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Sharon Mazel

    Sharon Mazel is a writer, journalist, and recognized expert in pregnancy and parenting. Her work is prominently featured in the acclaimed 'What to Expect' book series and website. Mazel focuses on delivering essential guidance and information to expectant and new parents. Through her writing, she offers practical support and insights during the pivotal stages of parenthood.

    What to Expect When You're Expecting 4th Edition
    What to Expect the First Year
    The Second Year. What to Expect
    What to Expect Baby-Sitter's Handbook
    Die Zeit der Häuptlinge
    What to Expect Series: What to Expect the 1st Year
    • Drugi rok życia dziecka

      • 560 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      Najpopularniejsza seria poradnik�w dla rodzic�w.Drugi rok życia dziecka to całkowicie nowe opracowanie znanego poradnika, kt�ry dotychczas obejmował drugi i trzeci rok życia.Jednakże czas pomiędzy 12 a 24 miesiącem życia jest szczeg�lnie ważny w rozwoju dziecka i stawia przed rodzicami wiele wyzwań. Dlatego autorki postanowiły poświęcić temu trudnemu, ale i wspaniałemu okresowi odrębną książkę, w kt�rej skupiły się na drugim roku życia, ale też nieco wybiegają w przyszłość. Zawarły w niej mn�stwo najnowszych informacji na temat rozwoju dziecka i problem�w, przed jakimi mogą stanąć jego rodzice i opiekunowie.

      Drugi rok życia dziecka2016
      4.0
    • The Second Year. What to Expect

      • 528 pages
      • 19 hours of reading

      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.

      The Second Year. What to Expect2012
      3.9
    • What to Expect Series: What to Expect the 1st Year

      New 2nd Edition Revised and Updated

      • 832 pages
      • 30 hours of reading

      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.

      What to Expect Series: What to Expect the 1st Year2010
      4.5
    • "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

      Die Zeit der Häuptlinge2009
      3.9
    • What to Expect : the Toddler Years

      • 904 pages
      • 32 hours of reading

      Covering years two and three of a child's life, this comprehensive guide for parents of toddlers contains useful information about sleeping problems, discipline, peer pressure, toilet training, and other topics.

      What to Expect : the Toddler Years2009
      3.8
    • What to Expect When You're Expecting 4th Edition

      The World's Bestselling Pregnancy Manual - Completely Revised and Updated

      • 614 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      Eighteen years after its initial release and with over 10 million copies sold, this completely revised and updated edition remains a staple for expectant parents. It offers answers to hundreds of questions and concerns in a month-by-month format, starting from pregnancy planning to six weeks postpartum. Each chapter outlines what to expect during prenatal visits and describes the growth and changes of both mom and baby. The core of each chapter addresses common concerns, presenting questions like "Should I take vitamins?" and "Will I be able to breastfeed?" The reassuring answers aim to ease worries between visits, though the extensive range of topics may overwhelm some moms-to-be. Additionally, the book includes a complete nutrition plan, which may be challenging to follow, a special chapter for expectant dads, and detailed information on managing minor illnesses, chronic conditions, and pregnancy complications. This guide has supported countless women through their pregnancies, making it a valuable resource in the pregnancy and childbirth genre.

      What to Expect When You're Expecting 4th Edition2008
      3.8
    • What to Expect Baby-Sitter's Handbook

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      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.

      What to Expect Baby-Sitter's Handbook2003
      3.8
    • What to Expect the First Year

      • 832 pages
      • 30 hours of reading

      America's bestselling guide to caring for a baby, with over 10 million copies in print, What to Expect the First Year is the bible for taking care of a newborn though the milestone of his or her first birthday. The Second Edition incorporates the most recent developments in pediatric medicine. Every question and answer has been revisited, and in response to letters from readers, dozens of new Q&As have been added. The book is more reader-friendly than ever, with updated cultural references, and the new material brings more in-depth coverage to issues such as newborn screening, home births and the resulting at-home newborn care, vitamins and vaccines, milk allergies, causes of colic, sleep problems, SIDS, returning to work, dealing with siblings, weaning, sippy cups, the expanded role of the father, and much more. An updated cover and all-new black-and-white line illustrations complement the fresher book with a fresher look.

      What to Expect the First Year2003
      3.9