246mm
189mm

Binding
Hardback

Extent
392 pages

Images
Approx 450

The experts’ guide to caring for your baby from birth through
age three

Raising a healthy newborn and young toddler involves skills and information that parents need to access quickly and easily. Along with their newborns, parents are presented with the tasks of keeping them fed, clean, and comforted and safe from danger and ill health. These are enormous responsibilities in themselves, which can be made even greater if a baby or toddler is problematical in any way. With little available free time, it’s important that parents can readily find out what they need to know and be able to follow that advice accurately and effectively: In some cases, it may even make the difference between life and death. Today, paediatric care is the concern of many different specialists, ranging from nutritionists and breastfeeding technicians to neo-natal physicians and paediatricians to child behaviourists and psychotherapists. Your Babycare Bible has been created by a team of these baby specialists in order to offer parents the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to childrearing for babies and toddlers.

• A comprehensive practical guide to the daily care of babies and toddlers
• In-depth and up-to-date information on recognizing and treating common childhood complaints and coping with emergency procedures
• A month-by-month guide to how your baby will develop and grow
• Special fold-out instant reference pages showing basic babycare and first-aid procedures
• Guidance on different parenting styles and how to “manage” your baby’s care using schedules or baby-led principles
• Advice on the activities, toys, and attitudes that will develop your baby’s abilities
• The latest recommendations for feeding, immunizing, travelling with, and safeguarding your child
• Hundreds of illustrations, including step-by-step photographs to simplify the basic babycare procedures
• The knowledge of experts in the fields of paediatric medicine, nutrition, child development, and child psychology

Tony Waterston, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH, DRCOG, DCH, has been a consultant paediatrician since 1986 with a special interest in community child health, child public health and medical education. He has written over sixty papers and edited a major student textbook in paediatrics, the sole postgraduate text on child public health and the major textbook on tropical paediatrics. Presently, he is Consultant Paediatrician (Community Child Health) and Clinical Senior Lecturer, at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.