Bite-Sized Parenting: Your Baby's First Year

Name: Bite-Sized Parenting: Your Baby's First Year
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781637742655
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The Essential Guide to What Matters Most, from Sleeping and Feeding to Development and Play, in an Illustrated Month-by-Month Format

By Sharon Mazel

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Bite-Sized Parenting: Your Baby's First Year by Sharon Mazel distils the essential, science-backed advice for caring for your baby’s first year into an accessible, colourful format. Designed for busy parents, it offers month-by-month guidance with nearly 100 illustrated infographics covering sleep, feeding, developmental milestones, and common challenges. Each section balances quick overviews with deeper insights, helping new parents approach their baby’s needs with confidence, calm, and reassurance.
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This book is ideal for new parents seeking reliable, evidence-based advice presented in a clear, manageable format. It suits those with limited time who need immediate tips as well as more detailed knowledge on infant care, development, and wellbeing. It also makes a thoughtful gift for any new mum or dad.

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.

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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.

Congratulations! You have a new baby. But what you don't have is a lot of time to comb through the overwhelming amount of information on caring for that baby.

In Bite-Sized Parenting, Sharon Mazel, one of America's most trusted parenting experts, presents the latest, most practical science-backed advice that new mums and dads need most, without judgment and in an engaging visual format.

Bite-Sized Parenting is designed to make parenting in the first year less complicated and stressful. Its month-by-month format and full-colour illustrated infographics—nearly 100 in all—are filled with expert medical, behavioural, nutritional, and developmental details aimed at empowering parents to care for their little ones with calm and confidence.

Strapped for time? Spend a few minutes with the bite-sized overviews for targeted advice, tips, and strategies you can use right away. Want to dig deeper and learn more? Read the "A Closer Look" sections for an in-depth dive, with more nuance, guidance, and background on each must-know topic.

Each month, readers will learn:

Your baby "by the numbers"—expected ranges for your baby's sleep times, feeding amounts, weight gain, and more.
Age- and stage-appropriate guidance on feeding and eating, naps and night-time sleep, baby care and playing, and more.
How to tackle common first-year challenges, including soothing a crying baby, recognising hunger and sleep cues, teething and spitting up, starting solids and gagging, feeding and sleeping challenges, stranger anxiety, and more.
Expert advice for tummy time, reaching motor milestones like rolling over, sitting, and crawling, stimulating baby's brain, boosting language development, and more.
Support for how you may be feeling in your baby's first year—with reassurance that you're not alone.

The perfect gift (for yourself or someone else), Bite-Sized Parenting offers the key information new parents need, with warmth, support, and encouragement.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781637742655

Publisher: BenBella Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 September 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: BenBella Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 143.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 336

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Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Parenting & Family Penguin Books Self-Help & Personal Development Sharon Mazel

About the Author

Sharon Mazel is an internationally recognized parenting and pregnancy expert, author, journalist, speaker, parenting coach, and mom of four with over twenty-five years experience in the field. Sharon reaches hundreds of thousands of new and expectant parents with her popular parenting and pregnancy guidance on social media, parenting coaching, digital resources, and parenting courses. Sharon's social media has been called one of the "Most Educational IG Accounts" for new parents and one of the "Best Instagram Accounts for New Moms." Sharon is the author of Bite-Sized Parenting- Your Baby's First Year and was previously with the What to Expect book series. Sharon's writing and guidance have also been widely published online and in numerous publications including WhatToExpect.com, EverydayHealth.com, Parenting Magazine, BabyTalk Magazine, The Washington Post, and other publications. She was also the executive producer of an educational video series at the Yale University Child Study Center.