Gentle Baby Care - Elizabeth Pantley & Harvey Karp

Product Description

From the bestselling author of The No-Cry Sleep Solution--everything parents need to know during their baby's first year

Gentle Baby Care provides immediate answers to the daily questions that arise when caring for a baby.

Written by bestselling author and parenting expert Elizabeth Pantley, this valuable guide includes information and practical tips to allow readers to choose the gentle, loving solutions that best suit their parenting style and their baby. Gentle Baby Care provides more than 1,000 practical tips and solutions to the everyday issues that arise during a child's first year, including:
* Colic
* Teething
* Colds
* Sleep
* Diaper rash
* Independent play
* Traveling with baby
* Developmental milestones

Product Details
* Amazon Sales Rank: #41564 in Books
* Published on: 2003-09-15
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 640 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
From the bestselling author of The No-Cry Sleep Solution comes a complete reference filled with loving solutions for caring for your new baby

It's often been said that babies should come with an owner's manual. Now, Gentle Baby Care fills that need for the millions of parents immersed in the most hands-on experience of their lives: caring for their newborn babies.

Organized alphabetically to help you find much-needed information within seconds, Gentle Baby Care provides immediate answers to the questions that arise daily when caring for a baby during the first year, from soothing a fussy baby to handling well-meaning yet unwanted advice with grace. Written by bestselling author and parenting expert Elizabeth Pantley, Gently Baby Care will help you become a confident, caring parent. Here you'll find hundreds of practical tips and solutions that allow you to choose the gentle, loving approach that best suits your parenting style and your baby. Gentle Baby Care includes:
* Tips to help get your reluctant napper to sleep
* Ways to make your baby more comfortable during illness
* Guidelines to help you choose diapers, bags, strollers, and car seats
* The golden rules of babyproofing
* Advice on how to handle breastfeeding in public
* And so much more!

Whether this is your first baby or your fourth, Gentle Baby Care provides confidence-building advice to help you get through the many firsts in this tiring yet wonderfully exhilarating first year.

About the Author

Elizabeth Pantley is a parent educator and president of Better Beginnings, Inc., a family resource and education company. She is frequently quoted as a parenting expert in such magazines as Parents, Parenting, Working Mother, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping, and Redbook.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Foreword Congratulations on your new baby! You have now joined the long and respected chain of mothers and fathers stretching back to the very beginning of families. In many ways, caring for your new baby will be totally natural and instinctual. Yet, you will certainly have many questions . . . that's normal, too. Although parents today are the most educated in history, in many respects we are also the least experienced. Parents in the past had a whole network of support at hand. They usually had their parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles nearby in which to get help and advice. Also, as they grew up, they had lots of hands-on experience caring for younger siblings, cousins, and neighbors. Their hundreds of hours of tiny-tot training (from diaper duty to burping to rocking a child to sleep) really made them feel prepared for having their own newborn. But today's parents are different. We often live farther away from our baby-savvy relatives. And, as amazing as it sounds, many moms and dads barely have even held a baby before giving birth and being handed their own little bundle by the nurse. I don't know how much hands-on baby practice you have, but most parents I see in my practice have very little to none. (No wonder new parents sometimes joke that they expect some type of a "shoplifting alarm" to go off when they leave the hospital!) But, don't worry! Even if you don't know everything about babies, Elizabeth Pantley does. Like her extraordinary book The No-Cry Sleep Solution, Elizabeth's Gentle Baby Care is a warm, fact-filled, and practical book. Her advice is guided by love and a level head. With her broad experience as a parenting educator and mother of four children, this book is the next best thing to having a wise, experienced friend living next door. I have no doubt that Gentle Baby Care will be a valuable addition to your library, whether you are a first-time parent or an old experienced pro.

Dr. Harvey Karp

Dr. Harvey Karp is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine, with a private practice in Santa Monica. He is the author of the book and award-winning video entitled The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Baby Sleep Longer.