Playskool Guide to Babys First Year: Essential Information Practical Advice and Key Choices for Your Baby's First 12 Months

The information-packed, practical guide to your baby's wonderful first year

Your baby's first year is filled with new experiences and important choices. Written by M.D. (and father of four) Jamie Loehr and teacher, education writer (and mother of two) Jen Meyers, The Playskool Guide to Baby's First Year provides essential information and expert advice to help you prepare for baby's arrival and make the right choices for you and your baby.

--Customizing the birth plan that's right for you
--A month-by-month guide to baby's development
--How to pick a doctor for your baby (including sample interview questions)
--Breastfeeding or formula? How to help baby develop healthy eating habits
--Co-sleeping or crib sleeping? To vaccinate or not? And other important choices
--Bringing home baby: the first few weeks
--The well-child visits for the first year, including all the developmental milestones
--Strategies for soothing a crying baby
--Encouraging peaceful sleep
--Playing together and helping baby learn

From together time to baby baths, from knowing what to expect to monitoring baby's development, The Playskool Guide to Baby's First Year answers the questions and addresses the concerns every mom and dad may have.

Essential information, practical advice and key choices for your baby's first 12 months.

Jamie Loehr, M.D., has practiced as a family physician in Rochester and Ithaca, New York, for the past 16 years. While providing a wide range of care, his first loves remain pediatrics and obstetrics. In this way he ends up caring for babies from the first prenatal visit through birth, infancy, toddlerhood and on up. His focus is on caring for the whole family, helping to guide new parents through the ups and downs of those first years, offering up his own experiences as a father when advice is sought. His family practice, in partnership with another physician, is very much in demand in Ithaca, New York.
He is the father of four young children, ages ranging from two to ten.

Jennifer Meyers has worked as a writer for educational texts for over 12 years. In 1996, she entered a masters-in-education program at the University of Vermont, and received her teaching license in secondary education in English. Jen works from home to be able to raise her two children, ages four and two, and is expecting her third child this year. After years of reading, learning, contemplating, discussing, observing and putting parenting ideas to the test 24/7/365, she has strong opinions based on science and experience, and a passion for spreading the word.