Great expectations: baby's first year

✍ Scribed by Jones, Sandy;Jones, Marcie

• Publisher: GMC Distribution [distributor], Sterling
• Year: 2007;2010
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Expectant mothers snapped up Great Expectations: Your All-in-One Resource for Pregnancy & Childbirth (135,000 copies sold), and reviewers praised it for its warm, reassuring voice of expertise. This is the logical follow-up, an innovative baby book that will guide and reassure new moms and dads through every nuance of the first 12 months of life with baby. Of course, it maintains all the design elements that are the signature of the Great Expectations series and have proven so appealing: innovative graphics; clear-cut, contemporary styling; and sensitive drawings of babies as they develop month-by-month. The text, too, continues that same friendly, supportive, parent-to-parent tone of the earlier book—but now with dads playing an integral role.

Inside, there's a plethora of information on the nuts and bolts of feeding, diaper changing, and immunizations, as well as cutting-edge research on baby intelligence and development, nutrition and medical care, and...

✦ Table of Contents

Note from Dr. Michael Crocetti --
Word from the Authors --
Chapter 1. Your Baby's First Half-Year --
Last Weeks of Pregnancy --
Labor and Birth --
Your Newborn --
First Half-Year --
Day 1 through Day 7 --
Week 2 through Week 7 --
Month 2 through Month 5 --
Chapter 2. Your Baby's Second Half-Year --
Second Half-Year --
Month 6 through Month 12 --
Chapter 3. Your Baby Maintenance Guide --
Newborn Basics --
Keeping Your Baby Warm --
Your Guide to Feeding Your Baby --
Breastfeeding --
Bottle Feeding --
Starting Solids --
Baby-Care Basics --
Diapering 101 --
Bathing Your Baby --
Common Baby Skin Problems --
Baby Sleep --
Baby Dental Care Guide --
Crying --
Chapter 4. Gear Guide --
Our Baby-Shopping Primer --
Baby Shopping Checklist --
Baby Gear A-Z --
Chapter 5. Managing Your First Year --
Recovering from the Birth --
Sweatiness and Hot and Cold Flashes --
Heavy Flow --
Bathroom Woes --
Breast Changes --
Postpartum Skin Changes --
Don't Ignore These Postpartum Symptoms --
First Six Weeks of Recovery --
Your Recovery After a Cesarean Section --
Psychological Side of Motherhood --
Blues --
Professionals You May Encounter --
Managing Relationships After Birth --
Sex After Birth --
Flipside: Single Parenting --
Getting Along With Grandparents and Other Relatives --
When Baby Makes Four or Five --
Siblings --
Baby-Proofing Your Pets --
Six Weeks to Six Months --
Building Your Own Village --
Your Fitness: The First Six Months --
Returning to Work --
Stay-At-Home-Mom Option --
Where to Connect with Other Moms --
Second Six Months --
Finances of Parenting --
Twenty-Five Ideas for Saving Thousands of Dollars --
Recording Your Baby's First Year --
Traveling With a Baby --
Chapter 6. Medical and Safety Guide --
Baby Medical Guide --
How to Choose Your Baby's Doctor --
Baby's First Doctor's Visit --
Birth Defects --
Month 2 Doctor's Visit --
Month 4 Doctor's Visit --
Month 6 Doctor's Visit --
Month 12 Doctor's Visit --
Your Baby's Immunization Schedule --
Your Baby and Illness --
Early Symptoms of Illness --
How to Give Your Baby Medicine --
Baby Illnesses A-Z --
Baby Safety Guide --
Accident-Proofing Your Baby --
Treating Baby Injuries --
Baby Product Dangers --
Chapter 7. Resource Guide --
Helpful Web Sites for Parents --
Chapter 8. Parent's Dictionary --
Parent's Dictionary.

✦ Subjects

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