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Summary: Wonderfully updated for the 21st century
Review: This new edition has been thoughtfully updated by Dr. Spock and his collaborator. The information is time-tested and always sensitive to the child's emotional well-being. This book seems as helpful and relevant today as it was 50 years ago. Fads come and go; Dr. Spock's advice is timeless.
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Summary: This was "Americas Pediatrician"?!
Review: I almost gave no star to this book. However, it does give sound nutritional advice, and Dr. Spock went out on a limb to state "there's no solid medical evidence to support routine circumcision". He also states the obvious, that breastfeeding is best. For those things I give him a star. As for the rest of the book, I might reccomend certain common sense chapters on safety and hygene to teenage parents but the rest is dangerously out of date. That parents of today are still buying a book that advocates letting a child cry "it" out, and suggests that it is possible to "spoil" an INFANT by giving it attention and affection is disturbing. This book was given to me by a relative who's parenting style is downright abusive and she swears by it. I wholeheartedly reccomend THE BABY BOOK by Dr. William Sears and Martha Sears RN over this one any day.
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Summary: The Best Baby Book EVER!!
Review: My sister gave me a copy of Dr. Spock's Baby and Child care in 1986 when I was pregnant with my first child. Three children later, my edition is dog-eared and falling apart!! It was such a great reference book for all kinds of situations--from colic to potty-training to whether or not they should attend daycare to how to help children through divorce.I have given and will continue to give this to every pregnant woman I know. Dr. Spock's book is truly a blessing.
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Summary: A Must Have in the Collection
Review: This is a classic book and it's been updated to include lots of new issues as well. I probably would also buy another of the more recent books to come out such as Penelope Leach's Birth to Age Five to go with it. Both of those books together can ease a parent's mind. Spock's on target with the medical questions and Leach is helpful with the emotional issues. All things ocnsidered Spock's is still a timeless classic.
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Summary: One word - AWESOME!`
Review: As a new father, this book has been nothing short of a godsend for my wife and I. everything we have looked up has been right on the money, from colds to teething and sleeplessness. This is a must have for any parent's bookshelf. I must completely disagree with FARR's comments about this book - it appears that he/she considers themselves the absolute authority on raising children. Good parenting COMBINES elements of this book with the individual's own mores and values. Political grandstanding aside, it appears that FARR's comments appear as nothing more than disgruntled jealousy of an author whose book has accompanied millions of families through childhood and into the next generation. And as far as "timely demise"? Well - that was just tasteless!
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Summary: Wish the diet advice was included when our kids were young.
Review: Excellent, I just wish the new dietary advice was available when our children were younger. I plan on giving this book as a gift at all future baby showers.
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Summary: A good basic resource to be combined with others
Review: Spock always has a good basic resource, but I found it useful to combine it with another book that is very contemporary. "Our Baby: The First Year" covers the first year of life in a comprehensive way. There is a chapter on nursing which is written by an authority and gives practical solutions to problems. The book values both parents in parenting--something that is lacking in many of today's books. I recommend this book with Spock.
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Summary: Great nutritional advice!
Review: Dr. Spock gave a stunning lesson in nutrition and childcare. It is provides an essential lesson in the dangers of milk. Any parent should know this basic concept that children, and for that matter, adults, should not drink milk because of the health risks it poses.
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Summary: Spock has answers, but which ones are correct?
Review: When I became a mother, I was recommended this book by friends who had travelled this path before. Naturally, I decided I had to have it, because I was told that solutions to most of my problems could be found in it. When I finally did possess it, when my baby was about a month old, I realised that I had started on the wrong foot. So I backtracked, and tried to follow Spock's advice. Some answers seemed to work, others didn't. The book makes for terrific reading -- but more as a work of fiction. I soon figured out that most of Spock's words of wisdom simply did not hold true. Especially how to ease the baby into a feeding schedule--my daughter's a year old now and she still doesn't have one! On how to move painlessly from liquids to solids -- I tried every method in the book, but the transition was a nightmare which will haunt me until the end. On getting the baby to sleep in a separate room -- she still sleeps with me. And somewhere around the sixth month, I just stopp! ed reading Spock. It was much easier to take each day as it came, and use my own intuition. And once I stopped depending on the book and the obsession to do it Spock's way, parenting became much easier. The book is now gathering dust on my shelf. I do refer to it once in a while -- the section on illnesses is quite good -- but I wouldn't recommend it to any new mother. It's best to trust one's own judgement. You might make mistakes, but you'll learn from them -- and faster.
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Summary: Simply best book about baby care
Review: When I ask the people in Ukraine about books of baby-caring, I take many answers, but in all answers -Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care : A Handbook for Parents of the Developing Child from Birth Through Adolescence
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