25 Things Every New Mother Should Know
By Martha Sears, Dr. William Sears
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This beautiful, stylish, four-color book is a revision of the classic by Martha and William Sears, best-selling authors and America’s foremost childcare experts. It contains important, timeless advice for new mothers which reflects the Sears’s “attachment parenting” philosophy—a natural, instinctive style of parenting. It addresses all the issues—practical, emotional, and philosophical—that a new mother faces every day. Dr. Sears’s suggestions appear throughout in boxes, while the main text of the book reflects the straightforward tone of Martha Sears, an experienced mother of eight.Authors of numerous popular books on baby care, the Searses have distilled the wisdom they’ve gleaned over the years into a small, clear-headed volume of advice. This guide, covering such matters as feeding methods, sleeping arrangements, crying (the baby’s and the mother’s), the father’s role, and family support, shows mothers that, although baby care takes time and devotion, it needn’t be lonely or exhausting.
Praise
“This thoughtful, insightful, knowledgeable book grasps the essential ingredients of the role and joys of being a mother.”
—Marshall Klaus, M.D., and Phyllis Klaus, M.ED., C.S.W., authors of The Amazing Newborn and Mothering the Mother
“Start out on the right foot with the right book!”
—Marian Tompson, co-founder of La Leche League International
“This is a book I’ve been waiting for! A wonderful resource for committed parenting.”
—Janet Balaskas, author of Active Birth and Natural Pregnancy
“Martha and Bill Sears reach out to give women the reassurance to make it through the first months of motherhood with as little anxiety and as much joy as possible.”
—Gale Pryor, co-author of Nursing Your Baby
“Here is a practical, readable guide to the realities of parenting. I wish I’d had this book when my children were born!”
—Linda Hughey Holt, M.D., author of the AMA Guide to Womancare and Nine Months and a Day