The Baby Book

The Baby Book
by Dr. William Sears
Review by Erin Pavlina 

The Baby Book is a comprehensive book detailing how to care for your baby from birth to toddlerhood. When I say comprehensive, I mean it! This book is very large. I recommend that you read this book while you are pregnant because you won’t have time to read it when your baby is born.

Subjects covered include breastfeeding, behavior and development milestones, attachment parenting, how to get your baby to sleep (which is the chapter I am clinging to right now), starting solids, first aid, bathing your baby, and a lot more. 

Just the wealth of information this book offers makes it a must have on your parenting book shelf. When my baby got her first fever you can be sure I was thumbing through this book at 2am frantically trying to figure out what to do. The breastfeeding section also helped me tremendously, although the Sears’ also have a book solely on breastfeeding which probably contains even more information. Their whole series of books is worth checking out.