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Some things about babies, happily, will never change. They still arrive warm, cuddly, soft, and smelling impossibly sweet. But how moms and dads care for their brand-new bundles of baby joy has changed--and now, so has the new-baby bible.

Announcing the completely revised third edition of What to Expect the First Year . With over 10.5 million copies in print, First Year is the world's best-selling, best-loved guide to the instructions that babies don't come with, but should. And now, it's better than ever. Every parent's must-have/go-to is completely updated.

Keeping the trademark month-by-month format that allows parents to take the potentially overwhelming first year one step at a time, First Year is easier-to-read, faster-to-flip-through, and new-family-friendlier than ever--packed with even more practical tips, realistic advice, and relatable, accessible information than before. Illustrations are new, too.

Among the changes: Baby care fundamentals--crib and sleep safety, feeding, vitamin supplements--are revised to reflect the most recent guidelines. Breastfeeding gets more coverage, too, from getting started to keeping it going. Hot-button topics and trends are tackled: attachment parenting, sleep training, early potty learning (elimination communication), baby-led weaning, and green parenting (from cloth diapers to non-toxic furniture). An all-new chapter on buying for baby helps parents navigate through today's dizzying gamut of baby products, nursery items, and gear. Also new: tips on preparing homemade baby food, the latest recommendations on starting solids, research on the impact of screen time (TVs, tablets, apps, computers), and "For Parents" boxes that focus on mom's and dad's needs. Throughout, topics are organized more intuitively than ever, for the best user experience possible.

