The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition)

Dr. Bill and Martha Sears draw from their vast professional and personal experience to provide autjoritative, comprehensive information on virtually every aspect of infant care. THE BABY BOOK focuses on the essential needs of babies - eating, sleeping, development, health and comfort- as it addresses the questions of greatest concerns to today's parents. The Sears present a practical, contemporary approach to parenting that reflects the way we live today. They offer the basic guidance and inspiration one needs to develop the parenting style that best suits carer and baby.

In their excellent (and hefty) resource guide, The Baby Book, attachment parenting specialists William Sears and Martha Sears have provided new parents with their approach to every aspect of baby care basics, from newborns to toddlers. Attachment parenting is a gentle, reasonable approach to parenting that stresses bonding with your baby, responding to her cues, breastfeeding, "wearing" your baby, and sharing sleep with your child. For those parents who worry about negative effects of this attention, the Sears say, "Spoiling is what happens when you leave something (or some person) alone on the shelf--it spoils."