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Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 (American Academy of Pediatrics)

by Steven P. Shelov

ISBN13: 9780553379624
ISBN10: 0553379623
Condition: Standard
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Publisher Comments:

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.

    • Synopsis:

    New parents and not-so-new parents will delight in this, the guide pediatricians recommend. After more than one million copies in print, this new revised edition is more timely and practical than ever, while retaining its warm, accessible tone, and illuminating illustrations throughout. Here is advice everyone can trust from the nations leading pediatric specialists.
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    Product Details

    ISBN:
    9780553379624
    Subtitle:
    Birth to Age 5
    Editor:
    Shelov, Steven P.
    Editor:
    Haggerty, Robert J.
    Editor:
    American Academy of Pediatrics
    Publisher:
    Bantam Books
    Location:
    New York :
    Subject:
    Parenting
    Subject:
    Child Care
    Subject:
    Child Development
    Subject:
    Infants & Toddlers
    Subject:
    Infants
    Subject:
    Infants & Toddlers - Infants
    Subject:
    Care and hygiene
    Subject:
    Parenting - General
    Copyright:
    1998
    Edition Number:
    Rev. ed.
    Edition Description:
    Revised
    Series:
    American Academy of Pediatrics
    Publication Date:
    June 1998
    Binding:
    Paperback
    Language:
    English
    Illustrations:
    Yes
    Pages:
    736
    Dimensions:
    9.26x7.30x1.43 in. 2.55 lbs.
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