What To Expect The 1st Year - 3rd Edition

What to Expect the 1st Year (3rd Edition) is a comprehensive, practical, month-by-month guide to the first year with a new baby. Fully revised and updated throughout, it sets out to explain what parents need to know in the early months, including the questions and worries that often arise.

From the author of the bestselling What to Expect series, with 40 million copies sold worldwide, this edition adds new and updated coverage across infant care. It includes guidance on buying for baby, baby-care fundamentals, feeding at different stages, and key development and sleep information, alongside research and medical advice. The book is organised more intuitively than previous editions and includes numerous Q&A sections, practical tips and first-aid guides.

Key details

• Third edition
• Fully revised and updated throughout
• Month-by-month guide to the first year with a new baby
• Includes charts for development stages and sleeping habits
• Includes Q&A sections, practical tips and first-aid guides
• Organised more intuitively than earlier editions

Synopsis

This guide covers infant care across the first year, including an all-new chapter on buying for baby and navigating baby products, nursery items and gear. It also addresses baby-care fundamentals such as crib and sleep safety and vitamin supplements, plus feeding for every age and stage, with tips on breastfeeding, preparing homemade baby food and current recommendations on starting solids.

Further sections include charts for development and sleep, sleep strategies, research on the impact of screen time, and up-to-date medical advice on vaccines, illnesses, SIDS and safety. Dozens of Q&A features and practical advice range from bathing and understanding a baby’s crying to deciding when to return to work, with attention to the physical and emotional needs of the whole family.