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Title:
What to expect the first year / Heidi Murkoff ; Sharon Mazel, Arlene Eisenberg & Sandee Hathaway.
Author:
Murkoff, Heidi Eisenberg.

Mazel, Sharon.

Eisenberg, Arlene.

Hathaway, Sandee Eisenberg.
Publication Information:
New York , NY : Workman Pub., c2010.
Call Number:
HQ774 .E47 2010
Abstract:
For each of 12 months, there are guides to the progress the baby may be expected to be making at this stage, a list of potential health or other problems and paragraphs on the myriad questions all new parents ask--on subjects as various as in-home care, birthmarks, circumcision and breath-holding. Other sections cover what to buy for a new-born, first aid, recipes, adoption and even how to enjoy the first year, in terms of the parents' own activities, such as social life and sex.
Edition:
2nd ed. [rev.]
Physical Description:
xxv, 806 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Foreword: Parenting book that stands alone / Mark D Widome -- Introduction: Second baby is born -- Part 1: First Year: -- Chapter 1: Get ready, get set -- Feeding your baby: breast or formula, or both -- Facts favoring breastfeeding -- Breastfeeding myths -- Facts favoring formula feeding -- Factoring in feelings -- When you can't or shouldn't breastfeed -- Adoption and breastfeeding -- What you may be wondering about -- Coping with motherhood -- Mother care -- Changing lifestyle -- This books' for you, too -- Whether or not to go back to work -- Leave: it's not just for mothers anymore -- Grandparents -- Lack of grandparents -- Baby nurse or doula -- Other sources of help -- Circumcision -- Which diapers to use -- Quitting smoking -- Name for baby -- Preparing the family pet -- Preparing your breasts for breastfeeding -- Don't express yourself-yet -- All About: Selecting the right physician -- Pediatrician or family practitioner? -- Health insurance for a healthy family -- What kind of practice is perfect? -- Finding Dr Right -- Making sure Dr Right is right for you -- When the choice isn't yours -- Prenatal interview -- Your partnership with Dr Right -- Chapter 2: Buying for baby -- Register for your baby needs -- Baby's wardrobe -- Baby's linens -- Baby's grooming needs -- Don't go nuts -- Baby's medicine cabinet -- Baby feeding supplies -- Nursery necessities and niceties -- Calling all recalls -- Equipment for outings -- What's in a buckle? -- Rear-facing infant seat -- LATCH system -- Convertible seat/forward-facing seat -- When baby gets older -- Buying for baby's future -- Chapter 3: Breastfeeding basics -- Getting started breastfeeding -- Getting help -- Breastfeeding 101 -- How lactation works -- Beginning to breastfeed -- Breastfeeding positions -- Proper latch -- Sucking versus suckling -- How long to feed -- What type of nurser is your baby? -- How often to feed -- What you may be wondering about -- Colostrum -- Engorged breasts -- Overabundant milk -- Leaking and spraying -- Let-down -- Cluster feedings -- Sore nipples -- Bumps on the road to success? -- Time spent breastfeeding -- Nursing fashions -- Nursing in public -- Lump in breast -- Mastitis -- Breastfeeding during illness -- Breastfeeding while menstruating -- Birth control and the breastfeeding mother -- Exercise and nursing -- Combining breast and bottle -- Nipple confusion got you confused? -- Relactation -- All About: Keeping your milk healthy and safe -- What you eat -- Can foods make milk? -- What you drink -- What medication you take -- What you should avoid -- No peanuts while feeding your little peanut? -- Chapter 4: Your newborn baby -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at hospital checkups -- Testing your baby -- Newborn hearing screening -- Portrait of a newborn -- Apgar test -- Apgar table -- Your newborn's reflexes -- Hospital procedures for babies born at home -- Feeding your baby: getting started formula feeding -- Selecting a formula -- Need help at the breast? -- DHA: the smart choice in baby formulas? -- How much formula is like a feast? -- Safe bottle feeding -- Bottle feeding with love -- From bottle with love -- Bottle feeding with ease -- What you may be wondering about -- Birthweight -- Bonding -- For fathers only: becoming engrossed -- Weight loss -- Baby's looks -- Eye color -- Bloodshot eyes -- Eye ointment -- Rooming-in -- Have you heard the one -- Pain medication -- Baby's sleepiness -- Newborn state of mind -- Empty breasts -- Gagging and choking -- Sleeping through meals -- Cracking the crying code -- Nonstop feeding -- Tips for successful feeding sessions -- Quivering chin -- Startling -- Birthmarks -- Complexion problems -- Mouth cysts or spots -- Early teeth -- Don't forget to cover your baby -- Thrush -- Jaundice -- Think you can't afford to cover your baby? -- Newborn security -- Scoop on newborn poop -- Stool color -- Going home -- Pacifier use -- All About: Baby care primer -- Bathing baby -- Shampooing baby -- Safe seating -- Safety from all sides? -- Burping baby -- Diapering baby -- Dressing baby -- Ear care -- Lifting and carrying baby -- Nail trimming -- Nose care -- Outings with baby -- Penis care -- Baby business -- Sleeping position -- Swaddling baby -- Umbilical stump care --

