Caring for Your Baby and Young Child – Birth to Age 5
It’s Sunday after dark. Your baby is sick, hurt, or acting strangely, and the doctor won’t be in until tomorrow. How can you find out what to do when your healthcare professionals are unreachable? You may only need to go as far as your bookshelf. The revised edition of Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 (the American Academy of Pediatrics’ reference book for infancy through preschool), provides a wealth of authoritative child-care information in an easy-to-use format.
The first half of this hefty text serves as a comprehensive parenting manual, and includes a month-by-month guide to the first year, nutritional information, basic care instructions, and physical, emotional, and social developmental milestones for children up to 5 years old.
While the American Academy of Pediatrics represents the mainstream child-rearing philosophies embraced by thousands of baby doctors, it does not reflect the entire gamut of child-rearing theory. (There’s no discussion, for instance, of breast-feeding past the first year or co-sleeping.)
The second half of the book includes a thorough, easy-to-navigate emergency first-aid section, plus detailed information about childhood illnesses, immunization schedules and side effects, and family structures, as well as a discussion of behavioral issues. Caring for Your Baby and Young Child is useful, sensible, and carefully researched, and makes a trustworthy addition to any parent’s bookshelf. –Ericka Lutz
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It’s unfortunate that the American Academy of Pediatrics would use this book to push their political agendas about gun control. On page 394 it says “The American Academy of Pediatrics strongly supports gun control legislation. We believe that handguns, deadly air guns, and assault weapons should be banned. Until handguns are banned, we recommend that handgun ammunition be regulateed, that restrictions be placed on handgun ownership, and the the number of privately owned handguns be reduced.”
People who are buying this book are looking for baby advice, not political garbage. It’s sad that AAP would stoop so low to include comments such as this.
We received this book as a gift, and I’m sorry that anyone spent money on it.
Rating: 1 / 5
I learned some from this text but expected more. The text remains fairly general and that’s okay.
I had hoped to read more about disabled children and how to give the disabled children the best possible potential in life (without government intrusion). I got so MUCH out of disabling America (ISBN #0785262253) and I went here to learn from a medical perspective what I wanted to learn.
I do understand this must maintain a general nature and in that light, it’s good info.
Rating: 3 / 5
Please don’t use this as your sole or primary source of infant/child care and development information!
First of all, it incorporates an enormous amount of MISinformation, which is shocking considering it’s written by various members of the AAP. On the other hand, most of them probably aren’t raising their own babies all day, that’s what their wives and housekeepers are for!
The most egregious errors have to do with breastfeeding information, sleep management, and soothing techniques. This is a considerable problem, because quite frankly, what are you doing with the baby for the first several years if not dealing with food, poop, and a crying kid?
I have four kids, and as far as I’m concerned, the best book available for learning about your baby and child is Dr. Sears “Baby Book”.
Now, go kiss that adorable baby!
Rating: 2 / 5
This book is really vague and just gives you brief information on different topics, stages, etc. Don’t waste your time buying or reading through this book. Instead, get ‘What to Expect the First Year’ by Eisenberg, Murkoff, and Hathaway….this book addresses individual concerns/topics and is very informative. As a new mother, ‘What to Expect the First Year’ has really helped me get through some tough nights.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book contains a lot of bad advice for any mother intending to breastfeed. Their suggested schedule for weaning would almost guarantee engorgement and possibly mastitis, completely unnecessarily. They assume weaning will occur quite early, and the baby will be weaned to a bottle with formula. They mislead parents into expecting their four month old baby to sleep 10 or 12 hours in a row without feeding at night (unlikely regardless of feeding, really unlikely if breastfeeding). They urge unnecessary supplementation with solid foods or iron for breastfed babies at four months. While there is some merit in this book (it’s nice to know what a pediatrician would tell you without having to make the phone call or office visit), it’s quite limited. Hopefully further revisions will address these and many other problems.
Rating: 1 / 5