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Caring for Your Baby and Young Child is updated for accuracy
at every printing, this new edition is based on a cover-to-cover review by the AAP editorial board and includes:new, gender-neutral language throughout new findings on how to stimulate infant and child brain development expanded coverage of breastfeeding techniques and benefits crucial new information on air bag safety and infant car seats new guidelines for choosing a child-care provider "Where We Stand" boxes commenting on critical parenting issues a revised immunization schedule new, ethnically inclusive illustrations and much, much more. Warmly-written and accessible, yet encyclopedic in scope, this sourcebook guides parents through all aspects of caring for infants and young children. This is advice that parents can trust, from the nation's leading specialists in pediatric medicine.
Amazon.com Review
It's Sunday after dark. Your baby is sick, hurt, or acting strangely, and the doctor won't be in until tomorrow. How can you find out what to do when your healthcare professionals are unreachable? You may only need to go as far as your bookshelf. The revised edition of
Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 (the American Academy of Pediatrics' reference book for infancy through preschool), provides a wealth of authoritative child-care information in an easy-to-use format.
The first half of this hefty text serves as a comprehensive parenting manual, and includes a month-by-month guide to the first year, nutritional information, basic care instructions, and physical, emotional, and social developmental milestones for children up to 5 years old. While the American Academy of Pediatrics represents the mainstream child-rearing philosophies embraced by thousands of baby doctors, it does not reflect the entire gamut of child-rearing theory. (There's no discussion, for instance, of breast-feeding past the first year or co-sleeping.) The second half of the book includes a thorough, easy-to-navigate emergency first-aid section, plus detailed information about childhood illnesses, immunization schedules and side effects, and family structures, as well as a discussion of behavioral issues. Caring for Your Baby and Young Child is useful, sensible, and carefully researched, and makes a trustworthy addition to any parent's bookshelf. --Ericka Lutz
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State-of-the-art advice for mothers, fathers, and caregivers from the American Academy of Pediatrics
More than one million copies in print--completely revised and updated
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Caring for Your Baby and Young Child is updated for accuracy
at every printing, this new edition is based on a cover-to-cover review by the AAP editorial board and includes:new, gender-neutral language throughout new findings on how to stimulate infant and child brain development expanded coverage of breastfeeding techniques and benefits crucial new information on air bag safety and infant car seats new guidelines for choosing a child-care provider "Where We Stand" boxes commenting on critical parenting issues a revised immunization schedule new, ethnically inclusive illustrations and much, much more. Warmly-written and accessible, yet encyclopedic in scope, this sourcebook guides parents through all aspects of caring for infants and young children. This is advice that parents can trust, from the nation's leading specialists in pediatric medicine.
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Foreword
The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 53,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and pediatric surgical specialists committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. This book is part of the Academy's ongoing education efforts to provide parents with quality information on a broad spectrum of children's health i