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• Foreword: A Word From the Doctor(p. xxi)
• Introduction: Why This Book Was Conceived(p. xxiii)
• What Your Baby May Be Doing This Month
• Part 1 The First Year(p. 1)
• Chapter 1 Get Ready, Get Set(p. 2)
• Feeding Your Baby: Breast or Bottle?(p. 2)
• What You May Be Concerned About(p. 10)
• What It's Important to Know: Selecting the Right Physician(p. 25)
• Chapter 2 Buying for Baby(p. 35)
• Chapter 3 Your Newborn Baby(p. 45)
• What Your Baby May Be Doing(p. 45)
• What You Can Expect at the Hospital Checkups(p. 45)
• Feeding Your Baby: Getting Started(p. 49)
• What You May Be Concerned About(p. 60)
• What it's Important to Know: The Baby Care Primer(p. 73)
• Chapter 4 The First Month(p. 89)
• What Your Baby May Be Doing(p. 89)
• What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup(p. 90)
• Feeding Your Baby This Month: Expressing Breast Milk(p. 91)
• What You May Be Concerned About(p. 95)
• What it's Important to Know: Babies Develop Differently(p. 137)
• Chapter 5 The Second Month(p. 140)
• What Your Baby May Be Doing(p. 140)
• What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup(p. 141)
• Feeding Your Baby This Month: Supplementary Bottles(p. 142)
• What You May Be Concerned About(p. 144)
• What it's Important to Know: Stimulating Your Baby in the Early Months(p. 163)
• Chapter 6 The Third Month(p. 169)
• What Your Baby May Be Doing(p. 169)
• What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkups(p. 170)
• Feeding Your Baby This Month: Nursing While Working Outside the Home(p. 170)
• What You May Be Concerned About(p. 173)
• What it's Important to Know: The Right Caretakers for Baby(p. 190)
• Chapter 7 The Fourth Month(p. 200)
• What Your Baby May Be Doing(p. 200)
• What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup(p. 201)
• Feeding Your Baby This Month: Thinking About Solids(p. 202)
• What You May Be Concerned About(p. 203)
• What it's Important to Know: Playthings for Baby(p. 212)
• Chapter 8 The Fifth Month(p. 215)
• What Your Baby May Be Doing(p. 215)
• What You Can Expect At This Month's Checkup(p. 216)
• Feeding Your Baby This Month: Starting Solids(p. 216)
• What You May Be Concerned About(p. 223)
• What it's Important to Know: Environmental Hazards and Your Baby(p. 236)
• Chapter 9 The Sixth Month(p. 245)
• What Your Baby May Be Doing(p. 245)
• What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup(p. 246)
• Feeding Your Baby This Month: Commercial or Home-Prepared Baby Foods(p. 247)
• What You May Be Concerned About(p. 249)
• What it's Important to Know: Stimulating Your Older Baby(p. 263)
• Chapter 10 The Seventh Month(p. 266)
• What Your Baby May Be Doing(p. 266)
• What You Can Expect At This Month's Checkups(p. 267)
• Feeding Your Baby This Month: Moving Up From Strained Foods(p. 267)
• What You May Be Concerned About(p. 268)
• What It's Important to Know: Raising a Superbaby(p. 275)
• Chapter 11 The Eight Month(p. 278)
• What Your Baby May be Doing(p. 278)
• What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup(p. 279)
• Feeding Your Baby This Month: Finally--Finger Foods(p. 279)
• What You May be Concerned About(p. 281)
• What It's Important to Know: Making Home Safe for Baby(p. 292)
• Chapter 12 The Ninth Month(p. 303)
• What Your Baby May be Doing(p. 303)
• What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup(p. 304)
• Feeding Your Baby This Month: Establishing Good Habits Now(p. 305)
• What You May be Concerned About(p. 307)
• What It's Important to Know: Games Babies Play(p. 318)
• Chapter 13 The Tenth Month(p. 321)
• What Your Baby May be Doing(p. 321)
• What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup(p. 322)
• Feeding Your Baby This Month: Thinking About Weaning(p. 322)
• What You May be Concerned About(p. 325)
• What It's Important to Know: The Beginnings of Discipline(p. 335)
• Chapter 14 The Eleventh Month(p. 341)
• What Your Baby May be Doing(p. 341)
• What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup(p. 342)
• Feeding Your Baby This Month: Weaning Your Baby From the Breast(p. 342)
• What You May be Concerned About(p. 344)
• What It's Important to Know: Helping Baby to Talk(p. 351)
• Chapter 15 The Twelfth Month(p. 355)
• What Your Baby May be Doing(p. 355)
• What You Can Expect at This Month's Checkup(p. 356)
• Feeding Your Baby This Month: The Best-Odds Toddler Diet(p. 357)
• What You May be Concerned About(p. 363)
• What It's Important to Know: Stimulating the Toddler(p. 380)
• Part 2 Of Special Concern(p. 383)
• Chapter 16 A Baby for All Seasons(p. 384)
• Feeding Your Baby: 'Round the Calendar(p. 384)
• What You May be Concerned About in Summer or Summery Weather(p. 385)
• What You May be Concerned About in Winter or Wintry Weather(p. 393)
• What It's Important to Know: The Season for Travel(p. 397)
• Chapter 17 When Baby Is Sick(p. 406)
• The Most Common Infant Health Problems(p. 413)
• What It's Important to Know: All About Fever(p. 426)
• Chapter 18 First Aid Do's and Don'ts(p. 434)
• Resuscitation Techniques for Babies(p. 448)
• Chapter 19 The Low-Birthweight Baby(p. 457)
• Feeding Baby: Nutrition for the Preterm or Low-Birthweight Infant(p. 458)
• What You May be Concerned About(p. 461)
• What It's Important to Know: Health Problems Common in Low-Birthweight Babies(p. 472)
• Chapter 20 The Baby With Problems(p. 475)
• Feeding Baby: Can Diet Make a Difference?(p. 476)
• What You May be Concerned About(p. 476)
• What It's Important to Know: The Most Common Birth Disorders(p. 485)
• Chapter 21 The Adopted Baby(p. 499)
• What You May be Concerned About(p. 499)
• Chapter 22 The First Postpartum Days(p. 507)
• What You May be Feeling(p. 507)
• What to Expect at Your In-Hospital Checkups(p. 508)
• What You Should be Eating: Surviving Hospital Food(p. 509)
• What You May be Concerned About(p. 511)
• What It's Important to Know: Getting Back Into Shape(p. 525)
• Chapter 23 Surviving the First Six Weeks(p. 533)
• What You May Be Feeling(p. 533)
• What You Can Expect at Your Six-Week Checkup(p. 534)
• What You Should be Eating: The Best-Odds Postpartum Diet(p. 534)
• What You May be Concerned About(p. 540)
• What It's Important to Know: Making Love Again(p. 560)
• Chapter 24 Enjoying the First Year(p. 564)
• What You May be Feeling(p. 564)
• What You May be Eating: The Best-Odds for a Healthy Future(p. 564)
• What You May be Concerned About(p. 565)
• What It's Important to Know: To Work or Not to Work(p. 587)
• Chapter 25 Becoming a Father(p. 591)
• What You May be Concerned About(p. 591)
• Chapter 26 From Only Child to Older Child(p. 601)
• What You May be Concerned About(p. 602)
• Part 3 Ready Reference(p. 617)
• Best-Odds Recipes(p. 618)
• For the First Year and Beyond(p. 618)
• Common Home Remedies(p. 627)
• Common Childhood Illnesses(p. 630)
• Height and Weight Charts(p. 650)
• Index(p. 653)

