What to expect the first year

Foreword: Parenting book that stands alone / Mark D Widome

Introduction: Second baby is born

Part 1: First Year:

Chapter 1: Get ready, get set

Feeding your baby: breast or formula, or both

Facts favoring breastfeeding

Breastfeeding myths

Facts favoring formula feeding

Factoring in feelings

When you can't or shouldn't breastfeed

Adoption and breastfeeding

What you may be wondering about

Coping with motherhood

Mother care

Changing lifestyle

This books' for you, too

Whether or not to go back to work

Leave: it's not just for mothers anymore

Grandparents

Lack of grandparents

Baby nurse or doula

Other sources of help

Circumcision

Which diapers to use

Quitting smoking

Name for baby

Preparing the family pet

Preparing your breasts for breastfeeding

Don't express yourself-yet

All About: Selecting the right physician

Pediatrician or family practitioner?

Health insurance for a healthy family

What kind of practice is perfect?

Finding Dr Right

Making sure Dr Right is right for you

When the choice isn't yours

Prenatal interview

Your partnership with Dr Right

Chapter 2: Buying for baby

Register for your baby needs

Baby's wardrobe

Baby's linens

Baby's grooming needs

Don't go nuts

Baby's medicine cabinet

Baby feeding supplies

Nursery necessities and niceties

Calling all recalls

Equipment for outings

What's in a buckle?

Rear-facing infant seat

LATCH system

Convertible seat/forward-facing seat

When baby gets older

Buying for baby's future

Chapter 3: Breastfeeding basics

Getting started breastfeeding

Getting help

Breastfeeding 101

How lactation works

Beginning to breastfeed

Breastfeeding positions

Proper latch

Sucking versus suckling

How long to feed

What type of nurser is your baby?

How often to feed

What you may be wondering about

Colostrum

Engorged breasts

Overabundant milk

Leaking and spraying

Let-down

Cluster feedings

Sore nipples

Bumps on the road to success?

Time spent breastfeeding

Nursing fashions

Nursing in public

Lump in breast

Mastitis

Breastfeeding during illness

Breastfeeding while menstruating

Birth control and the breastfeeding mother

Exercise and nursing

Combining breast and bottle

Nipple confusion got you confused?

Relactation

All About: Keeping your milk healthy and safe

What you eat

Can foods make milk?

What you drink

What medication you take

What you should avoid

No peanuts while feeding your little peanut?

Chapter 4: Your newborn baby

What your baby may be doing

What you can expect at hospital checkups

Testing your baby

Newborn hearing screening

Portrait of a newborn

Apgar test

Apgar table

Your newborn's reflexes

Hospital procedures for babies born at home

Feeding your baby: getting started formula feeding

Selecting a formula

Need help at the breast?

DHA: the smart choice in baby formulas?

How much formula is like a feast?

Safe bottle feeding

Bottle feeding with love

From bottle with love

Bottle feeding with ease

What you may be wondering about

Birthweight

Bonding

For fathers only: becoming engrossed

Weight loss

Baby's looks

Eye color

Bloodshot eyes

Eye ointment

Rooming-in

Have you heard the one

Pain medication

Baby's sleepiness

Newborn state of mind

Empty breasts

Gagging and choking

Sleeping through meals

Cracking the crying code

Nonstop feeding

Tips for successful feeding sessions

Quivering chin

Startling

Birthmarks

Complexion problems

Mouth cysts or spots

Early teeth

Don't forget to cover your baby

Thrush

Jaundice

Think you can't afford to cover your baby?

Newborn security

Scoop on newborn poop

Stool color

Going home

Pacifier use

All About: Baby care primer

Bathing baby

Shampooing baby

Safe seating

Safety from all sides?

Burping baby

Diapering baby

Dressing baby

Ear care

Lifting and carrying baby

Nail trimming

Nose care

Outings with baby

Penis care

Baby business

Sleeping position

Swaddling baby

Umbilical stump care. Chapter 5: First month

What your baby may be doing

What your baby may be doing this month

What you can expect at this month's checkup

Feeding your baby this month: expressing breast milk

Why mothers express milk

Choosing a pump

All about pumps

Fascinating facts

Pumping practice makes perfect

Preparing to pump

Tell tales from the other side

How to express breast milk

Where does the milk go?

