Raising Today's Baby: Second Edition: A complete guide for parenting infants birth through one year. This item is unavailable.Raising Today's Baby: Second Edition: A complete guide for parenting infants birth through one year

Once upon a time, multiple generations of the same family lived under one roof, providing new parents with an (over) abundance of parenting advice. Today, new moms and dads arrive home in a cloud of exhaustion and chaos, often unsure of which blog’s advice to follow or where to get answers. Author Dr. Melanie J. Wilhelm DNP, CPNP combines years of professional practice and plenty of personal experience to provide a concise, practical, and incredibly helpful guide for bringing a happy, healthy baby through the first year of life with the latest updates in this second edition. No matter how much you plan and prepare, the birth of a new baby causes plenty of stress, chaos, and exhaustion. Between trying to keep up with the demands of the baby’s schedule, household chores, and your own personal needs, there’s little time left to find answers to your questions about how to raise your little one. Thankfully, Dr. Melanie J Wilhelm DNP, CPNP offers a practical, engaging, and evidence-based guide to child rearing. Combining her extensive education and years of professional practice with the lessons she learned from raising her own two children, Dr. Wilhelm provides straightforward answers to the most common questions plaguing new parents today, while sharing her experiences as a mom. Don’t let the stress and exhaustion of caring for an infant paralyze you and prevent you from making sound decisions. Instead, find science-based answers that have been fact-checked by pediatricians and proven to work for families of all types. Free of jargon, platitudes, and conspiracies, Raising Today’s Baby answers questions about feeding, diaper duty, sleep, crying, bathing and skin care, medical care, finding balance, work options….and everything else you need to know for a baby’s first year. Dr. Wilhelm is a Doctor of Nursing Practice, and a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at a pediatric practice in Norfolk, Virginia. She also serves as an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University. She is the CEO of Raising Today’s Child, LLC and blogs on all things parenting at www.RaisingTodaysChild.com. Follow her at Twitter.com/Rzn2dayschild and Facebook.com/RaisingTodaysChild.

Dr. Melanie J. Wilhelm is a Doctor of Nursing Practice and as well as a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at a pediatric practice in Norfolk, VA. She also serves as Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University. She obtained a Bachelors of Science Degree with honors from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. She completed a Masters in Science with honors at Old Dominion University, and obtained Certification as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. She completed the Doctor of Nursing Practice at Old Dominion University with a research focus on pediatric obesity related to nutrition counseling. Her first book, Raising Today’s Baby, was released in 2015, on Amazon. Raising Today’s Baby, second edition, released in 2018 including the latest updates. Look for Raising Today’s Toddler scheduled to release soon. Dr. Wilhelm writes a monthly parenting column for the Tidewater Family Magazine. She has published several parenting articles in the national parenting magazine Ready, Set, Grow. She received the 1990 Teacher of the Year Award for the Southern Association of Colleges and in 1995 she was enlisted into Who’s Who Among American Nurses. Her poster on Pediatric Obesity related to Nutrition Counseling was accepted at the National Institute of Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) annual conference in 2010. Her research study was published in the Infant, Child, and Adolescent Nutrition Journal in October 2012. She belongs to the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and served as President of the local Hampton Roads Chapter in 2007. She is a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is a member of St Stephen Martyr Catholic Church. She is married and has two adult children. She enjoys travel, fashion, and decorating. She enjoys writing and speaking nationally. Follow her on Facebook.com/RaisingTodaysChild and Twitter.com/Rzn2dayschild. Read more at RaisingTodaysChild.com.