Sharon Mazel Livres

The most essential, evidence-based advice for baby's first year in an easily digestible and full-colour illustrated format designed for today's busy parents.

The internationally acclaimed What to Expect brand introduces a new essential guide for parents: a sequel that begins at baby’s first birthday and navigates through a year filled with memorable milestones. This "wonder year" encompasses everything from first steps and words to scribbles and friendships, alongside the rapid learning and exploration driven by a toddler's insatiable curiosity. However, this year also presents challenges for both toddlers and their parents, including picky eating, negativity, separation anxiety, bedtime struggles, biting, and tantrums. Comprehensive and empathetic, this guide offers practical solutions, strategies, and motivational support to help parents understand and cope with the complexities of their evolving child. It covers essential topics in an easy-to-access format, including growth, feeding, sleeping, behaviors, discipline, and health and safety concerns as toddlers explore the world. A developmental timeline for the second year and special milestone boxes assist parents in tracking their child's progress. Additionally, there's a chapter dedicated to traveling with a toddler, ensuring parents are well-prepared for adventures with their little ones.

Describes each stage of child development, answers questions about child care, and includes information on common childhood ailments.

Cuts through the confusion surrounding pregnancy and birth by debunking dozens of myths that mislead parents, offering explanations of medical terms, and covering a variety of issues including prenatal care, birth defects, and amniocentesis.

Overflowing with intelligence and good common sense, this comprehensive guide provides clear explanations and useful guidelines on everything a parent might want to know about the second and third years of their child's life. On a month-by-month basis, WHAT TO EXPECT THE TODDLER YEARS explains what a toddler will be able to do at that age, and what to expect in the months ahead. Featuring topics from potty-training to sleeping problems, disciplining to how to encourage learning and thinking, this book covers it all - including invaluable advice on how parents can make time for themselves in the midst of it all. Answering parents questions such as 'How can I get my toddler talking?' and 'My toddler is a fussy eater - how can I be sure he's eating what he should?', WHAT TO EXPECT THE TODDLER YEARS is an essential guide to keeping a toddler safe, healthy and - above all - happy.

For live-in nannies, Saturday night sitters, and everyone who cares for kids. Answers to the questions sitters ask most: The parents want me to pick up their newborn every time he cries—won’t that spoil him? A child who comes over for play dates always makes a terrible mess and never helps to clean up. What can I do? The girl I baby-sit for tripped and got a bump on her head. What’s the best way to tell the parents? I take care of a six-month-old and a three-year-old with completely different sleeping patterns. How do I juggle naptimes? Packed with information and insight, the What to Expect Baby-Sitter’s Handbook covers all the basics and so much more. How to keep a child safe and what to do in an emergency. The top five reasons babies cry, and eleven surefire ways to calm them down. Taming temper tantrums and tempting the finicky eater. How to talk to a baby and how to get a toddler talking. Bathing, potty training, sibling disputes, time-outs—and how to make the family-sitter relationship a happy one. Plus, a special fill-in section where parents can write down what they think is important for sitters to know about their kids.

With over 7 million copies sold worldwide, WHAT TO EXPECT THE 1st YEAR is one of the world's bestselling books on infant care - and it has now been updated and revised throughout by Heidi Murkoff. This comprehensive and practical month-by-month guide clearly explains everything parents need to know - or might be worrying about - in the first year with a new baby. The book covers monthly growth and development, feeding for every age and stage, and sleep strategies that really work. It is filled with the most practical tips (how to give a bath, decode your baby's crying, what to buy for baby, and when to return to work) and the most up-to-date medical advice (the latest on vaccines, vitamins, illnesses, SIDS, safety, and more). Featuring dozens of Q&A sections, as well as a first-aid guide and charts on monthly growth and development, feeding and sleeping habits, this is the only book on infant care to address both the physical and the emotional needs of the whole family. Covering the most up-to-date knowledge, both medical and developmental, WHAT TO EXPECT THE 1st YEAR is, above all, down-to-earth and reassuring - and an invaluable aid for all parents of new babies.About the AuthorHeidi Murkoff is the co-author of the best-selling series that began with What to Expect When You're Expecting. She has appeared as a parenting expert on national TV, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Today, Good Morning America and 20/20. Murkoff has no medical training.

<b>What to expect. . . the first step. Answers to all your baby-making questions.</b> Are there ways to improve our chances of having a girl (or boy)? Does stress affect fertility? Should we be having sex every day? Every other day? Three times a day? I’m 37. Does that mean I’ll have a harder time getting pregnant? How long should we keep trying to conceive before we get some help? What fertility treatments are available—and how will we be able to pay for them? Expecting to expect? Plan ahead. Here’s everything you need to know to help prepare for the healthiest possible pregnancy and the healthiest possible baby. Filled with practical tips, empathetic advice, and savvy strategies, all designed to help you get that baby of your dreams on board faster. How to get your body into the best baby-making shape. Which foods feed fertility. Which lifestyle habits to quit and which to cultivate. All about baby-making sex, from timing to positions to logistics—and how to keep it sexy. Figuring out your fertility (and his). When to seek fertility help, and the latest on tests, treatments, and reproductive technology. Expecting to become a dad? This book has you covered, too. Plus, all about the family-building options for single women and same-sex couples.

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