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Summary: An Informative book
Review: A word of warning. If you're looking for a well laid out book this one isn't. But it does contain a lot of information. The week by week breakdowns are good. Don't get hung up on the weight for the week or the height. Remember every child is different and unique. Some people get hung up on some of the medical info. Remember always get 3 opinions when it comes to medical advice. As for the developmental items it's great because it gives you a rough idea on when it's coming or should have came.
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Summary: This is the best baby book
Review: As a first time mom who nurses,
I find this book extremely helpful. I
received many other books from friends, but all had very clear
agendas and gave contradictory advice. I got more stressed
trying to reconcile the advise found in "Babywise" with "The Natural Baby", which claimed the other methods would make
my baby obese or fail to thrive! I finally put both
those away and use this one only. This book does not
preach one method over another and gives a good reference for
what to expect from your baby and when. Every few weeks,
my husband and I look through it and see what we should
look for, what we should change in the baby's room (ie. when to
remove the mobile hanging over the crib), and how to
encourage growth and development. There also are helpful
tips throughout the book (ie. when to call the doctor, how to
make your house safe for the baby once he starts
to move around, etc.) For now on, I will get this
book for my friends when they are expecting.
Rating:
Summary: Good for 1st time parents
Review: As a first time parent I find this book helpful in letting me know what to expect and about what time I should be seeing certain developmental achievements in my baby (as well as when to child proof, different baby gear, temperature inside the house--you don't need to keep it warmer than 72!). As with any book (and including literature I receive at my pediatrician's), I use it as a guide to my baby's development and milestones, not the last word on it. I also have other books I cross-reference with to get different perspectives. As for the other reviews regarding criticisms on breast feeding and cloth diapers (I do both), there aren't many books out there that are terribly in favor of either....I have a particular book for breastfeeding on which I rely.
Overall, I think this book presents many choices and options on parenting and development, and is great for game ideas and as a basic guide. If you use it as the "bible" for your child, you will make yourself nuts, because as we all know, children are unique and they grow and develop at their own pace. For first time parents it is quite a helpful book (and you can check all that unsolicited and antiquated advice you get from loving and interested family members). No book is perfect, so have several and make this one of them.
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Summary: Very Disappointing: Avoid This Book!
Review: As others have mentioned this is a superficial book with sketchy information on important topics. The worst content regards circumcision. The authors take the position that it's up to the parents to decide, yet give no information which might help parents make that decision. At the very least they should have offered a brief discussion of the potential risks and complications of performing unnecessary surgery, at best they might have conveyed some of the more current understanding of the erogenous and hygienic benefits of the foreskin, and keeping the baby genitally intact. What is most alarming here is their misinformation on page 4 which reads: "If your son is not circumcised, gently pull back the foreskin of his penis each time you change his diaper. Using warm water and mild baby soap, wash the area thoroughly." THIS IS VERY BAD ADVICE, a child's foreskin should not be retracted prematurely. Doctors who understand the development of the penis educate parents to leave the foreskin alone. There is no need to clean under it before it can retract on it's own. There are so many better baby care books. Jeannine Parvati Baker, Paul Fleiss, Michel Odent, and Rachel Pepper are authors worth checking out.
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Summary: This book is helping my daughter developed her skills
Review: Every friday my 14 weeks old daughter turns a week older. Every friday,she and I sit and read the book and we work on the weak points she having and praise the strong points. This is a awesome book and I started reading it right after delivery in the hospital. My husband surprise with it after our daughter was born due to the fact that I followed the pregnancy week by week each saturday.This is my new favorite baby shower gifts. For first time moms, I recommend it highly.
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Summary: A few criticisms
Review: Generally, I have enjoyed having this week by week book; however, I feel that the placement of information was not well thought out. For instance, the authors discuss pyloric stenosis, a condition requiring surgery, in week 15, but pyloric stenosis almost always shows up and is diagnosed at 3-5 weeks of age. Introducing your baby to the family pet is not covered until a few weeks old; by this time, your baby has been home for awhile. The authors should try to place the information in the relevant weeks.
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Summary: This is the WORST book full of WRONG and TERRIBLE advice!!!
Review: I bought this book because I enjoyed the Pregnancy week by week book. If I wasn't a mother who did research on my baby's development and just read this book, both myself and my baby would be in trouble. This book recommends weaning from breastmilk at 16 weeks (The AAP recommends 1 year), feeding your baby juice(Only if you want to encourage bad habits and cavities), allowing your baby to CIO (which has been proven by developmental psychiatrists to be BAD for babies!) feeding your baby fruit first and not veggies - this book is terrible. I don't see where an OB even has the right to write a book on baby development! These authors should be ashamed of themselves for even publishing this rubbish! Get The Baby Book by Sears instead. This was a BIG waste of [amt]. I would have rather thrown it out the window.
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Summary: This one's gotta go back to the store
Review: I bought this book because, for the most part, I am enjoying "Your Pregnancy Week by Week". I'm due in October 2002 and wanted something to prepare me for what to expect the first few weeks. Well, I haven't even gotten past reading the first week, and I have to take this back to the store PRONTO.Although I am having a girl, I have read up on circumcision for boys and consider myself pretty knowledgeable about what care would be needed for an uncircumcized baby. This book states that you should gently retract the foreskin and wash with soap and water. WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! An uncircumcized penis needs little care other than gentle cleaning and the foreskin should NEVER be retracted at this early age! I'm sorry, but I can't take the rest of this book seriously after reading misinformation in the first few pages.
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Summary: Horrible!
Review: I enjoyed Your Pregnancy Week by Week so much that I thought I couldn't go wrong with this book. I couldn't have been more WRONG! I too (like many of the other raters have expressed) experienced the confusion of trying to match up weeks to months since they don't synch up. I never knew what chapter I should be reading. I was so confused with what my baby should be doing at any particular week or month that I started to convince myself that he was developmentally delayed. Until, that is, I read the other ratings here and even went so far as to ask our Pediatrician - who by the way is also disgusted with this book. I disagree with any book that does not accurately depict milestones. It is very confusing and breaks down the confidence that one has as a mother. I think the publisher should discontinue the printing of this book. Take the advice of the many parents who have rated this book poorly and stay away. Don't buy it!
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Summary: Bad information and a waste of money
Review: I had purchased "Your pregnancy week by week" and read it every week while pregnant. I enjoyed the information in it especially the size of the baby and the changes it told about. I was happy that there was a book that followed the babies first year, so after our daughter was born I purchased it. I wish I hadnt, its a waste of money.
What I know now that I didnt know when I bought it was that pregnancies for the most part follow the same schedule but babies definately do not. While you may feel your baby kick inside you while your pregnant a week ahead or behind the "typical" pregnancy what your baby does is at its own pace and is frustrating to compare it to a book.
I would read this book and skip ahead a bit to see what my baby would be doing in a month or so and really my baby did not do things according to this time frame. It was making me feel as though my baby was behind or I was doing something wrong because she wasnt able to sit by herself at 24 weeks which by this book is what your baby should be doing.
I stopped reading this book about 3 months ago which means I only read it randomly for about 3 months so its a complete waste of money.
I did buy another book by Anne Douglas called "The mother of all baby books". It outlines your babies first year, sleeping, eating, pooping habits. As well as what usually happens at the doctor and so on. I found the information in that book to be very helpful.
This book just really shouldnt exist. Its not fair to compare your baby to anyone elses baby let alone the "super baby" this book is based on.
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