Heading Home with Your Newborn

Overview

This fully updated guide offers "parent-tested, pediatrician-approved" advice for new parents finding themselves overwhelmed with the reality of caring for a baby in the first eight weeks of its life. The second edition features a wealth of new information on topics such as vaccines, child care providers, babies and learning, car seats, safe sleep, cord blood, what to keep in the medicine cabinet, postpartum depression, and organic formulas. With wit and humor, the pediatrician moms allay the feelings of anxiety, guilt, and inadequacy that inevitably plague first-time parents home alone with a newborn, providing authoritative yet compassionate advice for the sleep-deprived and overwhelmed. From "Going with the Flow" (the trials of breastfeeding) and "What Goes in Must Come Out" (a discussion of "pee and poop") to "Fever: Trial by Fire" and "Seeing Yellow: Jaundice," this handbook provides solid, practical, balanced guidance that will enable parents to feel confident about their parenting skills.

Reviews

"This book packs the advice of a parenting class, a doctor’s visit, and a best friend into one indispensable package." —Library Journal, on the first edition

"The authors do an outstanding job of handling the basics, and this remains one of the best bringing-baby-home books in print." —Library Journal-Book Smack

"In an era of one-size-fits-all parenting advice, this book truly stands out." —Armin Brott, author, The Expectant Father series, on the first edition

"Its spirited, light, and conversational tone makes readers feel like they are talking to a trusted good friend who just happens to be a pediatrician." —John C. Nelson, MD, MPH, obstetrician-gynecologist, past president, American Medical Association, on the first edition

"A family-friendly, easily read…guide to the unique experience of caring for a newborn that is both practical and medically sound." —Lillian Blackmon, MD former chair, AAP Committee on Fetus and Newborn

"The advice you’d get from your sister or best friend, if she had her baby only last year." —Gil Fuld, MD AAP, News Editorial Advisory Board

"This book will lower your stress about raising your child. It is a wonderful narrative that reads as if it was a conversation among friends. You can have a shared learning experience with the authors who are moms, docs, and daughters and really do know." —George A. Strait, former medical correspondent, ABC News

Author Biography

Laura A. Jana, MD, FAAP, is a pediatrician and national health communicator who has appeared on ABC and Fox News, NPR’s The Parent Journal, the Nancy Grace Show, and the Today Show. She is a founder of Primrose School of Legacy, an educational child care center, and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Executive Committee for Early Education. She is an expert on Dr. Nancy Snyderman’s www.BeWell.com social network, an early literacy advocate for Reach Out and Read, and a cofounder of Amazing Me Books and the Dr. Spock Company. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Jennifer Shu, MD, FAAP, is a pediatrician, the editor in chief of Baby and Child Health, and a medical editor for www.HealthyChildren.org. She has been featured as a medical expert on numerous national and local television and radio shows such as the Kids Healthworks series on the Discovery Channel, and in parenting magazines, newspapers, and medical publications. She is a former national chairperson of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Young Physicians and the American Medical Association Young Physicians Section. She lives Atlanta, Georgia. They are the coauthors of Food Fights.