When your baby is unhappy, you're unhappy. Learn the experts' secrets to soothing your fussy little one, for happier days and more restful nights! Whether your baby is colicky, fussy, or just plain cranky, the proven techniques in The CALM Baby Method will help you both feel better. With decades of expertise as a pediatric occupational therapist and a pediatric gastroenterologist, Patti Ideran and Dr. Mark Fishbein have helped thousands of parents...

Infants' brains are actively developing with everything they experience. Examine how newborns fit into the sensorimotor stage - tracing cognitive development from simple reflexes to beginnings of thought. Explore infant intelligence, information processing and memory. See the progression of infant communication from crying - to giggling - to euphoric babbling and their first words! Understand how language is learned and how caregivers can use infant-directed...

"Shaped by Love details developmental phases from infancy through toddlerhood and offers information and beautiful images that encourage healthy and nurturing childcare. A book mothers and babies can enjoy together and an indispensable parenting guidebook, filled with advice based on the most current scientific research."--Back cover.

“Sarah DiGregorio delves deeply into the fraught world of premature birth. With bracing honesty, she recounts her own story and the stories of other women who draw on the power of love and meld it with cutting-edge science, as they struggle to save the lives of their newborns. This book opens our minds and hearts to a world that is rarely seen with such clarity.”—Jerome Groopman, MD, Recanati Professor at Harvard Medical School

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The trip from the womb to the world is the longest, most traumatic journey a human will ever take. One result is to send newborns into months of what is much like severe jet lag. Their first sleeping patterns are nearly random. They need to learn night from day and adjust sleep patterns to fit their new world. This dance of adjustment - of children to the world and parents to children - is what Go to bed! is all about. (Learning Seed, USA).

The development of a secure attachment relationship is a cruicial part of early development. Through careful observation of early relationships all other areas of development are observed as well. This film shows baby Orson as he develops through his first twelve months. Starting with a sequence filmed just after birth, there is a sequence for every month of this first year and sometimes more than one. The sequences all involve interactions with others...

"The authors, thanks to their experience, embodied in this work, and with the help of original illustrations and simple explanations, will help you communicate in a fun, effective and early way with your children, before they can speak"--

"The authoritative guide to feeding babies and toddlers "responsively"-the no-fuss method that follows your child's cues and sets the stage for healthy eating"--

Presents a guide for new parents on properly caring for an infant, from pregnancy to its first year, and includes tips on feeding, sleeping, and crying, as well as providing new insights to infants' neurological development.