Heidi Murkoff is the author behind the "What to Expect®" series. Her work is dedicated to offering practical and supportive guidance for parents navigating their journey. She aims to make her writing accessible and easy to understand, establishing herself as a trusted resource for expectant and new parents. Through her publications and online platforms, Murkoff empowers parents with knowledge and confidence.
A Journal and daily diary to record all those memorable moments in the making of your baby-from the test coming back positive to the first ultrasound. From the first kick to delivery to the first cuddle. An Organizer to keep track of everything pregnancy: practitioner visits and shopping lists, birthing plans and birth announcements, baby names and baby gifts. An All-in-One Place to write down everything you'll want to remember about the most exciting nine months of your life.
With over 7 million copies sold, this bestselling guide on infant care has been updated and revised by Heidi Murkoff. It serves as a comprehensive month-by-month resource for new parents, addressing common concerns and providing essential information for the first year with a baby. The book details monthly growth and development, age-appropriate feeding, and effective sleep strategies. It offers practical tips on various topics, such as bathing, interpreting baby cries, shopping for essentials, and navigating parental leave. Additionally, it includes the latest medical advice on vaccines, vitamins, illnesses, SIDS, and safety. The guide features numerous Q&A sections, a first-aid guide, and charts that outline growth, feeding, and sleeping patterns, ensuring it meets both the physical and emotional needs of the entire family. With its focus on up-to-date medical and developmental knowledge, this resource is both down-to-earth and reassuring, making it an invaluable tool for all new parents. Heidi Murkoff, the co-author of this series, has shared her expertise on various national TV shows, although she does not have formal medical training.
The most essential, evidence-based advice for baby's first year in an easily
digestible and full-colour illustrated format designed for today's busy
parents.
With 18.5 million copies in print, What to Expect When You're Expecting is read by 93% of women who read a pregnancy book and was named one of the 'Most Influential Books of the Last 25 Years' by USA Today. This cover-to-cover (including the cover!) new edition is filled with must-have information, advice, insight, and tips for a new generation of mums and dads. With What to Expect's trademark warmth, empathy, and humour, it answers every conceivable question expectant parents could have, including dozens of new ones based on the ever-changing pregnancy and birthing practices and choices they face. Advice for dads is fully integrated throughout the book. All medical coverage is completely updated, including the latest on prenatal screening and the safety of medications during pregnancy, as well as a brand-new section on postpartum birth control. Current lifestyle trends are incorporated, too: juice bars, raw diets, e-cigarettes, push presents, baby bump posting, the lowdown on omega-3 fatty acids, grass-fed and organic, health food fads, and GMOs. Plus expanded coverage of IVF pregnancy, multiple pregnancies, breastfeeding while pregnant, water and home births, and cesarean trends (including VBACs and 'gentle cesareans').
Introducing the totally revised and updated WHAT TO EXPECT PREGNANCY JOURNAL & ORGANIZER-- with 715,000 copies in print, it's the perfect gift and popular companion to "What to Expect When You're Expecting. Lightweight and sized to fit into a tote or briefcase, this handy planner is an expectant mom's best friend from conception through labor and delivery. For the new edition, the text has been brought completely up to date in accordance with the information in the recently revised third edition of "What to Expect When You're Expecting. Featuring prompted pages, checklists, and a weekly write-in pregnancy and labor journal, this is the best way for mothers-to-be to keep track of important dates, questions to ask the doctor, medications, milestones, childbirth class notes, shopping lists, phone numbers, and everything else that comes with the nine months of pregnancy. The journal/organizer's compact design ensures it can go everywhere mom goes. After baby's arrival, it becomes an instant keepsake.
What to expect. . . the first step. Answers to all your baby-making questions. Are there ways to improve our chances of having a girl (or boy)? Does stress affect fertility? Should we be having sex every day? Every other day? Three times a day? I’m 37. Does that mean I’ll have a harder time getting pregnant? How long should we keep trying to conceive before we get some help? What fertility treatments are available—and how will we be able to pay for them? Expecting to expect? Plan ahead. Here’s everything you need to know to help prepare for the healthiest possible pregnancy and the healthiest possible baby. Filled with practical tips, empathetic advice, and savvy strategies, all designed to help you get that baby of your dreams on board faster. How to get your body into the best baby-making shape. Which foods feed fertility. Which lifestyle habits to quit and which to cultivate. All about baby-making sex, from timing to positions to logistics—and how to keep it sexy. Figuring out your fertility (and his). When to seek fertility help, and the latest on tests, treatments, and reproductive technology. Expecting to become a dad? This book has you covered, too. Plus, all about the family-building options for single women and same-sex couples.
"It's a cover-to-cover revision of America's bestselling guide to getting pregnant, with updated information about genetic screening, ovulation tracking, fertility treatments, and risks like Zika. What to Expect Before You're Expecting, with over 250,000 copies in print, has everything that eager-to-be moms and dads need to know about getting pregnant, from getting their bodies ready to make a healthy baby to getting that healthy baby on board faster. You'll find baby-friendly foods to order up (say yes to yams); fertility-busters to avoid (see you later, saturated fat); how to pinpoint ovulation, time baby-making sex, keep on-demand sex sexy, and separate conception fact--it takes the average couple up to 12 months to make a baby--from myth--position matters. With the latest on health insurance coverage, preconception travel and the Zika virus, sex selection techniques, antidepressants, and information on family-building options for single women and same-sex couples. Plus, for the 1 in 8 couples who experience infertility, the latest on both low-tech and cutting-edge fertility treatments, from medications to IVF and surrogacy. It's everything you need to know for that baby-making adventure"-- Provided by publisher
For live-in nannies, Saturday night sitters, and everyone who cares for kids. Answers to the questions sitters ask most: The parents want me to pick up their newborn every time he cries—won’t that spoil him? A child who comes over for play dates always makes a terrible mess and never helps to clean up. What can I do? The girl I baby-sit for tripped and got a bump on her head. What’s the best way to tell the parents? I take care of a six-month-old and a three-year-old with completely different sleeping patterns. How do I juggle naptimes? Packed with information and insight, the What to Expect Baby-Sitter’s Handbook covers all the basics and so much more. How to keep a child safe and what to do in an emergency. The top five reasons babies cry, and eleven surefire ways to calm them down. Taming temper tantrums and tempting the finicky eater. How to talk to a baby and how to get a toddler talking. Bathing, potty training, sibling disputes, time-outs—and how to make the family-sitter relationship a happy one. Plus, a special fill-in section where parents can write down what they think is important for sitters to know about their kids.
The internationally acclaimed What to Expect brand introduces a new essential guide for parents: a sequel that begins at baby’s first birthday and navigates through a year filled with memorable milestones. This "wonder year" encompasses everything from first steps and words to scribbles and friendships, alongside the rapid learning and exploration driven by a toddler's insatiable curiosity. However, this year also presents challenges for both toddlers and their parents, including picky eating, negativity, separation anxiety, bedtime struggles, biting, and tantrums.
Comprehensive and empathetic, this guide offers practical solutions, strategies, and motivational support to help parents understand and cope with the complexities of their evolving child. It covers essential topics in an easy-to-access format, including growth, feeding, sleeping, behaviors, discipline, and health and safety concerns as toddlers explore the world. A developmental timeline for the second year and special milestone boxes assist parents in tracking their child's progress. Additionally, there's a chapter dedicated to traveling with a toddler, ensuring parents are well-prepared for adventures with their little ones.
