Guide & Grow: Baby's 1st Year: A Monthly Guide to Development, Milestones and Activities to Support Baby's Development

by Sharon Drewlo

The first year of life is one of the most important stages for your baby's brain growth and development!   

With over 30 years of experience in guiding parents in their child's development, pediatric occupational therapist Sharon Drewlo brings you  GUIDE & Baby's 1st Year, an easy-to-navigate monthly guide to understanding and supporting your baby's development throughout the first year.

This book provides you

A thorough list of monthly milestones and development in 9   Fine Motor   •   Gross Motor   •   Social-Emotional   •   Self-Help          Communication   •   Cognitive and Play   •   Visual   •   Visual-Motor   •   SensoryA wide variety of easy-to-implement activities and strategies in each month that can be incorporated into daily routines to support baby's development  Examples of developmental concerns to discuss with your health care providerA Baby Development Tracker Template for you to record baby's achievements and memorable momentsA page for notes at the end of each chapter - use the notes and tracker to refer to at appointments with your health care providerWith GUIDE & Baby's 1st Year, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of your baby's development and have a wide variety of activities and strategies to help support your little one's development all the way to their 1st birthday!

Genres: Parenting

184 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 30, 2020

Reviews

[Jordyn Roesler | Sorry, Booked Solid · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great resource to have if you are expecting or just had a baby. It's broken into bite-sized chunks by age (0-3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, etc.) and full of milestone checklists, safety tips, product and activity ideas. Some of the information in here was new to me, and some I had heard many times and was nice to have as peace-of-mind that what I'm doing is right for my baby and family.

[Kuleigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great introduction to milestones you can expect in a baby's first year of life. I found the activities particularly helpful. The author includes a lot of ways to engage with your baby that require minimal effort. I read a few chapters at a time to refresh my memory with baby #2 and get ready for what was to come. This is a book that you'll want to bookmark and come back to from time to time.

[Ruth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another super useful guidebook- this one is for the full first year with each chapter covering a new month of milestones of development. In addition to checklists for developmental norms & milestones, Drewlo also gives a few pages of recommended activities for encouraging healthy, timely development. They are simple, practical and I found them so helpful!

[Barb Wild · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a soon to be Grammy I thought my daughter could use this book first time around. I loved it myself. Descriptive but not overly medical. Would surely suggest to new moms !

[Lydia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kindle Unlimited

Quick and easy read; chapters separated by month; some activities offered. Would read other books as well as not comprehensive.

[Daniella · Rating 3 out of 5]

Looking forward to the next year and now a little more prepared for what it will bring.