Your Baby's First Year

by American Academy Of Pediatrics, Tanya Remer Altmann (Editor)

"Your Baby's First Year, now fully revised and updated, provides authoritative advice on every aspect of newborn and infant care, includingGuidelines for prenatal and newborn care, including screening tests during pregnancyMilestones for physical, emotional, social, and cognitive growth, as well as visual, hearing, language, and movement milestonesCutting-edge research on early brain development and how babies and young children thinkA complete health encyclopedia covering injuries, illnesses, and congenital diseasesAn in-depth discussion on breastfeeding, including its benefits, techniques, and challengesRevised nutrition recommendations, including the importance of early introduction of allergenic foods, and obesity prevention tipsTips for choosing child care programsUpdated safety standards including CPR instruction, safe sleep, childproofing tips, car safety seats, and toy safetySafety checks for home, including bathing, preventing drowning, poisoning, choking, burns, and falls

Genres: Parenting

975 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 22, 2020

Reviews

[Shana]

Is this book extremely educational? Yes, albeit some sections were very descriptive and I felt like mostly common sense?

But if you choose to formula feed or are unable to breastfeed and thus need formula for your baby to survive, this book will literally make you feel like scum of the earth. Or like you didn’t try hard enough… really not a good message for hormonal PP women.

[Wenjie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I definitely recommend this book to new parents. This is one of three baby’s first year books we purchased and this one is our favorite. My husband especially likes this book, because it presents information without any added fluff. It’s helpful to know the stance the American Academy of Pediatrics takes on various topics, and the size of this book makes it easy to carry and read on the go. I suggest looking over the table of contents to give you an idea of the information you can expect to find, a quick google should do it.

[Erin Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very thorough! Lots of good info on milestones, illness, feeding, and sleeping. Tips and recommendations were a little intense sometimes, and not always realistic, but overall a great guide for the first year.

[Erika · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informational and good for reference but some sections were repetitive or the same information was re-stated several ways.
Needs a good thorough edit to condense repeat info.

[Michelle Dranschak · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful reference manual. Received a copy from my pediatrician and read most of it but will keep it around as a reference.