Your Baby's First Year for Dummies - Softcover

Gaylord, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764584200 ISBN 13: 9780764584206

Publisher: For Dummies, 2005

Synopsis

Everything new and experienced parents need to know about their baby's first 12 months to give them the best start in life

Each year, more than 4 million babies are born in the United States-and the first year of a baby's life is a joyous, challenging, and sometimes overwhelming time. Your Baby's First Year For Dummies serves as a complete guide for baby's first twelve months, from what to do when arriving home from the hospital to handling feeding, bathing, and sleeping routines to providing the right stimuli for optimal progress.

This comprehensive yet no-nonsense guide can help new or even seasoned moms and dads looking for tips and advice to help with every aspect of their baby's development. During Baby's first year, at times things will go well: Baby's sleeping and eating well, she's hitting milestones on time, and you're balancing childcare with work or with housekeeping. Then again, there are times when things aren't great. This jargon-free book takes a realistic look at what Baby's first year might be like, month by month. You'll find it helpful if you're pregnant and wondering what Baby's first year will be like; you have given birth and want to know what the months ahead hold; you have given birth and need advice from a book that doesn't talk down to you or make you feel as though there's something wrong with you (because there's not) if you're having a hard time making the adjustment to parenthood.

Packed with tips on every aspect of baby's physical, emotional, and social development, Your Baby's First Year For Dummies gives you advice on topics like the following:

• Bonding with Baby
• Breastfeeding vs. bottle-feeding
• Baby's first checkup
• Baby's checkups at two months, four months, six months, nine months, and twelve months
• Sleeping habits
• Teething
• Baby toy safety and preventing injuries
• Food preparation and food allergies
• Traveling with your baby
• Signs of common illnesses
• Planning Baby's 1-year party
• And much more

Additionally, Your Baby's First Year For Dummies provides tips for surviving the first few weeks, Daddy survival tips, and advice on when to call your pediatrician (and when not to). If Baby has arrived or you expect her soon, get your copy to make every moment count.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. James Gaylord has a dual Board Certification in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine and has been in private practice in Burnt Hills, N.Y. since 1997. He is a 1988 graduate of Albany Medical College, where he also served as an assistant professor from 1993 to 1997. His training includes a residency in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine; he also spent a year (1992-93) as chief resident in Pediatrics. He continues to train medical students in his private practice.

Michelle Hagen is a freelance writer and editor and the author of 8 books. She has a degree in literature from Empire State College.

From the Back Cover

Covers monthly checkups and milestones

Your complete guide to your baby's first twelve months

Give your baby the best start! This sensible month-by-month guide is packed with encouraging advice on every aspect of your child's physical, emotional, and social development in the first year. You'll find proven tips on everything from bringing baby home and establishing feeding, bathing, and sleeping routines to coping with teething, illnesses, and traveling with your bundle of joy.

Discover how to

• Get a baby to sleep
• Bond with your baby
• Manage breast- or bottlefeeding
• Keep baby healthy and safe
• Encourage his/her development
• Handle returning to work

Your complete guide to your baby's first twelve months

Give your baby the best start! This sensible month-by-month guide is packed with encouraging advice on every aspect of your child's physical, emotional, and social development in the first year. You'll find proven tips on everything from bringing baby home and establishing feeding, bathing, and sleeping routines to coping with teething, illnesses, and traveling with your bundle of joy.

Discover how to

• Get a baby to sleep
• Bond with your baby
• Manage breast- or bottlefeeding
• Keep baby healthy and safe
• Encourage his/her development
• Handle returning to work

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764584200
• ISBN 13: 9780764584206
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384