Synopses & Reviews
With answers to all those questions you forgot to ask your pediatrician, this is a user's manual for newborns Your newborn addresses parents' concerns during a critical phase of their child's life--the first eight weeks. No other book on the market focuses exclusively on medical issues and exclusively on the needs of newborns in a parent friendly manner. After countless conversations with confused and anxious parents, Dr. Natterson has written a book to provide the answers to commonly asked medical questions. This primer explains what is happening inside their baby's body, the reasons behind standard hospital procedures, and what all those tests mean. In Part I, Natterson looks at common newborn medical concerns from the top of the head to the tips of the toes, opening each chapter with a description of how a baby makes the transition from living inside a mother's body to living outside. There are chapters on skin appearance, head, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, neck, chest and lungs, bellybutton, stomach and intestine, hips, bladder and urinary tract, genitals, back, legs and feet. The bulk of the book deals entirely with common medical issues and questions parents have in the immediate aftermath of labor and delivery. Questions concerning feeding (breast and bottle), bathing, rashes, digestion, weight gain, and so on, are addressed in a simple, but comprehensive and reassuring manner. In the age of managed care, many doctors are not able to take the time to provide this kind of basic and concrete medical information required to reassure parents. At the same time, many parents are not able to distill the information they do get from the doctor's advice because, even with perfectly healthybabies, they don't always have their wits about them once the doctor finally arrives to ask the questions they have, or they are reluctant to waste a doctor's time. This book is an authoritative resource that parents can refer to before delivery, in the hospital, and, once they arrive home, at 2:00 AM.
Synopsis
An authoritative resource that parents can refer to before delivery, in the hospital, and, as weeks pass and need arises, at 2 A.M., this book features scores of references to reliable Web sites and other sources of the most up-to-date pediatrics information for parents.