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From the Book - 2nd ed. [rev.]
Foreword: Parenting book that stands alone / Mark D Widome -- Introduction: Second baby is born -- Part 1: First Year: -- Chapter 1: Get ready, get set -- Feeding your baby: breast or formula, or both -- Facts favoring breastfeeding -- Breastfeeding myths -- Facts favoring formula feeding -- Factoring in feelings -- When you can't or shouldn't breastfeed -- Adoption and breastfeeding -- What you may be wondering about -- Coping with motherhood -- Mother care -- Changing lifestyle -- This books' for you, too -- Whether or not to go back to work -- Leave: it's not just for mothers anymore -- Grandparents -- Lack of grandparents -- Baby nurse or doula -- Other sources of help -- Circumcision -- Which diapers to use -- Quitting smoking -- Name for baby -- Preparing the family pet -- Preparing your breasts for breastfeeding -- Don't express yourself-yet -- All About: Selecting the right physician -- Pediatrician or family practitioner? -- Health insurance for a healthy family -- What kind of practice is perfect? -- Finding Dr Right -- Making sure Dr Right is right for you -- When the choice isn't yours -- Prenatal interview -- Your partnership with Dr Right -- Chapter 2: Buying for baby -- Register for your baby needs -- Baby's wardrobe -- Baby's linens -- Baby's grooming needs -- Don't go nuts -- Baby's medicine cabinet -- Baby feeding supplies -- Nursery necessities and niceties -- Calling all recalls -- Equipment for outings -- What's in a buckle? -- Rear-facing infant seat -- LATCH system -- Convertible seat/forward-facing seat -- When baby gets older -- Buying for baby's future -- Chapter 3: Breastfeeding basics -- Getting started breastfeeding -- Getting help -- Breastfeeding 101 -- How lactation works -- Beginning to breastfeed -- Breastfeeding positions -- Proper latch -- Sucking versus suckling -- How long to feed -- What type of nurser is your baby? -- How often to feed -- What you may be wondering about -- Colostrum -- Engorged breasts -- Overabundant milk -- Leaking and spraying -- Let-down -- Cluster feedings -- Sore nipples -- Bumps on the road to success? -- Time spent breastfeeding -- Nursing fashions -- Nursing in public -- Lump in breast -- Mastitis -- Breastfeeding during illness -- Breastfeeding while menstruating -- Birth control and the breastfeeding mother -- Exercise and nursing -- Combining breast and bottle -- Nipple confusion got you confused? -- Relactation -- All About: Keeping your milk healthy and safe -- What you eat -- Can foods make milk? -- What you drink -- What medication you take -- What you should avoid -- No peanuts while feeding your little peanut? -- Chapter 4: Your newborn baby -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at hospital checkups -- Testing your baby -- Newborn hearing screening -- Portrait of a newborn -- Apgar test -- Apgar table -- Your newborn's reflexes -- Hospital procedures for babies born at home -- Feeding your baby: getting started formula feeding -- Selecting a formula -- Need help at the breast? -- DHA: the smart choice in baby formulas? -- How much formula is like a feast? -- Safe bottle feeding -- Bottle feeding with love -- From bottle with love -- Bottle feeding with ease -- What you may be wondering about -- Birthweight -- Bonding -- For fathers only: becoming engrossed -- Weight loss -- Baby's looks -- Eye color -- Bloodshot eyes -- Eye ointment -- Rooming-in -- Have you heard the one -- Pain medication -- Baby's sleepiness -- Newborn state of mind -- Empty breasts -- Gagging and choking -- Sleeping through meals -- Cracking the crying code -- Nonstop feeding -- Tips for successful feeding sessions -- Quivering chin -- Startling -- Birthmarks -- Complexion problems -- Mouth cysts or spots -- Early teeth -- Don't forget to cover your baby -- Thrush -- Jaundice -- Think you can't afford to cover your baby? -- Newborn security -- Scoop on newborn poop -- Stool color -- Going home -- Pacifier use -- All About: Baby care primer -- Bathing baby -- Shampooing baby -- Safe seating -- Safety from all sides? -- Burping baby -- Diapering baby -- Dressing baby -- Ear care -- Lifting and carrying baby -- Nail trimming -- Nose care -- Outings with baby -- Penis care -- Baby business -- Sleeping position -- Swaddling baby -- Umbilical stump care --