Quick tip

Storing breast milk

What you may be wondering about

Breaking baby

Fontanels

Skinny baby

Having enough breast milk

Baby getting enough breast milk

Nursing blisters

Feeding schedule

Double the trouble, double the fun

Changing your mind about breastfeeding

Too much formula

Timing is everything

Supplementary water

Vitamin supplements

Supplement sense

Spitting up

Quick tip

Blood in spit-up

Milk allergy

Milk allergy in breastfed babies

Bowel movements

Explosive bowel movements

Passing gas

Constipation

Sleeping positions

Sleeping patterns

Restless sleep

Mixing up of night and day

Noise when baby is sleeping

Baby's breathing

Better sleep for baby

Moving a sleeping baby to bed

Crying

Colic

Surviving colic

Prescription for colic

Spoiling baby

Coping with crying

Pacifier

Healing of the umbilical cord

Umbilical hernia

Circumcision care

Swollen scrotum

Hypospadias

Swaddling

Keeping baby the right temperature

Taking baby out

Exposure to outsiders

Infant acne

Skin color changes

Hearing

Loud music

Vision

Keeping baby safe

Photo flashes

Crossed eyes

Teary eyes

Sneezing

First smiles

Hiccups

Using detergent on baby's clothes

All About: Baby development

Today's slower babies

What month is it, anyway?

Chapter 6: Second month

What your baby may be doing

What you can expect at this month's checkup

Making the most of those monthly checkups

Feeding your baby: introducing the bottle

Bottle-free

Supplementation myths

What's in the bottle?

Winning baby over

Mix it up

Making the introduction

Supplementing when baby isn't thriving

What you may be wondering about

Smiling

Look who's talking

Cooing

How do you talk to a baby?

Baby talk

Second language

Understanding your baby

Making the most of the first three years

Comparing babies

Immunization

Immunization myths

ABCs of DTaPs and MMrs and IPVs

Recommended immunization schedule

When to call the doctor after an immunization

Cradle cap

Crooked feet

Undescended testicles

Penile adhesion

Inguinal hernia

Inverted nipples

Favoring one breast

Using a baby carrier or sling

Challenging baby

Do you have a challenging baby?

Baby won't sleep on back

All About: Stimulating your baby in the early months

Creating a good environment

Practical tips for learning and playing

Location, location, location

Chapter 7: Third month

What your baby may be doing

What you can expect at this month's checkup

Feeding your baby: breastfeeding and working

Breastfeeding and working-making them work for you

Corporate lactation programs

What you may be wondering about

Establishing a regular schedule

Putting baby to bed

Dueling parenting philosophies

Waking up for nighttime feedings

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

What is SIDS?

Reducing the risk of SIDS

Reporting breathing emergencies to your doctor

Sharing a room with baby

Sharing a bed

Still using a pacifier

Early weaning

Supplementing with cow's milk

Longer the better

Fewer bowel movements

Diaper rash

Penis sore

Spastic movements

Roughhousing

Never shake a baby

Being tied down breastfeeding

Leaving baby with a sitter

All About: Right child care for baby

In-home care

Baby-sitter checklist

Nanny in the know

Is he manny enough for the job?

Business of hiring a nanny

Keeping an eye on the sitter

Group day care

Your child as a barometer of child care

Home day care

Corporate day care

Safe sleeping

Babies on the job

When your child is sick

Chapter 8: Fourth month

What your baby may be doing

What you can expect at this month's checkup

Feeding your baby: thinking about solids

What you may be wondering about

Rejection of the breast

Wriggling at changing time

Propping baby

Baby's standing

Baby fussing in infant seat

Baby unhappy in car seat

Thumb sucking

Chubby baby

Hold the juice

Thin baby

How does your baby grow?

Heart murmur

Black stool

Baby massage

Exercise

All About: Playthings for baby

Suitable for cuddling. Chapter 9: Fifth month

What your baby may be doing

What you can expect at this month's checkup

Feeding your baby: starting solids

Good early foods to offer baby

Opening night-and beyond

Foods to premiere with

Not this year, baby

Expanding baby's repertoire

First-year diet for beginners

Who's counting?

