Your Baby’s First Year Week by Week
Your Baby’s First Year Week by Week
Let the trusted authors of Your Pregnancy™ Week by Week—the book you relied on while you were pregnant—guide you through baby’s remarkable, sometimes mind-boggling first year. With easy-to-understand information at your fingertips, you’ll know what to look for and comprehend what’s happening. This book will wage you with the skills necessary to support and encourage baby’s growth.
Thoroughly revised and updated, Your Baby’s First Year™ Week by Week includes the late
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Review by eurobin for Your Baby’s First Year Week by Week
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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.
Review by mhsa2mom for Your Baby’s First Year Week by Week
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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.
Review by K. N. Haverkampf for Your Baby’s First Year Week by Week
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I read this book with my first child back in 2004. I don’t think I really looked at it again once she arrived. When we had our second child 4 months ago, I pulled it out. Much to my dismay there is so much wrong info that I just never saw until I had BTDT. The mention of weaning from breast milk to formula at 4 months boggles the mind, especially since the AAP say breast feed until at least one year and the WHO says two. The AAP also do not start solids before 6 months. THe milestones are totally off and the weeks months don’t match.
As a second time mom, I say don’t waste you time with this – Get the Sears book instead.
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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.
Review by Indibean for Your Baby’s First Year Week by Week
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Let me start by saying I had no less than 4 books I consulted on a regular basis during my pregnancy and my favorite was the week to week guide. This book was a huge disappointment.
Not only do the weeks not always correspond to the age of the child (weeks vs. months), but I found that a lot of the milestones were a little ambitious as well. The book also comes across as very judgemental (baby swings are known as neglect-o-matics & cosutmes can scare a baby so keep him home on halloween) and gives you things to worry about without telling you why (to soothe a baby you can swing them, but don’t bounce!). I think the book should offer advice and then it’s up to me to figure out what to do.
At first I thought it was just me being post-partum and sensitive but my baby is 13 weeks old now and I can see, the book is just not helpful. Buy “What to Expect the First Year”. It gives enough information without making you worry about every little thing and gives you enough information to make an informed desicion without telling you what to do.