Chapter 5: First month -- What your baby may be doing -- What your baby may be doing this month -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby this month: expressing breast milk -- Why mothers express milk -- Choosing a pump -- All about pumps -- Fascinating facts -- Pumping practice makes perfect -- Preparing to pump -- Tell tales from the other side -- How to express breast milk -- Where does the milk go? -- Quick tip -- Storing breast milk -- What you may be wondering about -- Breaking baby -- Fontanels -- Skinny baby -- Having enough breast milk -- Baby getting enough breast milk -- Nursing blisters -- Feeding schedule -- Double the trouble, double the fun -- Changing your mind about breastfeeding -- Too much formula -- Timing is everything -- Supplementary water -- Vitamin supplements -- Supplement sense -- Spitting up -- Quick tip -- Blood in spit-up -- Milk allergy -- Milk allergy in breastfed babies -- Bowel movements -- Explosive bowel movements -- Passing gas -- Constipation -- Sleeping positions -- Sleeping patterns -- Restless sleep -- Mixing up of night and day -- Noise when baby is sleeping -- Baby's breathing -- Better sleep for baby -- Moving a sleeping baby to bed -- Crying -- Colic -- Surviving colic -- Prescription for colic -- Spoiling baby -- Coping with crying -- Pacifier -- Healing of the umbilical cord -- Umbilical hernia -- Circumcision care -- Swollen scrotum -- Hypospadias -- Swaddling -- Keeping baby the right temperature -- Taking baby out -- Exposure to outsiders -- Infant acne -- Skin color changes -- Hearing -- Loud music -- Vision -- Keeping baby safe -- Photo flashes -- Crossed eyes -- Teary eyes -- Sneezing -- First smiles -- Hiccups -- Using detergent on baby's clothes -- All About: Baby development -- Today's slower babies -- What month is it, anyway? -- Chapter 6: Second month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Making the most of those monthly checkups -- Feeding your baby: introducing the bottle -- Bottle-free -- Supplementation myths -- What's in the bottle? -- Winning baby over -- Mix it up -- Making the introduction -- Supplementing when baby isn't thriving -- What you may be wondering about -- Smiling -- Look who's talking -- Cooing -- How do you talk to a baby? -- Baby talk -- Second language -- Understanding your baby -- Making the most of the first three years -- Comparing babies -- Immunization -- Immunization myths -- ABCs of DTaPs and MMrs and IPVs -- Recommended immunization schedule -- When to call the doctor after an immunization -- Cradle cap -- Crooked feet -- Undescended testicles -- Penile adhesion -- Inguinal hernia -- Inverted nipples -- Favoring one breast -- Using a baby carrier or sling -- Challenging baby -- Do you have a challenging baby? -- Baby won't sleep on back -- All About: Stimulating your baby in the early months -- Creating a good environment -- Practical tips for learning and playing -- Location, location, location -- Chapter 7: Third month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: breastfeeding and working -- Breastfeeding and working-making them work for you -- Corporate lactation programs -- What you may be wondering about -- Establishing a regular schedule -- Putting baby to bed --Dueling parenting philosophies -- Waking up for nighttime feedings -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) -- What is SIDS? -- Reducing the risk of SIDS -- Reporting breathing emergencies to your doctor -- Sharing a room with baby -- Sharing a bed -- Still using a pacifier -- Early weaning -- Supplementing with cow's milk -- Longer the better -- Fewer bowel movements -- Diaper rash -- Penis sore -- Spastic movements -- Roughhousing -- Never shake a baby -- Being tied down breastfeeding -- Leaving baby with a sitter -- All About: Right child care for baby -- In-home care -- Baby-sitter checklist -- Nanny in the know -- Is he manny enough for the job? -- Business of hiring a nanny -- Keeping an eye on the sitter -- Group day care -- Your child as a barometer of child care -- Home day care -- Corporate day care -- Safe sleeping -- Babies on the job -- When your child is sick -- Chapter 8: Fourth month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: thinking about solids -- What you may be wondering about -- Rejection of the breast -- Wriggling at changing time -- Propping baby -- Baby's standing -- Baby fussing in infant seat -- Baby unhappy in car seat -- Thumb sucking -- Chubby baby -- Hold the juice -- Thin baby -- How does your baby grow? -- Heart murmur -- Black stool -- Baby massage -- Exercise -- All About: Playthings for baby -- Suitable for cuddling --

