Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age FiveSteven P. Shelov The organization that represents the nation's finest pediatricians and the most advanced research and practice in the field of child care answers all your medical and parenting questions. Here is sound, reassuring advice on child rearing that covers everything from preparing for childbirth to toilet training to nurturing your child's self-esteem. Here, too, is an indispensable guide to recognizing and solving common childhood health problems, plus detailed instructions for coping with emergency medical situations. Comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date, "Caring for Your Baby and Young Child includes: Basic care from infancy through age five Guidelines and milestones for physical, emotional, social, and cognitive growth A complete health encyclopedia covering injuries, illnesses, congenital diseases, and other disabilities Safety checks for home, outdoors, and car A guide for choosing child-care programs A discussion of family issues from sibling rivalry and adoption to stepfamilies and working mothers And much more "Caring for Your Baby and Young Child is an essential child-care resource for all parents who want to provide the very best care for their children--and the one guide pediatricians routinely recommend and parents can safely trust. |
Contents
Preparing for a New Baby3 | 3 |
Getting the Best Prenatal Care | 9 |
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation | 27 |
Skin | 33 |
Basic Infant Care | 53 |
Nutrition | 79 |
Amount and Schedule of Formula | 115 |
Your Babys First Days125 | 125 |
Abdominal Pain | 603 |
Communicating Hydrocele | 621 |
Food Allergy | 647 |
When Should the Baby Leave | 671 |
Should the Baby Be Circumcised? 23 | 702 |
Cord Blood? | 711 |
for the Babys Arrival | 723 |
Equipment | 747 |
208 | 137 |
The First Month | 149 |
10 | 285 |
246 | 325 |
282 | 361 |
Preparing for Delivery | 391 |
Early Education | 421 |
Part 2 | 507 |
16 | 509 |
A Pediatricians Training | 541 |
Systems | 757 |
Contaminated Fish | 771 |
Cataracts | 783 |
Tear or Lacrimal Production | 793 |
for the Babys Arrival | 801 |
Birthmarks and Hemangiomas | 813 |
FinallyDelivery Day 36 | 816 |
Movement | 865 |
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