Your Baby's First Year For Dummies
Your Baby's First Year For Dummies
Everything parents need to give their babies the best start Each year, more than 4 million babies are born in the United States-and the first year of a baby's life is a joyous, challenging, and sometimes overwhelming time. Your Baby's First Year For Dummies serves as a complete guide for baby's first twelve months-from what to do when arriving home from the hospital to handling feeding, bathing, and sleeping routines to providing the right stimuli for optimal progress. Packed with tips on every aspect of baby's physical, emotional, and social development, this friendly guide gives parents advice on such important topics as breastfeeding vs. bottle-feeding, teething, baby toy safety, food preparation, food allergies, traveling, and much more.
- ASIN: 0764584200
- ISBN: 9780764584206
- Brand: Brand: For Dummies
- Manufacturer: For Dummies
Baby Basics: A Guide for New Parents
Baby Basics: A Guide for New Parents
A comprehensive book for apprehensive parents Baby Basics is a reassuring guide that takes the worry out of first-time parenting and lets you spend your time enjoying your baby. Filled with sound advice and useful tips, it will help you make the best choices and most practical decisions for your child. From the "Top Six Things to Do Before Baby Arrives" to "Investing in the Future," Baby Basics explains everything you need to know. It will help you identify your options and get a handle on day-to-day matters like feeding, choosing diapers, and finding child care, as well as less obvious responsibilities like writing a will and purchasing life insurance. This indispensable, down-to-earth book will help you save time and money while giving your baby the best.
- ASIN: B000VXKJ2U
- Manufacturer: Wiley
Healthy Beginnings: Giving Your Baby the Best Start, from Preconception to Birth
Healthy Beginnings: Giving Your Baby the Best Start, from Preconception to Birth
Canada's premier resource for planning a happy, healthy pregnancy Healthy Beginnings is the ultimate guide to having a baby, with expert guidance through planning, conception, pregnancy, labor, and more. Developed by The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada (SOGC), this book answers the hundreds of questions you have about your body, your baby, and your life during this exciting time, written by Canada's lead authorities on maternal and newborn health. You will find clear answers about keeping yourself and your baby healthy through each trimester, and what to expect as your body changes seemingly overnight. When it's time, it's time, and the SOGC's experts walk you step-by-step through each of the four stages of labor and delivery, with insightful advice to help you have the birth experience you want and enjoy your first moments with your newborn. When pregnancy ends, motherhood begins, and this book helps you start caring for your newborn—and yourself—with help from leading authorities on postpartum care, breast feeding, and all the information you will need as a brand new parent. Based on the national guidelines for care, this book provides clinically accurate information in an accessible, user-friendly way. From planning a pregnancy to taking care of your new baby, your questions are answered here, by the premier experts in the field. Understand what to expect from your body during each trimester Learn how to eat, exercise, travel, work, and play as your pregnancy progresses Get expert insight and advice for each step of labor and delivery Take great care of your newborn—and yourself—and find help when you need it Expectant mothers are understandably overwhelmed with information—everyone has "advice," freely given, and sometimes questionable. How do you separate fact from superstition? Healthy Beginnings is the resource you can trust, with the most up-to-date answers on planning, pregnancy, delivery, and beyond.
- ASIN: 1119283973
- ISBN: 1119283973
- Brand: Wiley
- Manufacturer: Wiley
Mamarazzi: Every Mom's Guide to Photographing Kids
Mamarazzi: Every Mom's Guide to Photographing Kids
Calling all mamarazzis! Every camera-toting mom will want this guide!Moms, if you can't seem to take enough great photos of the children in your life, this is the book for you. Now you can learn how to photograph children with the style, clarity, color, and beauty you see in professional photographs. This fun guide combines humor with solid know-how to show you how to compose shots, handle cameras from basic compacts to advanced dSLRs, take portraits or candids, create prints that impress, and even work with kids! Packed with beautiful examples and written in a down-to-earth style from one mom to another, this book will help mamarazzis everywhere take better photos.Moms are one of the fastest-growing segments of the camera-toting demographic, and the blogosphere has a term for them, mamarazzisMixes information, inspiration, and fun for women who want to take better photographs of the children in their livesExplains how to set up a camera and use the controls on basic compacts up to advanced dSLR camerasCovers shot composition, determining settings, exposing images correctly, the essentials of printing images, how to process for clear and bright color, and moreIncludes stunning examples of portraits and candids of childrenBecome a better mamarazzi with this fun and informative guide! Mamarazzi: Top Tips for Getting Super Kid Shots Of course, every mamarazzo wants to know how to capture winning photos of her children. She wants to pick the perfect spots for shots, use lovely lighting, and make her camera’s bells and whistles sing. But the true show stopper for most moms is the ability to capture her child’s true personality in photos. A few insider tips can do the trick! Don’t act your age. The best way to guarantee giggles from your children is to think like a kid yourself. Figure out what makes them laugh … and then start the show! This may mean breaking a few rules in honor of photo time. For instance, let your monkey jump on the bed or plan a ridic... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0470769106
- ISBN: 9780470769102
- Manufacturer: Wiley
Baby Facts: The Truth about Your Child's Health from Newborn through Preschool
Baby Facts: The Truth about Your Child's Health from Newborn through Preschool
Ear infections need to be treated with antibiotics. Newborns and infants should be bathed daily. New parents are deluged with advice on how to care for their babies. This book explores common baby health myths--in areas such as feeding, sleeping, toilet training, and illness--to help them separate baby facts from baby fiction.
- ASIN: 0470179392
- ISBN: 0470179392
- Manufacturer: Wiley
Examination of the Newborn: An Evidence Based Guide
Examination of the Newborn: An Evidence Based Guide
Examination of the Newborn: An Evidence Based Guide is a practical and comprehensive guide for practitioners to enable them to undertake physical examination of neonates safely and competently. Incorporating the current UK Screening Committee NIPE Standards and Competencies, this book brings into focus what 'good practice' should look like against current national standards. Avaluable resource for midwives, advanced neonatal nurse practitioners, and health visitors, as well as all other health professionals involved in the examination of the newborn, this text covers: Neonatal examination and history taking Development of the heart and lungs and transition to extrauterine life. Cardiovascular and respiratory assessment of the baby Assessment of the neonatal skin and jaundice Examination of the eyes head and neck Examination of the abdomen and genitalia Abnormalities of the lower extremities including developmental dysplasia of the hip The dysmorphic infant and common congenital abnormalities Behavioural issues Professional issues in practice Safeguarding Children Examination of the Newborn provides essential reading for all health care professionals who are continually striving to update their knowledge and contribute to the standardisation of care on a national scale.
- ASIN: 1405197749
- ISBN: 9781405197748
- Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
Pain, Distress and the Newborn Baby
Pain, Distress and the Newborn Baby
The newborn baby has specific emotional and environmental needs at the beginning of life, and in order for caregivers to create an environment that will promote the baby's well-being, they need to understand how the baby is affected by his/her surroundings. This well researched and referenced book provides detailed and comprehensive information for all those involved in caring for newborn infants. It addresses the key problems, crises and issues in providing security and comfort for the sick and preterm baby in an environment where he can develop and grow, and learn to communicate his needs. The text looks at immediate and long-term goals for the baby and family, to create the most favourable environment for development of potential. This book will be an essential reference for neonatal nurses, paediatric nurses and midwives.
- ASIN: 0632040777
- ISBN: 0632040777
- Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell