The First Three Months : America's Foremost Baby and Childcare Experts Answer the Most Frequently Asked Questions

by William Sears

What you should know about caring for your newborn baby. Dr. Bill and Martha Sears, the doctor and nurse husband and wife team who are today widely recognized as America's leading authorities on childcare, have spent decades answering parents' questions about nurturing newborns. In this book they share their expertise bonding with your baby, avoiding common breast feeding problems, learning the language of your newborn, picking the best baby formula, boosting your infant's IQ, establishing a routine for you and your baby, treating diaper rash and other common skin conditions, weight gain in newborns, baby's first shots and screening tests, sight and how your baby perceives the world, baby's breathing-what's normal, constipation, diarrhea, and reading your baby's stools, traveling with your baby, calming a tense baby, and much, much more.

160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Dr. Sears, or Dr. Bill as his "little patients" call him, is the father of eight children as well as the author of over 30 books on childcare. Dr. Bill is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine. Dr. Bill received his pediatric training at Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital in Boston and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto -- the largest children’s hospital in the world, where he served as associate ward chief of the newborn nursery and associate professor of pediatrics. Dr. Sears is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and a fellow of the Royal College of Pediatricians (RCP).Dr. Bill is also a medical and parenting consultant for BabyTalk and Parenting magazines and the pediatrician on the website Parenting.com.

Reviews

[Ami · Rating 2 out of 5]

A few interesting techniques to try when trying to comfort my future small baby. Although, as David pointed out, since I'm not even pregnant, a book about the first three months is sort of jumping the gun. Looking into working my way backwards via The Pregnancy Book. Also had a helpful-looking list of bare essentials to have stocked when baby comes, which I'm going to copy down and see if it actually works. I think the most important thing I got from this is a stirring of maternal feelings and a reminder that yes, babies are cuddly and wonderful. I spent the majority of my 20's actively trying to avoid having a baby, and thinking of it as something that was way too challenging and irresponsible for me to do at that point in my life, so I wasn't gonna do it. And now that I'm mostly ready, I have to remind myself that aside from all the reasons I gave myself why babies are so freaking difficult, which are all still valid, they are also snuggly and adorable and trigger some pretty mushy love hormones. I hope. At least, that's how I feel about my cats.