William Sears





William Sears

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Dr. Sears, or Dr. Bill as his "little patients" call him, is the father of eight children as well as the author of over 30 books on childcare. Dr. Bill is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine. Dr. Bill received his pediatric training at Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital in Boston and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto -- the largest children’s hospital in the world, where he served as associate ward chief of the newborn nursery and associate professor of pediatrics. Dr. Sears is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and a fellow of the Royal College of Pediatricians (RCP).Dr. Bill is also a medical and parenting consultant for BabyTalk and...more


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The recent measles outbreak (if you can call it that) in San Diego last month, in which twelve children came down with the illness after an unvaccinated family brought the disease back with them from Switzerland, raises awareness of a growing trend among families to decline certain vaccines.

This article raises the question, should parents have the right to decline vaccines when doing so may put... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 4.13 · 10,204 ratings · 1,367 reviews · 56 distinct works · Similar authors
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“How you approach birth is intimately connected with how you approach life”
William Sears, The Pregnancy Book: Month-by-Month, Everything You Need to Know From America's Baby Experts

“Oftentimes I felt ridiculous giving my seal of approval to what was in reality such a natural thing to do, sort of like reinventing the wheel and extolling its virtues. Had parents' intuition sunk so low that some strange man had to tell modern women that it was okay to sleep with their babies?”
William Sears, Sids: A Parent's Guide to Understanding and Preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome



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