Chapter 9: Fifth month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: starting solids -- Good early foods to offer baby -- Opening night-and beyond -- Foods to premiere with -- Not this year, baby -- Expanding baby's repertoire -- First-year diet for beginners -- Who's counting? -- Baby daily dozen -- No honey for your little honey -- Double-duty jars -- What you may be wondering about -- Teething -- Teething chart -- Chronic cough -- Ear pulling -- Naps -- Eczema -- Using a back carrier -- Gratuitous advice -- Starting the cup -- Sippy safety -- Feeding baby safely -- Food allergies -- Feeding chairs -- Walkers -- Feeding chair safety tips -- Reducing walker risks -- Jumpers -- Baby swing -- All About: Environmental hazards and your baby -- Protecting children -- Household pest control -- Lead -- Unsuitable for digging? -- Otherwise contaminated water -- BPA concerns -- Polluted indoor air -- Safer walk on the wild side -- Contaminants in food -- Food hazards in perspective -- Out of the mouths of babes -- Organic foods-growing availability -- Chapter 10: Sixth month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: commercial or home-prepared baby foods -- Commercial baby food -- Food for thought -- Home-prepared baby foods -- Attention do-it-yourselfers -- What you may be wondering about -- Still not sleeping through the night -- It's all in the timing -- What will the neighbors think? -- Sleep sharing -- Early rising -- Turning over during the night -- Bathing in the big tub -- Safe big-bath bathing -- Bottle rejection in a breastfed baby -- Changes in bowel movements -- Brushing baby's teeth -- Baby's first toothbrush -- Baby-bottle mouth -- Weaning to cow's milk -- Salt intake -- Cereal snubbing -- Vegan diet -- No meat? No problem -- Anemia screenings -- Shoes for baby -- All About: Stimulating your older baby -- How do you speak to your baby now? -- Chapter 11: Seventh month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: moving up from strained foods -- What you may be wondering about -- Picking up baby -- Grandparents spoiling baby -- Baby's acting up with you -- Is my baby gifted? -- Not sitting yet -- Biting nipples -- Snacking -- Dinner and a baby -- Grazing -- Teeth coming in crooked -- Tooth stains -- All About: Putting the super in baby -- Chapter 12: Eighth month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: finally-finger foods -- What you may be wondering about -- Baby's first words -- Signing with baby -- Baby's not crawling yet -- Scooting -- Messy house -- Eating off the floor -- Eating dirt-and worse -- Getting dirty -- Erections -- Discovering genitals -- Play yard/playpen use -- Reading to baby -- Left- or right-handedness -- Crib safety now -- Childproofing your home -- All About: Making home safe for baby -- Change your ways -- Change your baby's surroundings -- Poison control -- Safety equipment -- Change your baby -- Red light on greenery -- Chapter 13: Ninth month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: establishing good habits now -- What you may be wondering about -- Feeding baby at the table -- Loss of interest in nursing -- Got milk? Not yet -- Fussy eating habits -- Some cereal with that butternut squash? -- Self-feeding -- Strange stools -- Changes in sleep patterns -- Pulling up -- Flat feet -- Walking too early? -- Slow development -- Fear of strangers -- Security objects -- No teeth -- Still hairless -- All About: Games babies play -- Chapter 14: Tenth month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: when to wean -- What you may be wondering about -- Messy eating habits -- Head banging, rocking, and rolling -- Hair rolling and pulling -- Teeth grinding -- Biting -- Baby social scene -- Blinking -- Breath holding -- Starting classes -- Shoes for walking -- Hair care -- Fears -- All About: Beginning of discipline -- To spank or not to spank -- Chapter 15: Eleventh month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: weaning from the bottle -- What you may be wondering about -- Bowed legs -- Parental nudity -- Falls -- Not pulling up yet -- Baby tooth injuries -- Cholesterol in baby's diet -- Growth swings -- All About: Helping baby to talk -- Chapter 16: Twelfth month -- What your baby may be doing -- You know your baby best -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: weaning from the breast -- Weaning from the breast -- Keeping yourself comfortable -- Milk sense -- What you may be wondering about -- First birthday party -- Not yet walking -- Handle with care -- Increased separation anxiety -- Attachment to the bottle -- Don't have a cow -- Putting the weaned baby to bed -- Bedtime separation anxiety -- Shyness -- Social skills -- Sharing -- Hitting -- Forgetting a skill -- Drop in appetite -- Picky eating -- Going nuts? -- Increase in appetite -- Refusing to self-feed -- Growing independence -- Nonverbal language -- Gender differences -- Toddler years continued -- Switching to a bed -- Using a pillow -- Watching TV -- Multimedia for babies -- Hyperactivity -- Negativism -- All About: Stimulating your one-year-old -- Eyes have it already -- Safety reminder --