Chapter 5: First month -- What your baby may be doing -- What your baby may be doing this month -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby this month: expressing breast milk -- Why mothers express milk -- Choosing a pump -- All about pumps -- Fascinating facts -- Pumping practice makes perfect -- Preparing to pump -- Tell tales from the other side -- How to express breast milk -- Where does the milk go? -- Quick tip -- Storing breast milk -- What you may be wondering about -- Breaking baby -- Fontanels -- Skinny baby -- Having enough breast milk -- Baby getting enough breast milk -- Nursing blisters -- Feeding schedule -- Double the trouble, double the fun -- Changing your mind about breastfeeding -- Too much formula -- Timing is everything -- Supplementary water -- Vitamin supplements -- Supplement sense -- Spitting up -- Quick tip -- Blood in spit-up -- Milk allergy -- Milk allergy in breastfed babies -- Bowel movements -- Explosive bowel movements -- Passing gas -- Constipation -- Sleeping positions -- Sleeping patterns -- Restless sleep -- Mixing up of night and day -- Noise when baby is sleeping -- Baby's breathing -- Better sleep for baby -- Moving a sleeping baby to bed -- Crying -- Colic -- Surviving colic -- Prescription for colic -- Spoiling baby -- Coping with crying -- Pacifier -- Healing of the umbilical cord -- Umbilical hernia -- Circumcision care -- Swollen scrotum -- Hypospadias -- Swaddling -- Keeping baby the right temperature -- Taking baby out -- Exposure to outsiders -- Infant acne -- Skin color changes -- Hearing -- Loud music -- Vision -- Keeping baby safe -- Photo flashes -- Crossed eyes -- Teary eyes -- Sneezing -- First smiles -- Hiccups -- Using detergent on baby's clothes -- All About: Baby development -- Today's slower babies -- What month is it, anyway? -- Chapter 6: Second month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Making the most of those monthly checkups -- Feeding your baby: introducing the bottle -- Bottle-free -- Supplementation myths -- What's in the bottle? -- Winning baby over -- Mix it up -- Making the introduction -- Supplementing when baby isn't thriving -- What you may be wondering about -- Smiling -- Look who's talking -- Cooing -- How do you talk to a baby? -- Baby talk -- Second language -- Understanding your baby -- Making the most of the first three years -- Comparing babies -- Immunization -- Immunization myths -- ABCs of DTaPs and MMrs and IPVs -- Recommended immunization schedule -- When to call the doctor after an immunization -- Cradle cap -- Crooked feet -- Undescended testicles -- Penile adhesion -- Inguinal hernia -- Inverted nipples -- Favoring one breast -- Using a baby carrier or sling -- Challenging baby -- Do you have a challenging baby? -- Baby won't sleep on back -- All About: Stimulating your baby in the early months -- Creating a good environment -- Practical tips for learning and playing -- Location, location, location -- Chapter 7: Third month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: breastfeeding and working -- Breastfeeding and working-making them work for you -- Corporate lactation programs -- What you may be wondering about -- Establishing a regular schedule -- Putting baby to bed --Dueling parenting philosophies -- Waking up for nighttime feedings -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) -- What is SIDS? -- Reducing the risk of SIDS -- Reporting breathing emergencies to your doctor -- Sharing a room with baby -- Sharing a bed -- Still using a pacifier -- Early weaning -- Supplementing with cow's milk -- Longer the better -- Fewer bowel movements -- Diaper rash -- Penis sore -- Spastic movements -- Roughhousing -- Never shake a baby -- Being tied down breastfeeding -- Leaving baby with a sitter -- All About: Right child care for baby -- In-home care -- Baby-sitter checklist -- Nanny in the know -- Is he manny enough for the job? -- Business of hiring a nanny -- Keeping an eye on the sitter -- Group day care -- Your child as a barometer of child care -- Home day care -- Corporate day care -- Safe sleeping -- Babies on the job -- When your child is sick -- Chapter 8: Fourth month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: thinking about solids -- What you may be wondering about -- Rejection of the breast -- Wriggling at changing time -- Propping baby -- Baby's standing -- Baby fussing in infant seat -- Baby unhappy in car seat -- Thumb sucking -- Chubby baby -- Hold the juice -- Thin baby -- How does your baby grow? -- Heart murmur -- Black stool -- Baby massage -- Exercise -- All About: Playthings for baby -- Suitable for cuddling --
