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Heading Home With Your Newborn
Heading Home With Your Newborn
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Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of this trusted guide delivers essential, real-world advice from two pediatrician moms. Inside, you’ll find everything new parents need to navigate the first year—from feeding, diapering, and bathing to sleep, soothing, travel, and playtime.
This edition also includes timely updates: expanded guidance on baby blues and postpartum depression, new insights on breastfeeding and pumping (including insurance benefits), the latest safety standards for SIDS prevention and car seats, plus refreshed recommendations throughout in line with current AAP guidelines.
Backed by both medical expertise and hands-on parenting experience, this parent-tested, pediatrician-approved resource will help you feel confident during those first tender days and weeks at home—and provide reliable answers throughout your baby’s entire first year.
Why Parents Love It
- Written by pediatricians who are also parents, both expert and empathetic.
- Includes modern topics: safe sleep, social media sharing, pumping & insurance, postpartum support.
- Comprehensive yet practical guidance for real life from hospital to home.
- Updated with the latest AAP recommendations & recent research.
Product Details
Authors: Laura A. Jana, MD, FAAP & Jennifer Shu, MD, FAAP
Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
Publication Date: September 22, 2020
Edition: Fourth edition
Language: English
Print Length: 391 pages
ISBN-10: 1610024249
ISBN-13: 978-1610024242
Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Format: Paperback
Topics Covered
- Feeding (breastfeeding, formula, pumping, supplements)
- Sleep strategies and safe sleep guidelines
- Crying, bathing, dressing, and newborn hygiene
- Diapering, changing, and handling messes
- Well-baby visits, vaccinations, illness, injuries
- Mental health: baby blues & postpartum depression
- Travel with newborn, social media implications, parenting tips from two pediatricians
Customer Reviews & Ranking
- Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
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Best Sellers Rank:
- #6 in Pediatric Perinatology & Neonatology
- #8 in Postpartum Depression
- #203 in Baby & Toddler Parenting
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