Dr. Spock's The First Two Years
Description
This first-time collection of essays brings together Dr. Spock's insightful writings on connecting with your child's inner life during the all-important early years. Dr. Spock's The First Two Years covers such topics as:
- understanding your baby's different cries
- helping your little one cope with separation anxiety
- communicating with your baby
- teaching your child about giving and sharing
- the easiest way ever to toilet-train
- dealing with the impact a newborn can have on siblings
- treating the most common ailments
With Dr. Spock's The First Two Years, new parents everywhere will return again and again to Dr. Spock for all of their child-rearing questions.
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Introduction
1. Communicating with Your Baby: Reading Your Baby's Cues
Crying: An Early Form of Communication with Parents
Baby Colic
Periodic Irritable Baby
Fretful Baby
Cries of Hunger
Hypertonic Baby
Crying Associated with Diaper Rash and Teething
Responding to Your Baby's Cry: A Few Specific Suggestions
Is the Baby Sick?
Sucking
Reaching Out
Kicking Legs
Grunting
High-pitched Squealing
The Parent's Response
Happy to Crying
Enjoy Your Baby
2. Parents' Biggest Newborn Concerns
Umbilical Stump
Floppy Head
SIDS
Exposure to Germs
Breast-feeding
Swelling of Babies' Heads
Breathing Patterns
Soft Spot
Playing Too Vigorously
Spitting Up
Jaundice
3. Choosing a Doctor for Your Baby
4. The Arrival of the New Baby
Feeding and Behavior
Breast-feeding
Formula feeding
Preparing for the New Baby
Preparing Sibling for the New Baby
Preparing the Parents for the New Baby
Arranging Help for Mom
If I Have a Baby Boy, Should He Be Circumcised?
5. How Much Regularity to Infant Feeding?
When a Mother Thinks About Going Back to Work
6. Beginning Solids
Which Solids, in What Order?
7. Poor Eaters
8. Common Physical Problems
Teething
Sneezing, Coughing, and Dripping...the Common Cold
Ear Infections
9. Stranger Anxiety
10. Transitional Objects
Thumb-sucking
11. Sleep Problems
Newborns
Six to Sixteen Months: Demanding and Walking
Naps: Six Months to Two Years
Co-sleeping: Children Sleeping in the Parents' Bed
Bedtime Rituals
Bottle in the Bed: Age Six to Twenty-four Months
Separation Anxiety: Six Months to Six Years
12. Toilet Training
13. Discipline and Temper Tantrums: An Opportunity for ParentChild Communication and Learning
Anger and Temper Tantrums
Physical Punishment
Humiliation, Shame, and Guilt
14. Can You Spoil a Child?
Index