Chapter 9: Fifth month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: starting solids -- Good early foods to offer baby -- Opening night-and beyond -- Foods to premiere with -- Not this year, baby -- Expanding baby's repertoire -- First-year diet for beginners -- Who's counting? -- Baby daily dozen -- No honey for your little honey -- Double-duty jars -- What you may be wondering about -- Teething -- Teething chart -- Chronic cough -- Ear pulling -- Naps -- Eczema -- Using a back carrier -- Gratuitous advice -- Starting the cup -- Sippy safety -- Feeding baby safely -- Food allergies -- Feeding chairs -- Walkers -- Feeding chair safety tips -- Reducing walker risks -- Jumpers -- Baby swing -- All About: Environmental hazards and your baby -- Protecting children -- Household pest control -- Lead -- Unsuitable for digging? -- Otherwise contaminated water -- BPA concerns -- Polluted indoor air -- Safer walk on the wild side -- Contaminants in food -- Food hazards in perspective -- Out of the mouths of babes -- Organic foods-growing availability -- Chapter 10: Sixth month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: commercial or home-prepared baby foods -- Commercial baby food -- Food for thought -- Home-prepared baby foods -- Attention do-it-yourselfers -- What you may be wondering about -- Still not sleeping through the night -- It's all in the timing -- What will the neighbors think? -- Sleep sharing -- Early rising -- Turning over during the night -- Bathing in the big tub -- Safe big-bath bathing -- Bottle rejection in a breastfed baby -- Changes in bowel movements -- Brushing baby's teeth -- Baby's first toothbrush -- Baby-bottle mouth -- Weaning to cow's milk -- Salt intake -- Cereal snubbing -- Vegan diet -- No meat? No problem -- Anemia screenings -- Shoes for baby -- All About: Stimulating your older baby -- How do you speak to your baby now? -- Chapter 11: Seventh month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: moving up from strained foods -- What you may be wondering about -- Picking up baby -- Grandparents spoiling baby -- Baby's acting up with you -- Is my baby gifted? -- Not sitting yet -- Biting nipples -- Snacking -- Dinner and a baby -- Grazing -- Teeth coming in crooked -- Tooth stains -- All About: Putting the super in baby -- Chapter 12: Eighth month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: finally-finger foods -- What you may be wondering about -- Baby's first words -- Signing with baby -- Baby's not crawling yet -- Scooting -- Messy house -- Eating off the floor -- Eating dirt-and worse -- Getting dirty -- Erections -- Discovering genitals -- Play yard/playpen use -- Reading to baby -- Left- or right-handedness -- Crib safety now -- Childproofing your home -- All About: Making home safe for baby -- Change your ways -- Change your baby's surroundings -- Poison control -- Safety equipment -- Change your baby -- Red light on greenery -- Chapter 13: Ninth month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: establishing good habits now -- What you may be wondering about -- Feeding baby at the table -- Loss of interest in nursing -- Got milk? Not yet -- Fussy eating habits -- Some cereal with that butternut squash? -- Self-feeding -- Strange stools -- Changes in sleep patterns -- Pulling up -- Flat feet -- Walking too early? -- Slow development -- Fear of strangers -- Security objects -- No teeth -- Still hairless -- All About: Games babies play -- Chapter 14: Tenth month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: when to wean -- What you may be wondering about -- Messy eating habits -- Head banging, rocking, and rolling -- Hair rolling and pulling -- Teeth grinding -- Biting -- Baby social scene -- Blinking -- Breath holding -- Starting classes -- Shoes for walking -- Hair care -- Fears -- All About: Beginning of discipline -- To spank or not to spank -- Chapter 15: Eleventh month -- What your baby may be doing -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: weaning from the bottle -- What you may be wondering about -- Bowed legs -- Parental nudity -- Falls -- Not pulling up yet -- Baby tooth injuries -- Cholesterol in baby's diet -- Growth swings -- All About: Helping baby to talk -- Chapter 16: Twelfth month -- What your baby may be doing -- You know your baby best -- What you can expect at this month's checkup -- Feeding your baby: weaning from the breast -- Weaning from the breast -- Keeping yourself comfortable -- Milk sense -- What you may be wondering about -- First birthday party -- Not yet walking -- Handle with care -- Increased separation anxiety -- Attachment to the bottle -- Don't have a cow -- Putting the weaned baby to bed -- Bedtime separation anxiety -- Shyness -- Social skills -- Sharing -- Hitting -- Forgetting a skill -- Drop in appetite -- Picky eating -- Going nuts? -- Increase in appetite -- Refusing to self-feed -- Growing independence -- Nonverbal language -- Gender differences -- Toddler years continued -- Switching to a bed -- Using a pillow -- Watching TV -- Multimedia for babies -- Hyperactivity -- Negativism -- All About: Stimulating your one-year-old -- Eyes have it already -- Safety reminder --