Baby daily dozen

No honey for your little honey

Double-duty jars

What you may be wondering about

Teething

Teething chart

Chronic cough

Ear pulling

Naps

Eczema

Using a back carrier

Gratuitous advice

Starting the cup

Sippy safety

Feeding baby safely

Food allergies

Feeding chairs

Walkers

Feeding chair safety tips

Reducing walker risks

Jumpers

Baby swing

All About: Environmental hazards and your baby

Protecting children

Household pest control

Lead

Unsuitable for digging?

Otherwise contaminated water

BPA concerns

Polluted indoor air

Safer walk on the wild side

Contaminants in food

Food hazards in perspective

Out of the mouths of babes

Organic foods-growing availability

Chapter 10: Sixth month

What your baby may be doing

What you can expect at this month's checkup

Feeding your baby: commercial or home-prepared baby foods

Commercial baby food

Food for thought

Home-prepared baby foods

Attention do-it-yourselfers

What you may be wondering about

Still not sleeping through the night

It's all in the timing

What will the neighbors think?

Sleep sharing

Early rising

Turning over during the night

Bathing in the big tub

Safe big-bath bathing

Bottle rejection in a breastfed baby

Changes in bowel movements

Brushing baby's teeth

Baby's first toothbrush

Baby-bottle mouth

Weaning to cow's milk

Salt intake

Cereal snubbing

Vegan diet

No meat? No problem

Anemia screenings

Shoes for baby

All About: Stimulating your older baby

How do you speak to your baby now?

Chapter 11: Seventh month

What your baby may be doing

What you can expect at this month's checkup

Feeding your baby: moving up from strained foods

What you may be wondering about

Picking up baby

Grandparents spoiling baby

Baby's acting up with you

Is my baby gifted?

Not sitting yet

Biting nipples

Snacking

Dinner and a baby

Grazing

Teeth coming in crooked

Tooth stains

All About: Putting the super in baby

Chapter 12: Eighth month

What your baby may be doing

What you can expect at this month's checkup

Feeding your baby: finally-finger foods

What you may be wondering about

Baby's first words

Signing with baby

Baby's not crawling yet

Scooting

Messy house

Eating off the floor

Eating dirt-and worse

Getting dirty

Erections

Discovering genitals

Play yard/playpen use

Reading to baby

Left- or right-handedness

Crib safety now

Childproofing your home

All About: Making home safe for baby

Change your ways

Change your baby's surroundings

Poison control

Safety equipment

Change your baby

Red light on greenery

Chapter 13: Ninth month

What your baby may be doing

What you can expect at this month's checkup

Feeding your baby: establishing good habits now

What you may be wondering about

Feeding baby at the table

Loss of interest in nursing

Got milk? Not yet

Fussy eating habits

Some cereal with that butternut squash?

Self-feeding

Strange stools

Changes in sleep patterns

Pulling up

Flat feet

Walking too early?

Slow development

Fear of strangers

Security objects

No teeth

Still hairless

All About: Games babies play

Chapter 14: Tenth month

What your baby may be doing

What you can expect at this month's checkup

Feeding your baby: when to wean

What you may be wondering about

Messy eating habits

Head banging, rocking, and rolling

Hair rolling and pulling

Teeth grinding

Biting

Baby social scene

Blinking

Breath holding

Starting classes

Shoes for walking

Hair care

Fears

All About: Beginning of discipline

To spank or not to spank

Chapter 15: Eleventh month

What your baby may be doing

What you can expect at this month's checkup

Feeding your baby: weaning from the bottle

What you may be wondering about

Bowed legs

Parental nudity

Falls

Not pulling up yet

Baby tooth injuries

Cholesterol in baby's diet

Growth swings

All About: Helping baby to talk

Chapter 16: Twelfth month

What your baby may be doing

You know your baby best

What you can expect at this month's checkup

Feeding your baby: weaning from the breast

Weaning from the breast

Keeping yourself comfortable

Milk sense

What you may be wondering about

First birthday party

Not yet walking

Handle with care

Increased separation anxiety

Attachment to the bottle

Don't have a cow

Putting the weaned baby to bed

Bedtime separation anxiety

Shyness

Social skills

Sharing

Hitting

Forgetting a skill

Drop in appetite

Picky eating

Going nuts?

