Bringing Baby Home: A New Owners Manual for First Time Parents

by Laura Zahn

TRADE PB

152 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1993

Reviews

[Quinn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Practical and funny. Sets you up with the one-two punch of here are all the interesting ways an infant could perish in your care, but here's why you shouldn't worry about that too much. So now I'm terrified and weirdly confident. It seems to boil down to: sleep is a thing of the past, keep everything away from baby's face, wash your hands, it's all worth it. So we'll see.

[Heather · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book shows signs of being dated, most notably in discussing in multiple places the debate over whether babies should sleep on tummy, side, or even back. Any current book (let alone the embroidery on every baby sleep sack) will tell you "back is best!" It also is often overly simplistic, although I realize that is part of its aim. Some of the information is useful, particularly for the clueless (or worried) first-time parent, but it mostly felt superfluous. There are better books available.