Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 649.122 EAN: 9780316778008 ISBN: 0316778001 Label: Little, Brown and Company Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 769 Publication Date: 2003-03 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Sales Rank: 339 Studio: Little, Brown and Company
Product Description: Brought thoroughly up-to-date-with the latest information on everything from diapering to daycare, from midwifery to hospital 'birthing rooms,' from postpartum nutrition to infant development-THE BABY BOOK remains the one must-have resource for today's new parents.
In this perennially bestselling and encyclopedic guide, Dr. Bill and Martha Sears draw from their vast experience both as medical professionals and as parents to provide authoritative, comprehensive information on virtually every aspect of infant care. THE BABY BOOK focuses on the essential needs of babies-eating, sleeping, development, health, and comfort-as it addresses the questions of greatest concern to parents today.
Amazon.com Review: In their excellent (and hefty) resource guide, The Baby Book, attachment parenting specialists William Sears and Martha Sears have provided new parents with their approach to every aspect of baby care basics, from newborns to toddlers. Attachment parenting is a gentle, reasonable approach to parenting that stresses bonding with your baby, responding to her cues, breastfeeding, 'wearing' your baby, and sharing sleep with your child. For those parents who worry about negative effects of this attention, the Sears say, 'Spoiling is what happens when you leave something (or some person) alone on the shelf--it spoils.'
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Rating: - Wonderful book
This is a wonderful book for complete baby care. I bought it a month before my due date and I wish I had read it before my baby was born (it would have saved a lot of heartaches in the early months). I thought I can reference to it whenever I need, but little did I know there's simply no time for any reading. Now after 10 months, I start to read it and there are so many things I wish I had done differently. The only thing is it's so big and bulky, but with all the information, I guess you just can't make it compact.
Rating: - Lots of Info, Heavy on the guilt
First I will say that Dr. Sears sincerely loves kids (he has 8, I think) and that I really believe that he and his wife think they are giving the best advice available. And, no one can deny that they have a lot of usful information in their books...everything from feeding your infant/toddler, to nighttime issues, to medical issues, and beyond. They also cover the birthing process to a point (and make it clear that they feel anything but a natural birth is bad parenting).
They are heavy on Attachment Parenting (in fact, I think they may have been the first to call it that). In fact, I follow I myself follow many of the philosophies of Attachment Parenting (baby-wearing, co-sleeping, holding when crying, etc.)But just because I parent that way doesn't mean the rest of the world will fail at being parents if they don't. Unforunately, while the book does talk about 'other ways' to raise your child, they ... Read More
Rating: - finally i'm a "good mother"
(wife of Mark)I swear by this book. When I brought my little girl home from the hospital the only way she would sleep was on my chest. (I had a c-section, so I wanted to bond the best I could, and I did not hesitate to let her sleep there). After reading plenty of other books on how to get my girl to sleep on her own, and being called an "accidental parent, by relying on other vices" to get her to sleep, I felt despressed. Every book told me I was not a good mother for letting her rely on me, and "mechanical mothers" aka swings and bouncies to sleep soundly. I finally gave up and let her sleep with me in my bed. When I picked up this book and started reading the sleep section I felt relieved! It advocated cosleeping. It did NOT say it was the only way, just that it was encouraged, and perfectly fine to do so. I also had trouble understanding why my daughter wanted to nurse so often. other book told me I was crfeating ... Read More
Rating: - CAUTION NEW PARENTS
I was very excited about this book when I first bought it and followed Dr. Sears' advice to the letter. It presents a warm and fuzzy, loving parenting style that greatly appealed to me and echoed many of the tenets of parenting that I believe in. I found the chapters on Developmental Milestones and Nutrition/Introducing Solid Foods to be very valuable and the sketches to be beautiful and hilariously lifelike (hence the 2 stars). The primary complaint that I came across from other user reviews was the amount of time that was required and the difficulties of trying to fit this parenting method into a working lifestyle; but since I chose to take a year off from work to be with my baby I didn't feel like this concern applied to us.
It is now six months later, and I would like to hurl this enormous book at Dr. Sears. My daughter was sleeping through the night by 6 weeks, with a rather easy-going personality, ... Read More
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