Part 2: Of Special Concern: -- Chapter 17: Baby for all seasons -- What you may be wondering about in summer weather -- Keeping baby cool -- Summer rash -- Heatstroke -- Too much sun -- What to look for in selecting a sunscreen -- Insect bites -- Summer safety -- Water, baby? -- Water babies -- As the food turns -- What you may be wondering about in winter weather -- Keeping baby warm -- Changeable weather -- Frostbite -- Snow burn -- Keeping baby warm indoors -- Dry skin -- Fireplace fires -- Holiday hazards -- Safe gift giving -- Under wraps -- All About: Season for travel -- Planning ahead -- Just the two of you? -- Packing wisely -- Getting there is half the fun? -- At high altitudes -- At hotels and motels-or other homes away from home -- Having fun -- Chapter 18: When baby is sick -- Before calling the doctor -- Parent's intuition -- How much rest for a sick baby? -- Feeding a sick baby -- When medication is needed -- What you should know about the medication -- Giving medication correctly -- Helping the medicine go down -- Most common infant health problems -- Allergies -- Having a pet is nothing to sneeze at -- Is it an allergy-or just intolerance? -- Cold or allergy? -- Common cold or upper respiratory infection (URI) -- Taking the bite out of the flu bug -- Treating baby's symptoms -- Hand-washing solution -- Frequent cold program -- Sudden cough -- Constipation -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- Diarrhea -- Middle ear inflammation (otitis media) -- Better juice for your sick baby? -- Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) -- Your baby's health history -- Urinary tract infection (UTI) -- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) -- All About: Fever -- Convulsions in a feverish baby -- Taking baby's temperature -- Fever doesn't tell the whole story -- Evaluating a fever -- Before that first fever -- Handling febrile convulsions -- Treating a fever -- Acetaminophen or ibuprofen? -- Chapter 19: First aid do's and don'ts -- Abdominal injuries -- Bites -- Bleeding, internal -- Broken bones or fractures -- Bruises, skin -- Burns and scalds -- Be prepared -- Chemical burns -- Choking -- Convulsions -- Cuts -- Dislocations -- Dog bites -- Drowning (submersion injury) -- Ear injuries -- Electric shock -- Eye injury -- Fainting/loss of consciousness -- Finger and toe injuries -- Treating a young patient -- Frostbite and hypothermia -- Head injuries -- Heat injuries -- Hypothermia -- Insect stings or bites -- Lip, split or cut -- Mouth injuries -- Nose injuries -- Poisoning -- Poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac -- Puncture wounds -- Scrapes -- Severed limb or digit -- Shock -- Skin wounds -- Bandaging a boo-boo -- Splinters or slivers -- Sunburn -- Swallowed foreign objects -- Teeth, injury to -- Toe injuries -- Tongue, injury to -- Resuscitation techniques for babies and children -- When baby is choking -- Unsuspected inhaled object -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR): rescue breathing and chest compression -- Rescue breathing (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation -- Chest compressions (CPR): babies under one year -- Chest compressions (CPR): children over one year -- CPR: the most important class you'll hopefully never need -- Chapter 20: Low-birthweight baby -- Feeding your baby: nutrition for the preterm or low-birthweight infant -- Early weight loss -- Expressing milk for a premature baby -- Feeding at home -- What you may be wondering about -- Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) -- Portrait of a preemie -- Getting optimum care -- Lack of bonding -- Lights out? -- Long hospitalization -- Intrauterine growth restriction -- Siblings -- Breastfeeding -- Handling baby -- Taking baby home -- Permanent problems -- Catching up -- Car seats -- Preemie vaccines -- Guilt -- Home-care tips for preterm babies -- All About: Health problems common in low-birthweight babies -- Rehospitalization -- Chapter 21: