It’s Sunday after dark. Your baby is sick, hurt, or acting strangely, and the doctor won’t be in until tomorrow. How can you find out what to do when your healthcare professionals are unreachable? You may only need to go as far as your bookshelf. The revised edition of Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 (the American Academy of Pediatrics’ reference book for infancy through preschool), provides a wealth of authoritative child-care information in an easy-to-use format.
The first half of this hefty text serves as a comprehensive parenting manual, and includes a month-by-month guide to the first year, nutritional information, basic care instructions, and physical, emotional, and social developmental milestones for children up to 5 years old. While the American Academy of Pediatrics represents the mainstream child-rearing philosophies embraced by thousands of baby doctors, it does not reflect the entire gamut of child-rearing theory. (There’s no discussion, for instance, of breast-feeding past the first year or co-sleeping.) The second half of the book includes a thorough, easy-to-navigate emergency first-aid section, plus detailed information about childhood illnesses, immunization schedules and side effects, and family structures, as well as a discussion of behavioral issues. Caring for Your Baby and Young Child is useful, sensible, and carefully researched, and makes a trustworthy addition to any parent’s bookshelf. –Ericka Lutz
Author: American Academy Of Pediatrics
Paperback: 784 pages
Company: Bantam (2004-06-22) (2004-06-22)
ISBN: 055338290X
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Reflecting the changing concerns and needs of modern parents, a new edition of this popular parent guide presents more than fifteen hundred tips to help parents cope with a new baby, toddler, or young child, covering such topics as feeding, sleep, hygiene, travel, play, and more. Original.