Increase in appetite

Refusing to self-feed

Growing independence

Nonverbal language

Gender differences

Toddler years continued

Switching to a bed

Using a pillow

Watching TV

Multimedia for babies

Hyperactivity

Negativism

All About: Stimulating your one-year-old

Eyes have it already

Safety reminder. Part 2: Of Special Concern:

Chapter 17: Baby for all seasons

What you may be wondering about in summer weather

Keeping baby cool

Summer rash

Heatstroke

Too much sun

What to look for in selecting a sunscreen

Insect bites

Summer safety

Water, baby?

Water babies

As the food turns

What you may be wondering about in winter weather

Keeping baby warm

Changeable weather

Frostbite

Snow burn

Keeping baby warm indoors

Dry skin

Fireplace fires

Holiday hazards

Safe gift giving

Under wraps

All About: Season for travel

Planning ahead

Just the two of you?

Packing wisely

Getting there is half the fun?

At high altitudes

At hotels and motels-or other homes away from home

Having fun

Chapter 18: When baby is sick

Before calling the doctor

Parent's intuition

How much rest for a sick baby?

Feeding a sick baby

When medication is needed

What you should know about the medication

Giving medication correctly

Helping the medicine go down

Most common infant health problems

Allergies

Having a pet is nothing to sneeze at

Is it an allergy-or just intolerance?

Cold or allergy?

Common cold or upper respiratory infection (URI)

Taking the bite out of the flu bug

Treating baby's symptoms

Hand-washing solution

Frequent cold program

Sudden cough

Constipation

Complementary and alternative medicine

Diarrhea

Middle ear inflammation (otitis media)

Better juice for your sick baby?

Gastroesophageal reflux (GER)

Your baby's health history

Urinary tract infection (UTI)

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)

All About: Fever

Convulsions in a feverish baby

Taking baby's temperature

Fever doesn't tell the whole story

Evaluating a fever

Before that first fever

Handling febrile convulsions

Treating a fever

Acetaminophen or ibuprofen?

Chapter 19: First aid do's and don'ts

Abdominal injuries

Bites

Bleeding, internal

Broken bones or fractures

Bruises, skin

Burns and scalds

Be prepared

Chemical burns

Choking

Convulsions

Cuts

Dislocations

Dog bites

Drowning (submersion injury)

Ear injuries

Electric shock

Eye injury

Fainting/loss of consciousness

Finger and toe injuries

Treating a young patient

Frostbite and hypothermia

Head injuries

Heat injuries

Hypothermia

Insect stings or bites

Lip, split or cut

Mouth injuries

Nose injuries

Poisoning

Poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac

Puncture wounds

Scrapes

Severed limb or digit

Shock

Skin wounds

Bandaging a boo-boo

Splinters or slivers

Sunburn

Swallowed foreign objects

Teeth, injury to

Toe injuries

Tongue, injury to

Resuscitation techniques for babies and children

When baby is choking

Unsuspected inhaled object

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR): rescue breathing and chest compression

Rescue breathing (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

Chest compressions (CPR): babies under one year

Chest compressions (CPR): children over one year

CPR: the most important class you'll hopefully never need

Chapter 20: Low-birthweight baby

Feeding your baby: nutrition for the preterm or low-birthweight infant

Early weight loss

Expressing milk for a premature baby

Feeding at home

What you may be wondering about

Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)

Portrait of a preemie

Getting optimum care

Lack of bonding

Lights out?

Long hospitalization

Intrauterine growth restriction

Siblings

Breastfeeding

Handling baby

Taking baby home

Permanent problems

Catching up

Car seats

Preemie vaccines

Guilt

Home-care tips for preterm babies

All About: Health problems common in low-birthweight babies

Rehospitalization

Chapter 21: Special needs baby

Feeding your baby: can diet make a difference?

