Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 (Child Care Books from the American Academy of Pediatrics) - Hardcover

A comprehensive guide for parents discusses the basics of infant and child care, including nutrition, hygiene, health, and stages of development, and provides a medical reference section covering injuries and diseases

he contributions and practical wisdom  of more than seventy pediatric specialists and a  six-member AAP review board, this invaluable book  provides sound, reassuring advice on child  rearing, plus the latest scientific information you need  to know to safeguard your child's most precious  asset: his or her  health.

Caring for Your Baby and Child is  actually two volumes in one. The first half offers a  comprehensive parenting manual. Written in a warm  accessible style and illustrated with more than  300 helpful drawings, the manual covers a wide  range of topics, from preparing for childbirth and  choosing a pediatrician to bonding and basic child  care, and just about every other concern or  question that parents have.

Detailed,  accurate, and up-to-date, Caring for  Your Baby and Child&