Your Baby's First Year Week By Week: Second Edition, Fully Revised and Updated
By Glade B. Curtis, Judith Schuler
Women who used the best-selling
Review "Very helpful for new parents…Much more detail is provided than in some of the other popular publications." -- Atlanta Parent, May 2006 From the Publisher This book includes a Bonus CD-ROM that contains valuable additional information for parents and parents-to-be, including: -Baby Name-O-Matic, an Internet link with 13,000 names to choose from. You can specify gender, first initial and ethnic origin give your baby a meaningful name. -Excerpts from other Fisher Books titles on subjects ranging from pregnancy aches and pains to healthy eating, insurance and more. These can be printed from your home computer. -Free tour of the drpaula.com website, including valuable parenting information on topics such as baby's due date, morning sickness, breastfeeding and more. -Introductory offer to FamilyClick!, an ISP that prevents objectionable material from reaching your family with the most advanced multi-layered filtering technology on the market today. With this special offer, you get safe Internet access, a dedicated website for families, and 300 FREE HOURS of Internet access in the first month. System Requirements for Bonus CD-ROM Windows 95/98/NT - Pentium processor, 133 MHz (200 MHz or higher recommended) - 16 MB RAM (32 MB RAM recommended) - 256 color (or better) monitor and video drivers - 4x CD-ROM drive - Soundblaster compatible sound card Macintosh OS 7.5 (or higher) - PowerPC processor, 90 MHz - 16 MB RAM - 256 color (or better) monitor and video drivers - 4x CD-ROM drive About the Author Glade B. Curtis, M.D., M.P.H., an obstetrician/gynecologist, is board-certified by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr. Curtis is married and the father of five. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Judith Schuler, M.S., has worked and co-authored books with Dr. Curtis for more than 20 years. Ms. Schuler divides her time between homes in Laramie, Wyoming and Tucson, Arizona.
The *only* book I've ever thrown away. I tried to like this book. I enjoyed following along with my pregnancy each week and looked forward to reading a little about what to expect each week during my daughter's first year. But by the time she was 5 months old, I'd been instructed to let my baby cry-it-out, told I had to start solids or she'd never learn to eat on her own, and instructed that now was a good time to wean her from the breast to formula. Much of the advice in this book directly contradicts with what the AAP recommends, and even more of it contradicts with my mommy instincts. There are many great childrearing books out there, from the attachment parenting based Baby Book from Dr. Sears to the sound, mainstream advice from the AAP in Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5. Please, please - look elsewhere for a parenting book. This one's gotta go back to the store I bought this book because, for the most part, I am enjoying "Your Pregnancy Week by Week". I'm due in October 2002 and wanted something to prepare me for what to expect the first few weeks. Well, I haven't even gotten past reading the first week, and I have to take this back to the store PRONTO.Although I am having a girl, I have read up on circumcision for boys and consider myself pretty knowledgeable about what care would be needed for an uncircumcized baby. This book states that you should gently retract the foreskin and wash with soap and water. WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! An uncircumcized penis needs little care other than gentle cleaning and the foreskin should NEVER be retracted at this early age! I'm sorry, but I can't take the rest of this book seriously after reading misinformation in the first few pages. For HORRIBLE advice it's a must read! I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone! Several of their recommendations are not only against the advice of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization, they would be detrimental to the physical and emotional development of a baby. Examples: 1. They mention introducing foods to babies at 4 months 2. They suggest that at 5 months moms may want to switch the baby over from breastmilk to formula 3. They downplay breastfeeding throughout the book 4. They give the Ferber method as a way of training a baby to sleep Not to mention they give ridiculous timetables for babies' development. I usually "recycle" books I read by selling them on amazon.com, giving them to libraries, or giving them to women's shelters, but in good conscience I can't let this book be read again, so it's going in the trash. If you're looking for a good baby development book, read Penelope Leach's "Your Baby and Child"--it's wonderful and she gives solid advice and encouragement.
