Your Amazing Newborn - Hardcover

Klaus, Marshall H.; Klaus, Phyllis H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0738200131 ISBN 13: 9780738200132

Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Your Amazing Newborn celebrates a baby's extraordinary abilities in the first hours and days of life. Marshall and Phyllis Klaus take parents and all those who care for new families into this freshly charted world, one they have been exploring for decades. The results of their fascinating research are illuminated by over 120 exquisite photographs, all of babies less than two weeks old. Your Amazing Newborn begins before birth with images of fetuses actually comforting themselves in the womb. We then see newborns less than one hour old crawling unassisted to the breast, recognizing the voices of their parents, and shutting our unwanted sights and sounds. Parents will learn how to discover an infant's clear preferences for certain shapes, smells, tastes, and tones of voice. They will be delighted by the ways babies seem to be able to ensure their own survival, and they will be amazed that within days after birth, newborns can engage in an intimate and reciprocal choreography, and nestle into a parent's embrace as though they had practiced for years. Your Amazing Newborn is a must for parents-to-be, grandparents, siblings, and caregivers; through its stunning photographs we see the first reach, the first mutual gaze--and most wonderful of all--the first spark of recognition that ignites a lifetime bond.

About this title

Synopsis

With over 120 stunning photographs all of babies less than two weeks old Your Amazing Newborn illustrates the incredible new findings of research on newborns and guides parents and caregivers through the fascinating first weeks of a babys life. Newly identified abilities are shown in astonishing photo sequences and insightful explanations. Abilities such as reaching (once considered impossible) are seen in exciting detail, along with the beautiful choreography between infants and parents, new discoveries about the five senses, the wonderful adaptation of adopted newborns, and above all that first spark of recognition that ignites a lifetime bond. } Your Amazing Newborn celebrates a babys extraordinary abilities in the first hours and days of life. Marshall and Phyllis Klaus take parents and all those who care for new families into this freshly charted world, one they have been exploring for decades. The results of their fascinating research are illuminated by over 120 exquisite photographs, all of babies less than two weeks old. Your Amazing Newborn begins before birth with images of fetuses actually comforting themselves in the womb.

We then see newborns less than one hour old crawling unassisted to the breast, recognizing the voices of their parents, and shutting our unwanted sights and sounds. Parents will learn how to discover an infants clear preferences for certain shapes, smells, tastes, and tones of voice. They will be delighted by the ways babies seem to be able to ensure their own survival, and they will be amazed that within days after birth, newborns can engage in an intimate and reciprocal choreography, and nestle into a parents embrace as though they had practiced for years. Your Amazing Newborn is a must for parents-to-be, grandparents, siblings, and caregivers; through its stunning photographs we see the first reach, the first mutual gazeand most wonderful of allthe first spark of recognition that ignites a lifetime bond. }

About the Author

Marshall H. Klaus, M.D., internationally known neonatologist and researcher, is the author or coauthor of several standard works in the field, including Bonding, Care of the High Risk Newborn, and Mothering the Mother. He teaches pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. Phyllis H. Klaus, C.S.W., M.F.C.C., teaches and practices psychotherapy at the Erikson Institute in Santa Rosa and practices in Berkeley, California. She is coauthor of Mothering the Mother, and Bonding.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0738200131
• ISBN 13: 9780738200132
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128