Babies and Toddlers

Birth to Three Months
BabyTalk : Strengthen Your Child's Ability to Listen, Understand, and Communicate
by Sally Ward Ph.D.
The newborn baby arrives totally helpless and dependent, but nonetheless amazingly well equipped in a number of ways to interact with the adults around him. He shows an emotional inclination toward people from the very start of life and soon engages them

Nature or Nurture? It's All in the Brain
What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
by Lise Eliot, Ph.D.
Wouldn't you know it? Just as I get this beautiful, healthy neuron filled with dye and ready to image, Julia wakes up and starts crying. The experiment takes a long time to set up; I've been at it most of the day and need just ten more uninterrupted

Crying: Our Babies' Ancient Survival Tool
The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
by Harvey Karp, M.D.
Main points: The Crying Reflex: Your baby's brilliant attention-getting tool. How a baby's crying can make a parent feel. Do different baby cries have different meanings? Some babies scream even for little problems.

Some Thoughts on Being Pregnant
Operating Instructions : A Journal of My Son's First Year
by Anne Lamott
It's not like she's the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all

Communicating with Your Baby
Dr. Spock's The First Two Years : The Emotional and Physical Needs of Children from Birth to Age 2
by Benjamin Spock, M.D.
Babies can express their feelings and needs in many ways. Learning to read your baby is very important, especially for parents who want to respond to their baby's needs appropriately. Crying is a major source of communication that the newborn baby has.

Move Over, Mrs. Cleaver!
Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth About the First Year of Mommyhood
by Jenny McCarthy
In Baby Laughs Jenny McCarthy examines, with riotous candor, the full range of challenges that new mothers face, including: The humiliations of postnatal 'numbing spray,' Tucks medicated pads, and adult diapers; bleeding 'udders,' jelly belly, balding

Loving the Toddler You Have
Secrets of the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers
by Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau
It is a wise father that knows his own child. -William Shakespeare. In the course of writing this second book, my coauthor and I held a class reunion for some of the babies who had attended my groups. Infants between one and four months old when we last

Nature's Contribution: The Biology of Emotions
Baby Hearts: A Guide to Giving Your Child an Emotional Head Start
by Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.
NEWS FLASH! There's More to Mothering Than Meets the Eye, Scientists Discover. New York, New York. What happens when Mommy Rat runs away from home, leaving her litter of pups to fend for themselves? They get hungry-very hungry. No surprise there.

The Importance of Reading to Children
Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five
by Penelope Leach, Ph.D.
When parents read aloud to their children, everyone wins. It's fun for the adult and great for the kids. Easy for you and good for them. You don't even have to ration it because, unlike TV or ice cream, there's no such thing as too much.

Red Flags And Red Alerts: When you should call the doctor
The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
by Harvey Karp, M.D.
Fortunately, most colicky babies aren't physically sick; rather they're sot of homesick - struggling to cope with life outside of Mama's womb. But, how can you know when your infant's cries are a sign of sickness?

The Yoga Baby Program
Yogababy: Exercises to Help You Bond With Your Baby Physically, Emotionally and Spiritually
by DeAnsin Goodson Parker, Ph.D., Karen W. Bressler
Life is filled with rhythms. The planet has rhythms: the ebb and flow of the tides, the seasonal changes as Earth journeys around the Sun, the sequence of night and day as the planet spins on its axis. Your body and your baby's body have rhythms also

Part 1
The Baby Rules : The Insider's Guide to Raising Your Parents
by Jamie Schaefer-Wilson, Jo Ann Germinario
Out of the mouths of babes (literally!) comes this indispensable bible of infant-tested, baby-approved tips for perplexed parents who find themselves wondering why their new bundle of joy came with less instructions than their remote control.

The Gentle Art of Civilizing Toddlers
The Happiest Toddler on the Block: The New Way to Stop the Daily Battle of Wills and Raise a Secure and Well-Behaved One- to Four-Year-Old
by Harvey Karp, M.D., Paula Spencer
Main Points: All parents find toddlerhood challenging. Parenting tips that work with older children often fail miserably with toddlers. As your toddler grows, you are watching five million years of humanity unfold before your very eyes.

Whining
The Pocket Parent
by Gail Reichlin, Caroline Winkler
It's instant relief for when your 2-year-old is on the floor of the toy store, pitching a fit. Or when brother and sister discover that they can't stand each other. Or when your son can't say no to video games.

The "Colicky" Baby
Baby Hearts: A Guide to Giving Your Child an Emotional Head Start
by Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.
Poor Lisa and Jimmy. The baby has colic. So goes the sympathetic lament when we hear about a baby who never seems to stop crying. But what is colic? Is it a disease? Are the children crying because they are in pain?

Introduction
Parenting Guide to Toilet Training
by Anne Krueger, Parenting Magazine Editors
Your child hits a certain magical age and suddenly visions start filling your head: You see yourself taking a short road trip without a diaper bag. You look in the closet and there seems to be two cubic feet of extra space (no diapers!).

The Mother and Her Child
by William S. Sadler, M.D., Lena K. Sadler, M.D.
Happy is the mother and fortunate is the home that possesses the intelligent services of a trained attendant during the early days of the baby's career. A century or more ago skilled nurses were unheard of, and both mothers

Loving the Baby You Gave Birth To
Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby
by Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau
Oh My God, We Have a Baby! No event in an adult's life equals both the joy and the terror of becoming a parent for the first time. Fortunately, it's the joy that carries on. But in the beginning, insecurity and fear often take over.

The Evolution of Babies
Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
by Meredith F. Small
Several years ago, The American Museum of Natural History in New York City sponsored a special exhibit of human ancestors. Their goal was to bring to the public a four-million-year record of original human fossils.

Boot Camp, Baby
Planet Parenthood : The Funny, Helpful, Absolutely Essential Survivor's Guide to a Strange New World
by Julie Tilsner
Hey, welcome home! Cute little baby you've got there (and I emphasize little). But you've got everything ready, your nursery (or your bassinet by the bed), your supply of baby clothes and diapers. The pediatrician's twenty-four-hour emergency hot line