Parenting Guide to Your Baby's First Year

by Anne Krueger

A complete guide to the most important year in your baby's life With its timely, in-depth advice and hands-on guidance, Parenting magazine has emerged as the child-care resource of choice for aware,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345411803
• ISBN13: 9780345411808
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

very informative

This is a very informative and in an easy to follow format. I do not have much time to read books cover to cover anymore (I have a 4 month old) but the format of this book allows me to look up certain topics when I need them.

Top notch baby book!

I have read plenty of baby books, including Dr. Sears and other experts, but I find this one to be the best there is on the subject. I really liked the author's style and format. It is divided into 3 month sections: Month 0 -3, 4 - 6, 7 - 9, 10 -12. Each section talks about all the important developmental stages of each month, plus what to expect in terms of growth, learning, etc. In addition to all the basic developmental facts, there is plenty of first hand experience stories on a variety of topics, plus a lot of psychology in terms of what to expect you will be going through emotionally and physically in each of the 12 months. They even include very well done Yoga exercises to relax and stretch out those overworked muscles! I found it to be a wonderful book and the best-organized and comprehensive one on the market. I got rid of all my other baby books since this one covers it all. It even goes into details about ear infections and common baby hazards and illnesses. It also reads very smoothly. A real page-turner and a tearjerker at times, especially the first birthday stuff. I barely got through that chapter! I highly recommend this book.

HONEST AND HELPFUL

So many parenting books give you facts and figures about child-rearing, but don't really capture what life is like with a new baby. This book does both in a very engaging way. It captured the highs and lows of the first-year experience, steered me in the right direction on many occasions, and spoke to me in a very personal way. I recommended it to everybody at my Lamaze group reunion and several of them bought it and loved it.

Wonderful book

This book has been enormously helpful, it is extremely practical and covers pretty much every question a first time parent has. It's not huge so you can read it in a reasonable amount of time, especially when you only have to read the three month block that relates to your baby at a time. I refer to it far more than any other childcare book I have.

The perfect reference for the first time parent!

This book is a great companion for first time parents. I particularly liked how the book was divided into 3-month timeframes, and how each time-frame had a section called "A Parent's Life." Instead of those parenting books that only paint a rosy picture about parenting, which ultimately make you feel lonely and frustrated, this book covers the full range of parenting emotions, from anger to joy, and helps you to realize that they are all normal. The Mother's Stories help you to realize that you are not alone. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is about to embark on the journey into parenthood.