Great Expectations: Baby's First Year

by Michael Crocetti, Marcie Jones, Sandy Jones

Expectant mothers snapped up Great Expectations: Your All-in-One Resource for Pregnancy & Childbirth (135,000 copies sold), and reviewers praised it for its warm, reassuring voice of expertise. This is the logical follow-up, an innovative baby book that will guide and reassure new moms and dads through every nuance of the first 12 months of life with baby. Of course, it maintains all the design elements that are the signature of the Great Expectations series and have proven so appealing: innovative graphics; clear-cut, contemporary styling; and sensitive drawings of babies as they develop month-by-month. The text, too, continues that same friendly, supportive, parent-to-parent tone of the earlier book--but now with dads playing an integral role. Inside, there's a plethora of information on the nuts and bolts of feeding, diaper changing, and immunizations, as well as cutting-edge research on baby intelligence and development, nutrition and medical care, and insights into the dynamics of the parenting process. Checklists, bulleted sidebars, and quick-reference tables speed up the process of finding needed information. Unique tables in the extensive medical reference section will present the gamut of symptoms, so parents will have help distinguishing between common baby ailments and more serious emergencies that may require immediate attention. Includes a foreword by Dr. Michael Crocetti, Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and also an extended resource guide and parent's dictionary.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402736460
• ISBN13: 9781402736469
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Union Square & Co.
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 5.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A must have book, especially for 1st time Mom's.

I love this book. I have checked several others and I didn't buy this till after my baby was born. I wish I would have just bought this one first. It gives you a lot of information that comes in very handy, even something as not allowing your baby to cry it out because research shows that it harms the baby more than it does any good. I have had several people tell me to do things this way and that, but this book really gives you your own insight as well because babies deserve the best and only good things out there. This book revolves around that idea and I really like that because I treasure my son.

Great comprehensive read for first time parents

There are tons of books for first time parent's however this one really covered everything in a thorough neutral way. It was nice to see a chart telling when you should buy baby stuff (i.e., bouncer, high chair, stroller). As with all baby books, the information is just a suggestion and not the gospel, but I really enjoyed this, more so than the "Everything Series" book.

Great Resource

Marcie Jones has done it again, with a well-written and easy-to-read book that helps parents navigate the maze of their baby's early life. A great resource.

Great book for first time parents!!

I read the first book while pregnant and really liked it. It's real info without making you paranoid like the What To Expect books. This book gives great info for every step of the first year. Great book...can't recommend it enough! I want to get it for my friend's who are expecting.