Part 2: Of Special Concern: -- Chapter 17: Baby for all seasons -- What you may be wondering about in summer weather -- Keeping baby cool -- Summer rash -- Heatstroke -- Too much sun -- What to look for in selecting a sunscreen -- Insect bites -- Summer safety -- Water, baby? -- Water babies -- As the food turns -- What you may be wondering about in winter weather -- Keeping baby warm -- Changeable weather -- Frostbite -- Snow burn -- Keeping baby warm indoors -- Dry skin -- Fireplace fires -- Holiday hazards -- Safe gift giving -- Under wraps -- All About: Season for travel -- Planning ahead -- Just the two of you? -- Packing wisely -- Getting there is half the fun? -- At high altitudes -- At hotels and motels-or other homes away from home -- Having fun -- Chapter 18: When baby is sick -- Before calling the doctor -- Parent's intuition -- How much rest for a sick baby? -- Feeding a sick baby -- When medication is needed -- What you should know about the medication -- Giving medication correctly -- Helping the medicine go down -- Most common infant health problems -- Allergies -- Having a pet is nothing to sneeze at -- Is it an allergy-or just intolerance? -- Cold or allergy? -- Common cold or upper respiratory infection (URI) -- Taking the bite out of the flu bug -- Treating baby's symptoms -- Hand-washing solution -- Frequent cold program -- Sudden cough -- Constipation -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- Diarrhea -- Middle ear inflammation (otitis media) -- Better juice for your sick baby? -- Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) -- Your baby's health history -- Urinary tract infection (UTI) -- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) -- All About: Fever -- Convulsions in a feverish baby -- Taking baby's temperature -- Fever doesn't tell the whole story -- Evaluating a fever -- Before that first fever -- Handling febrile convulsions -- Treating a fever -- Acetaminophen or ibuprofen? -- Chapter 19: First aid do's and don'ts -- Abdominal injuries -- Bites -- Bleeding, internal -- Broken bones or fractures -- Bruises, skin -- Burns and scalds -- Be prepared -- Chemical burns -- Choking -- Convulsions -- Cuts -- Dislocations -- Dog bites -- Drowning (submersion injury) -- Ear injuries -- Electric shock -- Eye injury -- Fainting/loss of consciousness -- Finger and toe injuries -- Treating a young patient -- Frostbite and hypothermia -- Head injuries -- Heat injuries -- Hypothermia -- Insect stings or bites -- Lip, split or cut -- Mouth injuries -- Nose injuries -- Poisoning -- Poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac -- Puncture wounds -- Scrapes -- Severed limb or digit -- Shock -- Skin wounds -- Bandaging a boo-boo -- Splinters or slivers -- Sunburn -- Swallowed foreign objects -- Teeth, injury to -- Toe injuries -- Tongue, injury to -- Resuscitation techniques for babies and children -- When baby is choking -- Unsuspected inhaled object -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR): rescue breathing and chest compression -- Rescue breathing (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation -- Chest compressions (CPR): babies under one year -- Chest compressions (CPR): children over one year -- CPR: the most important class you'll hopefully never need -- Chapter 20: Low-birthweight baby -- Feeding your baby: nutrition for the preterm or low-birthweight infant -- Early weight loss -- Expressing milk for a premature baby -- Feeding at home -- What you may be wondering about -- Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) -- Portrait of a preemie -- Getting optimum care -- Lack of bonding -- Lights out? -- Long hospitalization -- Intrauterine growth restriction -- Siblings -- Breastfeeding -- Handling baby -- Taking baby home -- Permanent problems -- Catching up -- Car seats -- Preemie vaccines -- Guilt -- Home-care tips for preterm babies -- All About: Health problems common in low-birthweight babies -- Rehospitalization -- Chapter 21: Special needs baby -- Feeding your baby: can diet make a difference? -- What you may be wondering about -- Feeding responsible -- Feeling angry -- When