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: 495 Studio: Little, Brown and Company
Baby Encyclopedia
By the title of my review you can tell I refer to The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition) as my baby encyclopedia! It's great. Lots of helpful information for the first years of life. Information is easy to find. I have also read, but do not own yet, the fussy baby book and I really liked that book too. I realized I was doing attachment parenting and didn't even know it!
Lots of Good and Practical Advice
This is one of the few books on parenting that is lacking in BAD advice. Most of the advice is positive, supportive, and aimed toward understanding your infants needs. Dr. Sears actually says that it is good for our children to eat saturated fats, which is so true. Although unfortunately they make the mistake of recommending soy milk or rice milk for growing children, rather than raw grassfed milk. The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition) is extremely detailed, so much so that I wonder what all the details are about. It's almost like Dr. Sears home doctor companion because I am certain that it will be hard to find a question that is not answered in the book.
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Packed with information ... great buy!
Don't waste your money on a bunch of baby books ... this one is encyclopedic and contains everything you need to know.
This book should be called "Instinct Parenting"
A friend of mine just lent me The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition) because she said everything I did with my 2 1/2 year old is in the book, which I had never read. I had the What to Expect books that someone had bought for me, but I didn't really like them and I did my own thing. I didn't realize it was called attachment parenting, I thought it was just common sense. I had a natural homebirth from the beginning with my husband and midwives. Sure, we were scared when they left us without an instruction manual, but we just figured it out. I nursed and slept and was on her schedule, which worked out for us. We coslept with our baby and I carried her in my kangaroo pouch wherever we went. Intimacy was not a problem, because we don't have the "night time only rule" in ... Read More
Fabulous gift for a first time mom!
The Baby Book is the perfect gift for a first-time mom, pregnant friend, or any new family. It is written with a light, gentle and positive tone, but is eye-opening at the same time. On the surface, it seems to be a "baby guide" like so many others on the market, but The Baby Book is different.
Dr. Sears and his family coined the term "Attachment Parenting," which is a philosophy of parenting that embraces instinctual bonding behaviors like breastfeeding, babywearing and cosleeping. If these terms are foreign or even off-putting to you, that's okay. The Baby Book contains all the fun facts to prepare and guide moms and dads with new babies. It just adds another dimension, empowering parents to care for their children with respect, ... Read More
