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Your Amazing Newborn
Your Amazing Newborn celebrates a baby's extraordinary abilities in the first hours and days of life. Marshall and Phyllis Klaus take parents and all those who care for new families into this freshly charted world, one they have been exploring for decades. The results of their fascinating research are illuminated by over 120 exquisite photographs, all of babies less than t...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
January 20th 2000
by Da Capo Press
(first published 1985)
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The instincts of a newborn are amazing. This book is a quick read (good for parents of newborns) and it gives a lot of insight into all of the reflexes and talents babies are born with. It gave us a great appreciation of our baby's skills and development and it was nice to have different things to look for (and be excited about and proud of) as we were getting to know him.
wonderful to read while holding a newborn...helps you understand what you already intuitively know. Favorite quote: "A Mayan Indian saying tells us: 'In the baby lies the future of the world. The mother must hold him close so he will know the world is his. The father must take him to the highest hill so he can see what his world is like.'"
Aug 23, 2012
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I loaned it to my neighbor who I was helping w volenteer postpartum Doula service. She said "I have never seen a book like this wish I would have had this for my first baby Amazing book! wonderful pictures. step by step walks u threw ur baby .
Feb 21, 2013
Kelly
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
parents, OBs, midwives, doulas, lactation consultants
Recommended to Kelly by:
Ina May Gaskin
Shelves:
birth-and-pregnancy
Fascinating stuff about new babies and how to interact with them; includes lots of pictures.
The author has an unfortunate evolutionary bias.
The author has an unfortunate evolutionary bias.
pretty interesting book---babies are amazing. I wasn't wowed by the format or writing, but the info is great.
Beautiful book, photography and reverence for a new life.
Babies are cool.
This book is fascinating in that it explains precisely the complexity of what newborn babies are capable of. I really love this book and reading it when Aiden was an infant helped me to understand and appreciate what he was doing and experiencing. I would highly recommend this book to new parents or to anyone who is interested in learning more about babies or in understanding them better.
Nice photos and some interesting info. I can't wait to play with my amazing newborn.
The pictures in this book are really cute and it's a quick read which teaches ways to try to interact with your newborn to stimulate their senses and responses.
This book is fascinating... mostly for the pictures. But even if you know a bit about babies it's a good one for restoring your sense of the wonderment of life!
Aug 08, 2012
Hippie Housewife
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Expecting parents
Shelves:
parenting
Lovely and awe-inspiring book about newborns. I enjoyed reading it during the last weeks of my pregnancy.
Pretty incredible research and photos. Definitely an amazing read for your last months of pregnancy.
Feb 29, 2008
Grace
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
midwives, doulas, childbirth educators, pregnant woman
a really good refrence for first time moms or moms with big gaps between the births of their babies.
Such a great book, cool information and pictures.
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