Babies and Toddlers

Your Baby's Amazing Brain
Baby Minds: Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love
by Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.
Remember that feeling of excitement and exhilaration the day your baby was born? You examined her tiny face and gazed with amazement into her unaccustomed eyes wondering what she must be feeling in her first experience of the outside world.

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

There's a reason they call it labor
The Fourth Trimester: And You Thought Labor Was Hard ... Advice, Humor, and Inspiration for New Moms on Surviving the First Six Weeks-and Beyond
by Amy Einhorn
Recovering from labor is the closest thing most women come to recuperating from a heavyweight fight. Chances are you were pushing for hours on end, you didn't sleep a bit, and you feel like you've been run over by a truck.

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

Breast Is Best! Breast-feeding for Success
The New Mom's Manual : Over 800 Tips and Advice from Hundreds of Moms for Baby's First Year
by Mary Jeanne Menna
Experts agree that breast milk is the best source of nutrition for baby, providing just the right amounts of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, as well as critical enzymes and antibodies that promote immunities to fight disease in your baby.

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!).

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

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

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.

How I Discovered the Secret to Successful Communication with 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
Where did your baby go? One day you're cradling a tiny newborn in your arms, all of parenthood stretched out in front of you. Then before you know it, you're living with an all-new creature-cuter than ever, but suddenly upright, opinionated, headstrong

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?

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.

At Last There's Hope: An Easy Way to Calm Crying Babies
The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
by Harvey Karp, M.D.
Estimates are that one out of every five babies has repeated bouts of terrible fussiness-for no apparent reason. That adds up to almost one million sweet new babies born in the U.S. each year who suffer from hours of red-faced, eyes-clenched screaming.

Happier, Smarter Babies
Baby Prodigy: A Guide to Raising a Smarter, Happier Baby
by Barbara Candiano-Marcus
As I began to research childhood brain development in order to develop the Baby Prodigy DVDs, CDs, and videos, I had to educate myself on how the brain worked. This chapter is by no means an effort to provide you with a full education in neuroanatomy

Month XIII
Autobiography of a One-Year-Old
by Rohan Candappa
In which, if you believe the books, I should be able to get into a standing position, clap hands and indicate wants in ways other than crying. Yeah, right. PARENTS. A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE THORNY SUBJECT OF: Essentially parents are odd fish.

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 Challenge of Toddlerhood
Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby
by Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau
You know the old saying, luv: 'Be careful what you wish for-you just might get it.' If you're like most parents, I suspect that you spent a good part of the first eight months of your baby's life wishing things would get easier.

Common Fussiness and Crying
Your Fussy Baby
by Marc Weissbluth, M.D.
Some of the things we know about ordinary, brief, or common fussing and crying shed light on extreme fussiness/colic. This information is often comforting to parents who are distressed by their child's fussing or crying.

The Importance of NO
How to Say No to Your Toddler: Creating a Safe, Rational, and Effective Discipline Program for Your 9-Month to 3-Year Old
by William G. Wilkoff, M.D.
We arrive at the threshold of parenting with our own unique collection of strengths and vulnerabilities. All children are not cut from the same cloth, and each of us must adopt a parenting style that is appropriate for our child's age and personality.

Why a Cesarean?
The Essential C-Section Guide: Pain Control, Healing at Home, Getting Your Body Back, and Everything Else You Need to Know About a Cesarean Birth
by Maureen Connolly, Dana Sullivan
With the benefit of hindsight, we know that our Cesarean deliveries weren't the result of anything we did or didn't do. But very few pregnant women (at least those who are not carrying multiples or have certain medical conditions) plan