Your Baby's First Year Week by Week

Let the trusted authors of Your Pregnancy(TM) Week by Week--the book you relied on while you were pregnant--guide you through baby's remarkable, sometimes mind-boggling first year. With easy-to-understand information at your fingertips, you'll know what to look for and understand what's happening. This book will provide you with the skills necessary to support and encourage baby's growth.

Thoroughly revised and updated, Your Baby's First Year(TM) Week by Week includes the latest pediatric guidelines and recommendations, plus more than 50 new topics--everything from food allergies to cord-blood banking. It also features the essential milestones of baby's social, emotional, intellectual and physical development on a weekly basis. Valuable information includes:

• Common medical problems what to look for and when to call baby's pediatrician
• Bonding with baby from baby massage to talking, what you can do to create a meaningful connection
• Feeding baby breast milk or formula? and introducing solids
• Sleeping habits how to improve the situation for the entire family
• Vaccination guidelines learn about the latest recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
• Playing with baby how to help develop baby's cognitive, social and motor skills through play and with toys, many of them homemade
• Baby gear the latest on carriers, high chairs, swings, cribs, clothing, diapers and everything else you may need

Author: Glade B. Curtis, Judith Schuler
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Published: 02/09/2010
Pages: 680
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9780738213729
ISBN10: 0738213721
BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Life Stages | Infants & Toddlers | General
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | Fatherhood
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | Motherhood

About the Author
Glade B. Curtis, M.D., M.P.H., is board-certified by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the father of five. He lives in Utah.

Judith Schuler, M.S., has worked and cowritten books with Dr. Curtis for more than twenty years. Ms. Schuler divides her time between homes in Wyoming and Arizona.