The Essential First Year
by Leach, PenelopeFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-05-03
Publisher(s): DK Publishing, Inc.
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Summary
The outstanding new guide to parenting and pregnancy from the export who transformed the way we raise children
Author Biography
Penelope Leach's baby-led, reliable approach has guided millions of mothers worldwide with her frank, honest, and sympathetic advice you will be able to make your $$$ informed.
Table of Contents
| About this book | p. 6 |
| Pregnancy and birth | |
| Preparing to be parents | p. 10 |
| Where would you like to have your baby? | p. 18 |
| Prenatal testing | p. 20 |
| Changing relationships | p. 22 |
| Making a birth plan | p. 26 |
| Thinking ahead about being parents | p. 28 |
| Practical planning | p. 32 |
| Planning a “babymoon” | p. 34 |
| When will your pregnancy end? | p. 36 |
| Birth | p. 39 |
| Is this bonding? | p. 42 |
| Special care | p. 47 |
| Making sure the baby is all right | p. 50 |
| New baby, new parents | |
| Meeting your new baby | p. 58 |
| Meeting your new baby's needs | p. 66 |
| Your new baby's reflexes | p. 72 |
| Your new baby's senses | p. 74 |
| Newborn crying | p. 78 |
| Newborn feeding | p. 80 |
| The beginning of breast-feeding | p. 84 |
| Thinking about bottle-feeding | p. 94 |
| Newborn sleep | p. 100 |
| Settling in and moving forward | |
| Settling in together | p. 108 |
| Watch the baby not the clock | p. 110 |
| Settled babies' feeding | p. 116 |
| Settled babies' sleeping | p. 129 |
| Growing | p. 135 |
| Settled babies' crying | p. 138 |
| Causes of crying and ways of comforting | p. 141 |
| Colic? | p. 148 |
| Settling into their own bodies | p. 152 |
| Early playing: looking first, doing later | p. 154 |
| Becoming sociable | p. 156 |
| A member of the family | |
| Loving and being loved | p. 164 |
| Shared parenting | p. 166 |
| More feeding | p. 170 |
| More sleeping | p. 188 |
| Coping with sleeping problems | p. 194 |
| More about crying | p. 196 |
| Comfort habits | p. 203 |
| Milestones not race tracks | p. 206 |
| Taking charge of his body | p. 209 |
| Moving toward crawling | p. 214 |
| Beginning to get onto his feet | p. 217 |
| Stages in learning to walk | p. 220 |
| Seeing and doing | p. 222 |
| Touching and taking | p. 224 |
| More listening and more and more talking | p. 230 |
| Moving toward actual speech | p. 234 |
| Not exactly a baby—nor quite a child | |
| The wiggly path from baby to toddler | p. 242 |
| Eating | p. 244 |
| Growing | p. 250 |
| Changing sleeping patterns | p. 252 |
| Learning through play | p. 258 |
| Beginning to think about discipline | p. 268 |
| Your baby's brain | p. 270 |
| Thinking about working outside your home | p. 276 |
| You and your baby are on the same side | p. 280 |
| Index | p. 282 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 288 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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