ISBN: 1637742657 9781637742655

Category: Family & Relationships / Life Stages / Infants & Toddlers

Page count: 336

<b>The most essential, evidence-based advice for baby’s first year in an easily digestible and full-color illustrated format designed for today’s busy parents</b><br><br>Congratulations! You have a new baby. But what you don’t have is a lot of time to comb through the overwhelming amount of information on caring for that baby.<br> <br>In <i>Bite-Sized Parenting</i>, Sharon Mazel, one of America’s most trusted parenting experts, presents the latest, most practical science-backed advice that new moms and dads need most, without judgment and in an engaging visual format.<br> <br><i>Bite-Sized Parenting</i> is designed to make parenting in the first year less complicated and stressful. Its month-by-month format and full-color illustrated infographics—nearly 100 in all—are filled with expert medical, behavioral, nutritional, and developmental details aimed at empowering parents to care for their little ones with calm and confidence.<br> <br>Strapped for time? Spend a few minutes with the bite-sized overviews for targeted advice, tips, and strategies you can use right away. Want to dig deeper and learn more? Read the “A Closer Look” sections for an in-depth dive, with more nuance, guidance, and background on each must-know topic. <br><br>Each month, readers will learn:<br><ul><li>Your baby “by the numbers”: expected ranges for your baby’s sleep times, feeding amounts, weight gain, and more</li></ul><ul><li>Age- and stage-appropriate guidance on feeding and eating, naps and night-time sleep, baby care and playing, and more</li></ul><ul><li>How to tackle common first-year challenges, including soothing a crying baby, recognizing hunger and sleep cues, teething and spitting up, starting solids and gagging, feeding and sleeping challenges, stranger anxiety, and more</li></ul><ul><li>Expert advice for tummy time, reaching motor milestones like rolling over, sitting, and crawling, stimulating baby’s brain, boosting language development, and more</li></ul><ul><li>Support for how <i>you</i> may be feeling in your baby’s first year—with reassurance that you’re not alone</li></ul> <br>The perfect gift (for yourself or someone else), <i>Bite-Sized Parenting</i> offers the key information new parents need, with warmth, support, and encouragement.