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The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition)
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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | | In their excellent (and hefty) resource guide, The Baby Book, attachment parenting specialists William Sears and Martha Sears have provided new parents with their approach to every aspect of baby care basics, from newborns to toddlers. Attachment parenting is a gentle, reasonable approach to parenting that stresses bonding with your baby, responding to her cues, breastfeeding, "wearing" your baby, and sharing sleep with your child. For those parents who worry about negative effects of this attention, the Sears say, "Spoiling is what happens when you leave something (or some person) alone on the shelf--it spoils." | | | | In their excellent (and hefty) resource guide, The Baby Book, attachment parenting specialists William Sears and Martha Sears have provided new parents with their approach to every aspect of baby care basics, from newborns to toddlers. Attachment parenting is a gentle, reasonable approach to parenting that stresses bonding with your baby, responding to her cues, breastfeeding, "wearing" your baby, and sharing sleep with your child. For those parents who worry about negative effects of this attention, the Sears say, "Spoiling is what happens when you leave something (or some person) alone on the shelf--it spoils." | |
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| Better than a lot of baby books | |
| | I found this book at a baby store in town and decided to try and buy it cheaper on the internet, which I did. As I read through it in the store I realized that it had a lot of great info pertaining to babies, not just newborns either, it goes up to two years of age and thoroughly detailed everything from health problems that could arise to parenting issues one might struggle with (ie. sleeping arraingments). The only thing that you might not like is his personal opinion on parenting. While he is an excellent doctor you might not agree with everything he has to say.
| | This is the 4th time I bought this | |
| | I give it to everyone. I bought this when I was pregnant. I was given it as a gift from my neighbor too. I have bought 3 more times as gifts for mothers to be. I will buy more. It is a wonderful resource on literally everything. I found that it is not too opinionated. They do state their preference and their the other choices. It is not set up strictly according to age either. I highly recommend for any new parents.
| | | I think this is the BEST book for any new or existing parent. I had the opportunity to use it as a reference at a friends house and LOVED it. Anything that I've ever needed an answer about has been covered so far in this book. I now purchase it for every expecting mom I know. I just think it's that important for everyone to have this book.
| | Not the be all end all but not the devil either | |
| | What I have noticed about all childrearing advice they never take into account what works for the child. Each baby is different so if one way doesn't work then try another. The advice about comforting a colicky baby is very helpful. As a first time mom to a colic baby I was bewildered.
The advice to talk to my pediatrician helped me to get my baby the help he needed. I thought that there was nothing that could be done but it ended up he has acid reflux. As for the co sleeping and holding all the time. Sometimes my son just wants to be put down and to be on his own. There have been nights where I tried to comfort him to sleep and in desperation put him down and he fell asleep. I bought a co sleeper that goes in the bed and he likes that a lot. When he is six months we will start to put him in his own crib in his own room. But for me he is too little to be out of our room. So he sleeps in his car seat or his co sleeper whichever one he wants too. I need my sleep also!
I like the book and he has some good advice but I am going with my instincts and whatever works for my son.
| | great book for parenting from the heart... | |
| | I purchased this book when i was pregnant with my first and boy am i glad i did! When you are pregnant or a new mom you're still discovering things and haven't chosen a particular parenting style. I always wished to parent from the heart, which i feel is the same as attachment parenting. (i was surprised when i realised that this was actually a parenting 'style')
Dr sears gave a great introduction to baby wearing and I can really say today that the reason i started babywearing(which is the best thing ever!) is because of the chapter in this book which linked to a great website offering tips and where to buy these items. There are great chapters on co-sleeping and breastfeeding.
Dr. sears supports a very gentle way of parenting, where you adapt to your child and listen to their cues. If you prefer a more strict parenting style where the baby adapts to you then I don't think you'll like this book.
For me, I loved it!
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