Your Baby's First Year

by American Academy of Pediatrics American Academy of Pediatrics, MD Altmann (Editor)

Overview

"Your Baby's First Year, now fully revised and updated, provides authoritative advice on every aspect of newborn and infant care, includingGuidelines for prenatal and newborn care, including screening tests during pregnancyMilestones for physical, emotional, social, and cognitive growth, as well as visual, hearing, language, and movement milestonesCutting-edge research on early brain development and how babies and young children thinkA complete health encyclopedia covering injuries, illnesses, and congenital diseasesAn in-depth discussion on breastfeeding, including its benefits, techniques, and challengesRevised nutrition recommendations, including the importance of early introduction of allergenic foods, and obesity prevention tipsTips for choosing child care programsUpdated safety standards including CPR instruction, safe sleep, childproofing tips, car safety seats, and toy safetySafety checks for home, including bathing, preventing drowning, poisoning, choking, burns, and falls

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610024792
Publisher:	American Academy of Pediatrics
Publication date:	09/22/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	816
Sales rank:	917,806
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 67,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. The AAP is the largest pediatric publisher in the world, with a diverse list of resources that includes essential clinical and practice management titles and award-winning books for parents Tanya Altmann, MD, FAAP, is a practicing pediatrician who founded Calabasas Pediatrics and is an assistant clinical professor at Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA. She is also an American Academy of Pediatrics spokesperson and sits on the Editorial Advisory Board for Sharecare. Dr. Tanya is the author of Baby and Toddler Basics and the editor in chief of Caring for Your Baby and Young Child. She lives in Calabasas, CA with her husband and 3 sons.