Baby Milestones: What to Expect and How to Stimulate Your Childs Development from 0-3 Years

by Carol Cooper

Learn about the stages of early physical and emotional growth, learning and development and help your child achieve those important milestones, such as first words, first steps and first recognizable drawings. Doctor Carol Cooper advises on the best games and activities to help stimulate your child's mental, emotional and physical development and addresses common concerns, including key issues on health and safety.

Genres: Nonfiction

688 pages, Paperback

First published May 28, 2006

About the author

I've been making up stories for as long as I can remember. My first novel ONE NIGHT AT THE JACARANDA, in which a motley group of Londoners look for love, was described by The Sun newspaper as 'a blinder of a tale.'

HAMPSTEAD FEVER tells the story of six intertwined lives one hot summer as emotions reach boiling point. Think ‘Love, Actually’, but in a heatwave.

Now you can also read THE GIRLS FROM ALEXANDRIA, my historical novel set in Egypt. It's the frank and sometimes funny story of a woman searching for her missing sister, her lost memory, and her family origins.

In my other life, I'm a family doctor and the author of a string of health books.

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I checked out this book from the library because I realized that I didn't know if Baby was hitting the milestones that are typical of babies. Especially because she wasn't walking at 13 months. Which is fine and normal! But a mom starts to wonder about it a lot when all the other (younger) babies at library storytime are literally running circles around Baby.

The book is broken down in sections, covering newborn to age 3. I jumped in at the 9-12 month section, and also read the 12-18 month, 18-24 month, 2-2 1/2 years, and 2 1/2-3 years sections (to know what I have to look forward to). I liked the section breakdowns, and how each part had 'major milestones', 'summary of development', and then went into further details covering growth and health, sleeping, motor development, learning, communication, coordination, etc. It was a lot faster to read than my What to Expect the Second Year! The book was a bit repetitive because I would read all the sections in one go, afraid to miss anything, but I could have really skipped reading the summaries (use them for quick reference).

The book covered delays and disorders, but was never scary. Overall it was a reassuring book. I'd recommend it to other parents.

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a decent book about child development. The sections were broken into small age ranges and the layout made it easy to quickly find information. It must be that Carol Cooper is a British person because of some of the language in this book. Still one could figure it out easily enough and I have enjoyed looking up each stage of development here.

[Jane Gorski · Rating 2 out of 5]

Maybe British babies develop differently or this book is already out of date but I stopped reading after several questionable entries.