them, but don't bounce!). I think the book should offer advice and then it's up to me to figure out what to do.
At first I thought it was just me being post-partum and sensitive but my baby is 13 weeks old now and I can see, the book is just not helpful. Buy "What to Expect the First Year". It gives enough information without making you worry about every little thing and gives you enough information to make an informed desicion without telling you what to do.

38 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars For HORRIBLE advice it's a must read!, November 26, 2004

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mhsa2mom - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Baby's First Year Week By Week (Your Pregnancy Series) (Paperback)

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone! Several of their recommendations are not only against the advice of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization, they would be detrimental to the physical and emotional development of a baby. Examples:
1. They mention introducing foods to babies at 4 months
2. They suggest that at 5 months moms may want to switch the baby over from breastmilk to formula
3. They downplay breastfeeding throughout the book
4. They give the Ferber method as a way of training a baby to sleep

Not to mention they give ridiculous timetables for babies' development. I usually "recycle" books I read by selling them on amazon.com, giving them to libraries, or giving them to women's shelters, but in good conscience I can't let this book be read again, so it's going in the trash.

If you're looking for a good baby development book, read Penelope Leach's "Your Baby and Child"--it's wonderful and she gives solid advice and encouragement.