Heading Home With Your Newborn
--from birth to reality
This book is written by two women who are pediatricians and moms. They have listened to thousands of new moms, seen thousands of newborns, learned all the latest in pediatrics, and have a wealth of experience with their own children.
The book is written in a simple, straightforward style with short chapters and important ideas highlighted. It uses bubbles to encircle valuable tips and warnings. Heading Home With Your Newborn is especially valuable in preparing parents for the first four months of their baby’s life.
In major sections of the book, Laura Jana and Jennifer Shu cover:
- The Mouths of Babes (breastfeeding and formula feeding)
- What Goes In Must Come Out (peeing, poop happens, spitting up, burping, gas, and vomiting)
- Daily Living (sleeping, crying, diapering, bathing, clothing)
- Outside The House (dressing, car safety, flying)
- General Health (finding the right doctor, your baby’s body, fevers, jaundice)
The authors don’t neglect the human side of parenthood either. They encourage moms to have a picture of their newborn taken on the delivery room scale, to dry and preserve flowers they receive, to make a shadow box with baby memorabilia, and to record their baby’s hand and foot prints.
Laura Jana and Jennifer Shu offer sound advice, tempered with the knowledge that things don’t always happen according to the book. They are both medical doctors, Fellows of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and mothers. The book is published by the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics).
From Heading Home With Your Newborn:
--“In fact, what we discovered was that new parents were reading ‘all of the baby books’ and were still left with questions about the realities of caring for their newborns. It was then that we decided that there was room for at least one more parenting book on the shelf, and we set to work creating a book that would specifically focus on the first few weeks of parenthood.”
