Well Baby Book

by Mike Samuels, Nancy H. Samuels

Presents child care alternatives ranging from communicating with the baby before birth to methods of feeding, bathing, and diapering

464 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Michael Samuels, M.D., a physician, artist, guided imagery specialist, and author is one of the foremost experts in body, mind, spirit medicine today. His best selling books The Well Body Book, Well Baby Book, Well Pregnancy Book were amongst the first books in self help and holistic medicine. As a physician, he has worked with guided imagery and patients with life threatening illness for over 25 years. His book Seeing With the Mind’s Eye was the first book on guided imagery and is the classic in the field. As Director of Art As A Healing Force an organization which networks artists and healers he is a leading expert on art and healing and creativity and healing.

Reviews

[Carolyn F. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Someone bought this for me when my first daughter was born in 1986 and boy I loved it. There are some really hippy-ish stuff in there which I ignored but what I loved about this book, is it's written by a doctor. There's a fantastic section in the back that is well worth the price of this book. So, when your baby has spots on her stomach, you go to the back of the book and it'll say if the spots are here and here and if they look like this and if she's got a fever, then it's probably this and this is what the doctor will do and this is what you can do at home, and look out for this because it might mean that. So valuable! Sometimes all it took was a couple of at home remedies and she'd be fine in a couple of hours or the next morning. And other times it would send me straight to the doctor. I would turn to this book all the time when she was growing up and when my next daughter was born 11 years later, I was still using the old version but bought the revised which is about the same - which means excellent. Such a great book to have on hand when your baby is up at night and you don't know what's the matter but know it's not emergency room worthy. I would definitely recommend this book to all of you out there who have children, grandchildren, friends with children, etc.

[Yycdaisy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was such a great alternative to the books by Benjamin Spock. This book was much easier to read and in the days before the internet, had all kinds of good advice you had a hard time finding out about. Wish I'd kept my copy for my daughter.