the guilt is real -- Not loving the baby -- Working out your feelings -- What to tell others -- Handling it all -- Be a friend in deed -- Getting the right diagnosis -- Just the facts -- Where to go for help -- Whether or not to accept treatment -- Getting the best care and treatment -- Effect of baby on siblings -- Effects on your relationship -- Repeat with the next baby -- Different birth defect next time -- All About: Most common birth disorders -- AIDS/HIV-perinatal -- Anencephaly -- Autism -- Celiac disease -- Cerebral palsy -- Cleft lip and/or palate -- Clubfoot and other foot and ankle deformities -- Congential heart defect -- Cystic Fibrosis (CF) -- Deformation -- Down syndrome -- Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) -- Hydrocephalus -- Malformation -- Pyloric stenosis -- RH disease -- When diagnosis makes all the difference -- Sickle-cell anemia -- Spina bifida (open spine) -- Tay-Sachs disease -- How defects are inherited -- Thalassemia -- Tracheoesophageal fistula -- Chapter 22: Adopted baby -- What you may be wondering about -- Getting ready -- Adoption medicine -- Not feeling like a parent -- Loving the baby -- Baby's crying a lot -- Waiting period -- Postadoption blues -- Breastfeeding an adopted baby -- Grandparents' attitudes -- Unknown health problems -- Dealing with friends and family -- Adoption antibodies -- Telling baby -- Support for the adopting family -- Adoption benefits --

Part 3: For The Family: -- Chapter 23: For mom: enjoying the first year -- What you should be eating: the postpartum diet -- Nine basic diet principles for new mothers -- Daily dozen for postpartum and breastfeeding -- One-two punch -- If you're not breastfeeding -- What you may be wondering about -- Exhaustion -- Newly delivered? -- Postpartum depression -- Getting help for postpartum depression -- Getting everything done -- Not being in control -- Not feeling competent -- When you're on your own -- Doing things right -- Aches and pains -- Return of menstruation -- Time to stock up on tampons? -- Urinary incontinence -- It's Kegel time again -- Regaining your figure -- Getting back into shape -- Stroller exercise -- Fitting sex in -- Easing back into sex -- Slight spotting alert -- Stretched vagina -- State of your romance -- Thinking about the next baby -- Planning ahead -- Birth control -- Hormonal contraceptive warning signs -- IUD warning signs -- Barrier method warning signs -- Basal body temperature -- Diagnosing a new pregnancy -- Passing germs on to baby -- Finding time for yourself -- Finding outside interests -- Bring baby along -- Friendships -- Different mothering styles -- Jealousy of daddy's parenting skills -- Jealousy of daddy's attention to baby -- Quality time -- Leaving baby with a sitter -- All About: Working vs not working -- Family-friendly work -- When to return to your job -- Chapter 24: Becoming a father -- What you may be wondering about -- Paternity leave -- Don't stop here -- Stay-at-home father -- Spouse's baby blues -- Your depression -- Mixed feelings -- It takes three -- Jealousy of mother's attention to baby -- Feeling inadequate as a father -- Father's touch -- Dads matter -- Unfair burden? -- Gift that lasts a lifetime -- Not enough time to spend with baby -- Chapter 25: From only child to older child -- What you may be wondering about -- Preparing an older child -- Read all about it -- Siblings at the birth -- Separation and hospital visits -- Easing the homecoming -- Resentment -- Explaining genital differences -- Nursing in front of an older child -- Older child who wants to nurse -- Helping sibling live with colic -- Regressive behavior -- Older sibling hurting the new baby -- Seeing green? -- Dividing time and attention -- Widely space sibs -- Sibling attachment -- Escalating warfare -- Part 4: Ready Reference: -- Baby's first recipes -- Four to eight months -- Steamed any-kind-of-vegetable -- Stewed any-kind-of-fruit -- Six to twelve months -- Lentil stew -- Baby's first casserole -- Eight to twelve months -- Tomato and cheese pasta -- Baby's first Thanksgiving turkey -- Eggy bread -- Croque bebe -- Banana French toast -- Funny fingers -- Fruit sundae -- Apple-cranberry cubes -- Banana-orange gel -- Peachy frozen yogurt -- Fabulous finger foods -- Quick mealtime ideas -- First birthday cake -- Cream cheese frosting -- Common home remedies -- Cold compresses -- Cold soaks -- Cool compresses -- Eye soaks -- Heating pad -- Hot compresses -- Hot soaks -- Hot-water bottle -- Ice pack -- Increased fluids -- Nasal aspiration -- Saltwater irrigation -- Steam -- Warm compresses -- Dosage chart for common infant-fever medication -- Common childhood infections -- Chart of illnesses -- Height and weight charts -- Index.
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