5 Responses to “The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two”

• By Anonymous on Jul 26, 2010

  Just wanted to know at what age should a child be away from her mother for overnights with her father that she has visits with him every other weekend and she crys she doesen’t want to go with him now over nights are going to start do u think she is old enough to go we don’t please let me know what age is right for her to leave her mother. She is only 15 months.
  Rating: 5 / 5
• By Anonymous on Jul 26, 2010

  I preferred the advice for Dad’s that I read in “Breathe! A Guy’s Guide to Pregnancy!” by National Lampoon editor Mason Brown:

  …COPING STRATEGIES
  1) BEER:
  Nothing takes the edge off fathering like an ice-cold frosty one. Sure the little one is crying and your wife’s riding your ass for leaving the boy in the crib all day, but how nice is that Golden Brewski? To really enjoy it, why not head down to your local Public House and wash away your problems with some friends. Pretty soon you might become as happy as that lovably raffish Andy Capp.

  I also liked Brown’s Developmental milestone checklist:

  …By the end of the 3rd month, your baby should be able to:
  - On stomach, lift head 45 degrees
  - Follow an object in an arc 6 inches in front of his face
  - Roll over (on a steep incline)

  Will likely be ablie to:
  - squeal in delight
  - bring both hands together
  - Pee at the exact moment his diaper gets taken off

  May be able to:
  - lodge a raisin so deeply into his nose as to require hospitalization.

  Enough Mollycoddling! Read “Breathe!”
  Rating: 3 / 5
• By Anonymous on Jul 26, 2010

  I wish I could give NEGATIVE 5 stars. He actually writes that if you have post partum depression and need medication, you probably shouldn’t take it because then you can’t breastfeed and that would make you more depressed because breastfed babies are “better citizens.” What a load of crap! First, telling someone with PPD to hesitate to get treatment – is outrageous. Second, saying that breastfeeding is the only way to go (he basically says that) is narrowminded and judgmental. This man should be arrested.
  Rating: 1 / 5
• By kim maddox on Jul 26, 2010

  Dr. Sears stresses throughout the book that the crib is so unimportant, and the baby should sleep in the parents’ bed. Also, Dr. Sears stresses to carry the baby all day long in a sling. These are two ridiculous ways to raise your baby and no one should practice this advice.
  Rating: 1 / 5
• By S. McCormick on Jul 26, 2010

  This is a great book if you want to sleep with your child until it’s 12, if you want to remain barefoot and pregnant until they are 18 and if you want to deal with their therapy payments until they are 21. The Sears’ advocate “attachment parenting” which isn’t practical (or sane) for most contemporary families. One of the chapters is about how to avoid an epidural. Need I say more to any of those of you out there who have had a child.
  Rating: 1 / 5

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