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    Gentle Baby Care: No-Cry, No-Fuss, No-Worry--Essential Tips for Raising Your Baby by Elizabeth Pantley, Harvey Karp, Harvey Karp (Foreword by)

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    • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
    • Pub. Date: September 2003
    • ISBN-13: 9780071398855
    • Sales Rank: 58,554
    • 640pp
    • Series: Pantley Series
    • Edition Description: First Edition
    • Edition Number: 1
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    Synopsis

    From the bestselling author of The No-Cry Sleep Solution comes a complete reference filled with loving solutions for caring for your new baby

    It's often been said that babies should come with an owner's manual. Now, Gentle Baby Care fills that need for the millions of parents immersed in the most hands-on experience of their lives: caring for their newborn babies.

    Organized alphabetically to help you find much-needed information within seconds, Gentle Baby Care provides immediate answers to the questions that arise daily when caring for a baby during the first year, from soothing a fussy baby to handling well-meaning yet unwanted advice with grace. Written by bestselling author and parenting expert Elizabeth Pantley, Gently Baby Care will help you become a confident, caring parent. Here you'll find hundreds of practical tips and solutions that allow you to choose the gentle, loving approach that best suits your parenting style and your baby.

    Gentle Baby Care includes:
    • Tips to help get your reluctant napper to sleep
    • Ways to make your baby more comfortable during illness
    • Guidelines to help you choose diapers, bags, strollers, and car seats
    • The golden rules of babyproofing
    • Advice on how to handle breastfeeding in public
    • And so much more!

    Whether this is your first baby or your fourth, Gentle Baby Care provides confidence-building advice to help you get through the many firsts in this tiring yet wonderfully exhilarating first year.

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    Biography

    Elizabeth Pantley is a parent educator and president of Better Beginnings, Inc., a family resource and education company. She is frequently quoted as a parenting expert in such magazines as Parents, Parenting, Working Mother, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping, and Redbook.

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    Gentle Baby Care: No-Cry, No-Fuss, No-Worry--Essential Tips for Raising Your Babyby Anonymous

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    October 04, 2003: Gentle Baby Care gives information on hundreds of topics. Each topic begins with a question, this is followed by general information in a ?Learn About It? section, which is generally brief and concise. This is followed with more specific solutions, checklists, charts and such. And finishes with a list of websites and books as additional resources. An example is the entry on ?Colic?. It begins, ?My baby is very fussy and cries a lot, mostly at the end of the day. Does she have colic?? The Learn About It area defines colic and describes the known causes. This is followed by ?Can Colic Be Prevented?? which explains health issues that can cause crying, and also tells what is known about colic prevention. The next part ?Things That May Help Your Baby? gives a long bullet list of many ideas that may help your baby feel better and stop crying. As is typical in the book, there is yet another section called, ?Tips for Coping? which gives tips on how YOU can handle this difficult time. Next comes, ?When Should I Call the Doctor?? with a bullet list to guide you on when you should be concerned. The last section, ?For More Information? guides you to several books on the subject, if you want to get into more detail. The layout of this book allows for a quick yet thorough examination on topics that may arise during the first two years such as Bathing, Burping, Car Seat Crying, Constipation, Diaper changing (tips, choosing diapers, and what to do when your baby doesn?t want to be changed), Fever, Food allergies, Grandparents (both overzealous and reluctant), Immunizations, Massage, Milestones, Sleep (fabulous sections on this topic!), Travel, Visiting, Weaning. These are just a few examples. I highly recommend this book as one to keep handy for the first two years.

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    October 03, 2003: I love this book. The advice is practical and seems to speak to 'real' parents of 'real' babies -- and has about it a gentleness and true regard for both. As far as the a-z format, it works for me much better than one based on chronological development, because so many of the topics covered span different time periods with different babies. If you've read any of Dr. Sears' books, they complement each other very well. In another recent book of hers I read ('No Cry Sleep Solution'), Pantley writes, 'Dr. Sears is my parenting hero.' A parent who's interested in informing her- or himself would do well to buy books by both authors. Each author serves to illuminate the message of the other...i.e., different words, similarly great approach. This book is chock full of helpful tidbits. You won't regret reading it.


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