Your Baby’s First Year for Dummies
£12.30
Everything new and experienced parents need to know about their baby’s first 12 months to give them the best start in life
Each year, more than 4 million babies are born in the United States-and the first year of a baby’s life is a joyous, challenging, and sometimes overwhelming time. Your Baby’s First Year For Dummies serves as a complete guide for baby’s first twelve months, from what to do when arriving home from the hospital to handling feeding, bathing, and sleeping routines to providing the right stimuli for optimal progress.
This comprehensive yet no-nonsense guide can help new or even seasoned moms and dads looking for tips and advice to help with every aspect of their baby’s development. During Baby’s first year, at times things will go well: Baby’s sleeping and eating well, she’s hitting milestones on time, and you’re balancing childcare with work or with housekeeping. Then again, there are times when things aren’t great. This jargon-free book takes a realistic look at what Baby’s first year might be like, month by month. You’ll find it helpful if you’re pregnant and wondering what Baby’s first year will be like; you have given birth and want to know what the months ahead hold; you have given birth and need advice from a book that doesn’t talk down to you or make you feel as though there’s something wrong with you (because there’s not) if you’re having a hard time making the adjustment to parenthood.
Packed with tips on every aspect of baby’s physical, emotional, and social development, Your Baby’s First Year For Dummies gives you advice on topics like the following:
- Bonding with Baby
- Breastfeeding vs. bottle-feeding
- Baby’s first checkup
- Baby’s checkups at two months, four months, six months, nine months, and twelve months
- Sleeping habits
- Teething
- Baby toy safety and preventing injuries
- Food preparation and food allergies
- Traveling with your baby
- Signs of common illnesses
- Planning Baby’s 1-year party
- And much more
Additionally, Your Baby’s First Year For Dummies provides tips for surviving the first few weeks, Daddy survival tips, and advice on when to call your pediatrician (and when not to). If Baby has arrived or you expect her soon, get your copy to make every moment count.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (24 Jun. 2005), For Dummies |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 384 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 9780764584206 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0764584206 |
| Dimensions | 18.54 x 2.79 x 22.86 cm |
by Stace
Fast delivery, nothing unexpected.
by Joanna
Described well. Only few marks on the cover. I wouldn’t say it was used much.
I am very happy with this one. THX
by Printgirl
I bought this for my son as his wife has just given birth to their first child. It’s packed full of useful information. I just hope he reads it!
by Phil G
Not aimed at UK parents. And not really aimed at dads to be.
But the content can still be useful in places.
by Joanna
Arrived promptly, and content of book is as expected, but was a little disappointed as book was described as being in very good condition but I do not believe this to be a fair description. The cover had significant marks on it.
by Sam
Has a lot of useful information, but typical I had a baby that was that bit different and advance so what I read at certain stages of her first year, she had already done or gone though. It’s helpful for first time mums that won’t get offended by the title.
It has a lot of useful information and I still have it to this day despite my little one being nearly two. It’s good to refresh as contains other useful constant info that you would use in everyday life:)
by Amazon Customer
It’s not a bad book, but it does err on the side of being so simple in places that it’s a bit patronising. It also needs another edit as there’s a lot of duplication. I sat down to read 5 pages a day and I found I had to read 20 to get content that could have been contained in 5. Maybe that’s OK if you’re dipping in and out and using it as a reference book, but it’s also intended to be read through from start to finish, as it’s structured chronologically.
It also feels like it was made for the US and it would have been far better to have adapted a UK edition to sell in the UK. There’s a whole involved section on setting up selection interviews with paediatricians, for example, which is pretty misleading if you’re in the UK and don’t have the first idea how paediatric healthcare works (this is ‘for dummies’ after all – you’d expect it to have all the basic information you will need).
by Steve M.
This book is a good introduction for a first time expectant parent. For us, it gives us a benchmark upon which to consider everyone elses (parents etc) opinions and how they’ll fit into our lives when the newborn comes along.
It could do with more pictures however.
It’s also a shame that so much of this book is obviously American based, rather than UK based – with sections about “Choosing a paediatrician” etc, which is irrelevant to the UK. There are a few things like this that just don’t make sense to us Brits.
Saying that, it’s worth the purchase and I’d recommend it.