What to Expect the First Year

Présentation de l'éditeur WHAT TO EXPECT THE 1st YEAR is a comprehensive and practical month-by-month guide that clearly explains everything parents need to know - or might be worrying about - in the first year with a new baby. Featuring dozens of Q&A sections, as well as a first aid guide and charts on monthly growth and development, feeding and sleeping habits, this is the only book on infant care to address both the physical and the emotional needs of the whole family. Covering the most up-to-date knowledge, both medical and developmental, WHAT TO EXPECT THE 1st YEAR is, above all, down-to-earth and reassuring - and an invaluable aid for all parents of new babies. Revue de presse 'An irreplacable brick of month-by-month common sense that hasn't sold 650,000 copies for nothing and whose appendix on childhood illnesses makes you your own emergency paediatrician' THE TIMES 'a comprehensive and practical month-by-month guide' BABY & YOU 'A great reference book for any parent, and probably the best choice as a handbook for those readers who find a bit of medical advice a real safety net for their own instinctive parenting. It also covers a lot more medical conditions than many of the other publications and it's preferable to calling NHS Direct every time your little one has a nosebleed' JUNIOR Biographie de l'auteur Heidi E. Murkoff is one of the world's leading experts in pregnancy and childcare. She is the principle author of all the titles in the WHAT TO EXPECT series. She lives in Southern California with her husband Erik and two children.