Heading Home With Your Newborn

Presents a comprehensive guide to caring for newborns, and contains information on health care, feeding, sleeping habits, traveling, sickness, and more.

Written in a compassionate yet authoritative tone by two moms who are also pediatricians, this comprehensive guide covers a wealth of topics that often prove daunting in the first eight weeks of a child's life.

Offering "parent-tested, pediatrician-approved advice," Heading Home With Your Newborn has everything you'll need to prepare for the first few months of your infant's life. Written by two pediatrician-moms, this award-winning book includes information on everything from your baby's appearance, health, feeding, and sleeping habits to changing, dressing, traveling, sickness, and more!

Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of this bestselling guide offers essential advice from two pediatrician-moms. Heading Home With Your Newborn covers everything new parents need to know, from feeding and dressing, to diapering and bathing, and from crying and sleep to travel and activities. Updates include: an updated section on baby blues and postpartum depression; added information on breastfeeding, pumping and insurance benefits; and new safety information on SIDS and car seats; new information throughout to bring all advice in line with the latest policies and recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics. This parent-tested, pediatrician-approved advice will help new parents feel comfortable those first few days and weeks at home with their new baby and serve as a touch point and reference for the whole first year.

Promotes the importance of one-on-one play between parent and child by featuring over one hundred activities that encourage bonding and boost baby's development.

Certified sleep consultant Natalie Willes, known also as The Baby Sleep Trainer, shares her effective and efficient sleep training method in her new book, Getting Your Baby to Sleep the Baby Sleep Trainer Way. Thousands of families throughout the world have used the Baby Sleep Trainer method to help their infants and toddlers learn to sleep through the night and take healthy naps, all with the fewest tears possible. Backed by thorough scientific data and years of professional experience, the Baby Sleep Trainer Method offers parents a tried and true solution for children aged 16 weeks through 3.5 years. Step-by-step, comprehensive contents include: The science of baby sleep habits How to prepare your child's room for optimal sleep Discussions on cortisol and crying in babies Creating healthy sleep habits with newborns Exactly when and how to start sleep training for nighttime sleep and naps Tips and tricks for multiples Troubleshooting common sleep training issues and pitfalls Detailed eat-wake-sleep schedules for children on 3, 2, and 1 nap Sleep training toddlers and children in beds Praise for the Baby Sleep Trainer method: "My 5 month old was waking up every 2-3 hours at night and I was seriously sleep deprived. My sleep deprivation was affecting every aspect of my life. I read several books on sleep training, as well as blogs and websites. I was at my wits end. After following the program for two weeks, my child was consistently sleeping 11-12 hours a night and was on a consistent schedule during the day! This program has literally given me my life back." - McKel Neilsen "Two months ago I was at the end of my sleep rope with our 6-month-old, boy/girl twins. Exhausted doesn't begin to explain it, I felt desperate. After using the Baby Sleep Trainer Method we feel like we have our lives back. The babies are happy and well rested, and so are we! We have our evenings back to cook dinner, spend time with our 4-year-old daughter, hang out together, and actually do things we enjoy. The process took commitment but has been absolutely worth every bit of it." - Beth Oller, MD "Using the Baby Sleep Trainer Method, my daughter quickly went to a routine nap schedule during the day and sleeping through the night from 6:30pm to 6:30am! Also, rather than the exhausting and often unsuccessful rocking or soothing or feeding to sleep, we were able to put her down awake in her crib and she would fall asleep on her own in just a few minutes. It was just incredible." - Online Review

Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, renowned pediatrician and author advises parents on home treatment and diagnosis of colds and flus, childhood illnesses, vision and hearing problems, allergies, and more. PLUS, a complete section on picking the right doctor for your child, step-by-step instructions for knowing when to call a doctor, and much more.