The Essential First Year

The outstanding new guide to parenting and pregnancy from the export who transformed the way we raise children Penelope Leach, the world-renowned authority on child development draws on her unrivaled experience and new research to help you to bring up your baby in the first year of its life. Kind, reassuring guidance on practical issues including feeding, sleeping, and crying is backed up by key new evidence on the way babies brains develop to help you understand and respond to your baby. Book jacket.