What you may be wondering about

Feeding responsible

Feeling angry

When the guilt is real

Not loving the baby

Working out your feelings

What to tell others

Handling it all

Be a friend in deed

Getting the right diagnosis

Just the facts

Where to go for help

Whether or not to accept treatment

Getting the best care and treatment

Effect of baby on siblings

Effects on your relationship

Repeat with the next baby

Different birth defect next time

All About: Most common birth disorders

AIDS/HIV-perinatal

Anencephaly

Autism

Celiac disease

Cerebral palsy

Cleft lip and/or palate

Clubfoot and other foot and ankle deformities

Congential heart defect

Cystic Fibrosis (CF)

Deformation

Down syndrome

Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)

Hydrocephalus

Malformation

Pyloric stenosis

RH disease

When diagnosis makes all the difference

Sickle-cell anemia

Spina bifida (open spine)

Tay-Sachs disease

How defects are inherited

Thalassemia

Tracheoesophageal fistula

Chapter 22: Adopted baby

What you may be wondering about

Getting ready

Adoption medicine

Not feeling like a parent

Loving the baby

Baby's crying a lot

Waiting period

Postadoption blues

Breastfeeding an adopted baby

Grandparents' attitudes

Unknown health problems

Dealing with friends and family

Adoption antibodies

Telling baby

Support for the adopting family

Adoption benefits. Part 3: For The Family:

Chapter 23: For mom: enjoying the first year

What you should be eating: the postpartum diet

Nine basic diet principles for new mothers

Daily dozen for postpartum and breastfeeding

One-two punch

If you're not breastfeeding

What you may be wondering about

Exhaustion

Newly delivered?

Postpartum depression

Getting help for postpartum depression

Getting everything done

Not being in control

Not feeling competent

When you're on your own

Doing things right

Aches and pains

Return of menstruation

Time to stock up on tampons?

Urinary incontinence

It's Kegel time again

Regaining your figure

Getting back into shape

Stroller exercise

Fitting sex in

Easing back into sex

Slight spotting alert

Stretched vagina

State of your romance

Thinking about the next baby

Planning ahead

Birth control

Hormonal contraceptive warning signs

IUD warning signs

Barrier method warning signs

Basal body temperature

Diagnosing a new pregnancy

Passing germs on to baby

Finding time for yourself

Finding outside interests

Bring baby along

Friendships

Different mothering styles

Jealousy of daddy's parenting skills

Jealousy of daddy's attention to baby

Quality time

Leaving baby with a sitter

All About: Working vs not working

Family-friendly work

When to return to your job

Chapter 24: Becoming a father

What you may be wondering about

Paternity leave

Don't stop here

Stay-at-home father

Spouse's baby blues

Your depression

Mixed feelings

It takes three

Jealousy of mother's attention to baby

Feeling inadequate as a father

Father's touch

Dads matter

Unfair burden?

Gift that lasts a lifetime

Not enough time to spend with baby

Chapter 25: From only child to older child

What you may be wondering about

Preparing an older child

Read all about it

Siblings at the birth

Separation and hospital visits

Easing the homecoming

Resentment

Explaining genital differences

Nursing in front of an older child

Older child who wants to nurse

Helping sibling live with colic

Regressive behavior

Older sibling hurting the new baby

Seeing green?

Dividing time and attention

Widely space sibs

Sibling attachment

Escalating warfare

Part 4: Ready Reference:

Baby's first recipes

Four to eight months

Steamed any-kind-of-vegetable

Stewed any-kind-of-fruit

Six to twelve months

Lentil stew

Baby's first casserole

Eight to twelve months

Tomato and cheese pasta

Baby's first Thanksgiving turkey

Eggy bread

Croque bebe

Banana French toast

Funny fingers

Fruit sundae

Apple-cranberry cubes

Banana-orange gel

Peachy frozen yogurt

Fabulous finger foods

Quick mealtime ideas

First birthday cake

Cream cheese frosting

Common home remedies

Cold compresses

Cold soaks

Cool compresses

Eye soaks

Heating pad

Hot compresses

Hot soaks

Hot-water bottle

Ice pack

Increased fluids

Nasal aspiration

Saltwater irrigation

Steam

Warm compresses

Dosage chart for common infant-fever medication

Common childhood infections

Chart of illnesses

Height and weight charts

Index