Dr. Spock's the First Two Years: the Emotional and Physical Needs of Children from Birth to Age 2 0743411226, 9780743431040, 9780743411226, 0743431049

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Dr. Spock's the First Two Years: the Emotional and Physical Needs of Children from Birth to Age 2
 0743411226, 9780743431040, 9780743411226, 0743431049

Table of contents :
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
1. Communicating with Your Baby: Reading Your Baby's Cues
Crying: An Early Form of Communication with Parents
Baby Colic
Periodic Irritable Baby
Fretful Baby
Cries of Hunger
Hypertonic Baby
Crying Associated with Diaper Rash and Teething
Responding to Your Baby's Cry: A Few Specific Suggestions
Is the Baby Sick?
Sucking
Reaching Out
Kicking Legs
Grunting
High-pitched Squealing
The Parent's Response
Happy to Crying
Enjoy Your Baby
2. Parents' Biggest Newborn Concerns
Umbilical Stump Floppy HeadSIDS
Exposure to Germs
Breast-feeding
Swelling of Babies' Heads
Breathing Patterns
Soft Spot
Playing Too Vigorously
Spitting Up
Jaundice
3. Choosing a Doctor for Your Baby
4. The Arrival of the New Baby
Feeding and Behavior
Breast-feeding
Formula feeding
Preparing for the New Baby
Preparing Sibling for the New Baby
Preparing the Parents for the New Baby
Arranging Help for Mom
If I Have a Baby Boy, Should He Be Circumcised?
5. How Much Regularity to Infant Feeding?
When a Mother Thinks About Going Back to Work
6. Beginning Solids
Which Solids, in What Order? 7. Poor Eaters8. Common Physical Problems
Teething
Sneezing, Coughing, and Dripping ... the Common Cold
Ear Infections
9. Stranger Anxiety
10. Transitional Objects
Thumb-sucking
11. Sleep Problems
Newborns
Six to Sixteen Months: Demanding and Walking
Naps: Six Months to Two Years
Co-sleeping: Children Sleeping in the Parents' Bed
Bedtime Rituals
Bottle in the Bed: Age Six to Twenty-four Months
Separation Anxiety: Six Months to Six Years
12. Toilet Training
13. Discipline and Temper Tantrums: An Opportunity for Parent-Child Communication and Learning
Anger and Temper Tantrums Physical PunishmentHumiliation, Shame, and Guilt
14. Can You Spoil a Child?
Index
Look For The Companion Volume
About The Author

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