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Library Journal Review

A dozen complimentary adjectives could be used to describe this book, but as it is sweet with choice information that is easy to digest, served in small helpings, and very satisfying, it can best be summed up as crackerjack! With an insightful narrative punctuated by the familiar question-and-answer format, the authors of What To Expect When Your Expecting (Workman, 1984) admirably address every conceivable aspect of baby care during the first year. The balanced presentation is amazingly comprehensive; the lack of preaching is refreshing. The month-by-month summaries of development, feedings, medical checkups, and special concerns are outstanding. This is by far one of the best baby care books on the market, and for the price, no library should be without a copy.-- Kimberly E. Megginson, VA Medical Ctr. Lib., Fayetteville, Ark. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

Parents-to-be are likely to find themselves quickly immersed in this highly authoritative manual by the collaborators of What to Expect When You're Expecting . Nearly 700 pages of snappily written, friendly advice, constructed in the form of chatty answers to hypothetical questions, are arranged on a month-by-month basis. For each of 12 months, there are a guide to the progress the baby may be expected to be making at this stage, a list of potential health or other problems and paragraphs on the myriad questions all new parents ask--on subjects as various as in-home care, birthmarks, circumcision and breath-holding. Other sections cover what to buy for a new-born, first aid, recipes, adoption and even how to enjoy the first year, in terms of the parents' own activities, such as social life and sex. An extensive index leads the reader to information that wouldn't normally be accessed using the month-to-month arrangement--and also serves as an indication of the book's all-inclusiveness. Illustrated. 65,000 first printing; first serial to Working Mother magazine; author tour. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

This treasury of advice for new or expectant parents is encyclopedic in scope, reasonable in tone, and full of humor and practical hints. The first chapter discusses breast versus bottle feeding, answers questions on matters such as naming the baby, and offers suggestions on selecting the right physician. Further chapters cogently summarize current thought and practice regarding child development, first aid, adoption, the father's role, etc. A final section of ready-reference material includes recipes, common home remedies, a well-organized table of common illnesses, and height and weight charts. Empathetic and exhaustive in its coverage, this volume may well become many a new parent's best friend during a period of enormous adjustment. Index. --Micaela Sullivan-Fowler

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Arlene Eisenberg, 1934-2001 Arlene Eisenberg was born June 8, 1934 in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, daughter to the Head of the Sanitation Department. She is best known for her instructional books on pregnancy and the early years of childhood, "What to Expect When You're Expecting", as well as the"What to Expect Foundation", an organization which prints lower literacy manuals for disadvantaged women.

At the tender age of 18 she dropped out of Queens College, opting for babies and marriage to Howard Eisenberg, a press agent for Eddie Fisher, instead of a higher education. The two wrote articles together for many magazines until their children were grown.

At this point, Eisenberg began to collaborate on question and answer type pregnancy books with her adult daughters. Together, the three women wrote "What to Expect When You're Expecting", the follow ups "What to Expect the First Year", "What to Expect the Toddler Years" and "What to Eat when You're Expecting", which were hungrily sought out by pregnant women. It was a series that answered all serious and silly questions and made an expectant mother all the more comfortable. Through these books, Eisenberg became a mother to the multitudes, explaining to all women that they didn't have to be perfect mothers.

Arlene Eisenberg died at the age of 66 of breast cancer.