Special needs baby -- Feeding your baby: can diet make a difference? -- What you may be wondering about -- Feeding responsible -- Feeling angry -- When the guilt is real -- Not loving the baby -- Working out your feelings -- What to tell others -- Handling it all -- Be a friend in deed -- Getting the right diagnosis -- Just the facts -- Where to go for help -- Whether or not to accept treatment -- Getting the best care and treatment -- Effect of baby on siblings -- Effects on your relationship -- Repeat with the next baby -- Different birth defect next time -- All About: Most common birth disorders -- AIDS/HIV-perinatal -- Anencephaly -- Autism -- Celiac disease -- Cerebral palsy -- Cleft lip and/or palate -- Clubfoot and other foot and ankle deformities -- Congential heart defect -- Cystic Fibrosis (CF) -- Deformation -- Down syndrome -- Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) -- Hydrocephalus -- Malformation -- Pyloric stenosis -- RH disease -- When diagnosis makes all the difference -- Sickle-cell anemia -- Spina bifida (open spine) -- Tay-Sachs disease -- How defects are inherited -- Thalassemia -- Tracheoesophageal fistula -- Chapter 22: Adopted baby -- What you may be wondering about -- Getting ready -- Adoption medicine -- Not feeling like a parent -- Loving the baby -- Baby's crying a lot -- Waiting period -- Postadoption blues -- Breastfeeding an adopted baby -- Grandparents' attitudes -- Unknown health problems -- Dealing with friends and family -- Adoption antibodies -- Telling baby -- Support for the adopting family -- Adoption benefits --
Part 3: For The Family:
Chapter 23: For mom: enjoying the first year
What you should be eating: the postpartum diet
Nine basic diet principles for new mothers
Daily dozen for postpartum and breastfeeding
One-two punch
If you're not breastfeeding
What you may be wondering about
Exhaustion
Newly delivered?
Postpartum depression
Getting help for postpartum depression
Getting everything done
Not being in control
Not feeling competent
When you're on your own
Doing things right
Aches and pains
Return of menstruation
Time to stock up on tampons?
Urinary incontinence
It's Kegel time again
Regaining your figure
Getting back into shape
Stroller exercise
Fitting sex in
Easing back into sex
Slight spotting alert
Stretched vagina
State of your romance
Thinking about the next baby
Planning ahead
Birth control
Hormonal contraceptive warning signs
IUD warning signs
Barrier method warning signs
Basal body temperature
Diagnosing a new pregnancy
Passing germs on to baby
Finding time for yourself
Finding outside interests
Bring baby along
Friendships
Different mothering styles
Jealousy of daddy's parenting skills
Jealousy of daddy's attention to baby
Quality time
Leaving baby with a sitter
All About: Working vs not working
Family-friendly work
When to return to your job
Chapter 24: Becoming a father
What you may be wondering about
Paternity leave
Don't stop here
Stay-at-home father
Spouse's baby blues
Your depression
Mixed feelings
It takes three
Jealousy of mother's attention to baby
Feeling inadequate as a father
Father's touch
Dads matter
Unfair burden?
Gift that lasts a lifetime
Not enough time to spend with baby
Chapter 25: From only child to older child
What you may be wondering about
Preparing an older child
Read all about it
Siblings at the birth
Separation and hospital visits
Easing the homecoming
Resentment
Explaining genital differences
Nursing in front of an older child
Older child who wants to nurse
Helping sibling live with colic
Regressive behavior
Older sibling hurting the new baby
Seeing green?
Dividing time and attention
Widely space sibs
Sibling attachment
Escalating warfare
Part 4: Ready Reference:
Baby's first recipes
Four to eight months
Steamed any-kind-of-vegetable
Stewed any-kind-of-fruit
Six to twelve months
Lentil stew
Baby's first casserole
Eight to twelve months
Tomato and cheese pasta
Baby's first Thanksgiving turkey
Eggy bread
Croque bebe
Banana French toast
Funny fingers
Fruit sundae
Apple-cranberry cubes
Banana-orange gel
Peachy frozen yogurt
Fabulous finger foods
Quick mealtime ideas
First birthday cake
Cream cheese frosting
Common home remedies
Cold compresses
Cold soaks
Cool compresses
Eye soaks
Heating pad
Hot compresses
Hot soaks
Hot-water bottle
Ice pack
Increased fluids
Nasal aspiration
Saltwater irrigation
Steam
Warm compresses
Dosage chart for common infant-fever medication
Common childhood infections
Chart of illnesses
Height and weight charts
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