Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.122
EAN: 9780316778008
Edition: Revised
ISBN: 0316778001
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 769
Publication Date: 2003-03
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Studio: Little, Brown and Company

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com Review:
In their excellent (and hefty) resource guide, The Baby Book, attachment parenting specialists William Sears and Martha Sears have provided new parents with their approach to every aspect of baby care basics, from newborns to toddlers. Attachment parenting is a gentle, reasonable approach to parenting that stresses bonding with your baby, responding to her cues, breastfeeding, "wearing" your baby, and sharing sleep with your child. For those parents who worry about negative effects of this attention, the Sears say, "Spoiling is what happens when you leave something (or some person) alone on the shelf--it spoils."

Product Description:
Brought thoroughly up-to-date-with the latest information on everything from diapering to daycare, from midwifery to hospital "birthing rooms," from postpartum nutrition to infant development-THE BABY BOOK remains the one must-have resource for today's new parents.

In this perennially bestselling and encyclopedic guide, Dr. Bill and Martha Sears draw from their vast experience both as medical professionals and as parents to provide authoritative, comprehensive information on virtually every aspect of infant care. THE BABY BOOK focuses on the essential needs of babies-eating, sleeping, development, health, and comfort-as it addresses the questions of greatest concern to parents today.




Rating: - Baby Encyclopedia
By the title of my review you can tell I refer to this book as my baby encyclopedia! It's great. Lots of helpful information for the first years of life. Information is easy to find. I have also read, but do not own yet, the fussy baby book and I really liked that book too. I realized I was doing attachment parenting and didn't even know it!

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Rating: - Lots of Good and Practical Advice
This is one of the few books on parenting that is lacking in BAD advice. Most of the advice is positive, supportive, and aimed toward understanding your infants needs. Dr. Sears actually says that it is good for our children to eat saturated fats, which is so true. Although unfortunately they make the mistake of recommending soy milk or rice milk for growing children, rather than raw grassfed milk. This book is extremely detailed, so much so that I wonder what all the details are about. It's almost ... Read More

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Rating: - Packed with information ... great buy!
Don't waste your money on a bunch of baby books ... this one is encyclopedic and contains everything you need to know.

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Rating: - This book should be called "Instinct Parenting"
A friend of mine just lent me this book because she said everything I did with my 2 1/2 year old is in the book, which I had never read. I had the What to Expect books that someone had bought for me, but I didn't really like them and I did my own thing. I didn't realize it was called attachment parenting, I thought it was just common sense. I had a natural homebirth from the beginning with my husband and midwives. Sure, we were scared when they left us without an instruction manual, but we just ... Read More

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Rating: - Fabulous gift for a first time mom!
The Baby Book is the perfect gift for a first-time mom, pregnant friend, or any new family. It is written with a light, gentle and positive tone, but is eye-opening at the same time. On the surface, it seems to be a "baby guide" like so many others on the market, but The Baby Book is different.

Dr. Sears and his family coined the term "Attachment Parenting," which is a philosophy of parenting that embraces instinctual bonding behaviors like breastfeeding, babywearing and cosleeping. If ... Read More

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