Providing an easy-to-follow method to care for a baby during the first year, The Babysense Secret explains how to read a baby's body language and signals, so that parents can know how their baby is feeling and what he/she wants. With handy at-a-glance charts that show parents what to do in the middle of the night when their baby is crying inconsolably, flow diagrams to determine exactly what their baby is trying to tell them, and the best methods to help, The Babysense Secrethelps parents easily identify how their baby is feeling and how best to respond.

The Babysense Secret

Parenting & Relationships

Faure, Megan

Family Relationships

Listen! Your baby is telling you something… After nine peaceful months in the womb, the world can be an overwhelming place for a newborn. Like a little sponge, your child will soak in every bit of sensory stimulation presented, whether he wants to or not—everything from the soft cotton of your shirt to the bright lights in the grocery store. Overload, when it happens, means a fussy baby—but in this revolutionary book, occupational therapist Megan Faure and nursing specialist Ann Richardson explain how you can help your newborn cope with his new environment. 
This extraordinary guide to your baby’s developing nervous system and his sensory world explains in down-to-earth language how parents can: 
Tune in to a baby’s cries and other signals 
Respond to a baby’s needs 
Prevent colicky late-day crying 
Provide the right stimulation—at the right time 
Offer positive sensory experiences early on Offering age-appropriate advice on sleeping, eating, and early learning, as well as the basic sensory principles, Baby Sense is the perfect tool for every parent who has every wondered why a baby is crying—and how to soothe him.

Baby Sense

Richardson, Ann

Parenting

Citadel Pr

Are you suffering from sleep deprivation because your baby will just not sleep through the night? Have you tried everything and reached the end of your tether? This book offers simple, sensible solutions to ensure you and your baby get a good night's sleep by establishing healthy sleeping habits.

Sleep Sense: Simple Steps to a Full Night's Sleep

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Metz Press

Baby Sense has been translated into several languages and has twice won a prestigious international award (UK Practical Pre-school Awards Gold in 2008 and 2009). With 100 000 copies in print, the time has come for an update. The book's accessible tone and the focus on baby's sleep, calming and development remain in the new edition, while authors Meg Faure and Ann Richardson updated the content to reflect current research, and address questions and requests from both moms and professionals. What is new? •  Why babies are different - babies have different ways of coping with sensory information, which affects their personalities and how they respond to their new world. • How parents can help their baby maintain the calm alert state. • More information on the relationship between tiredness and crying. • Breastfeeding is discussed in much more detail. • An expanded section on colic and early infant crying with step by step responses to colic. • An updated massage section based on new theory of the different strokes. • Postnatal depression is fully updated and redefined based on current thought. • The concept of perinatal distress is introduced. The new edition of Baby Sense is sure to hold the same appeal for parents in that it offers practical solutions for the common issues of infancy. The new content will enhance the ways parents respond to their baby's sensory needs in a sense-able manner. International acclaim for Baby Sense "Sensory input is good, but babies can suffer as much from over-stimulation as from under-stimulation. Baby Sense strikes a wise and helpful balance between these extremes. It will teach you to read your baby's cues and adjust the environment and your interactions to give your child the optimal level of sensory input at every stage." Lise Eliot, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Chicago Medical School, USA Baby Sense received gold in the  UK's Practical Pre-school Awards "... easy to read and full of excellent tips ... "

The latest title in the bestselling 'Sense' series. Uncertain of what to eat in pregnancy or while breast-feeding? Challenges with breast or bottle feeding? Or just looking for practical guidelines on introducing solids? Whether you have a fussy eater or an allergic baby, Feeding Sense prepares you for the road ahead and guides you through all your baby's feeding milestones. "I have enjoyed reading this book. The authors have selected common topics of baby feeding and nutrition and have provided both a factually grounded source of scientific information as well as answers to many nagging questions that mothers may not know whom to ask." Prof. DF Wittenberg MD FCP(SA)

Feeding Sense

Megaw, Katherine

Strachan, Dr Simon

Pregnancy is a journey like no other. It is the start of a new human life. It is also the birth of a mother who, over nine months, changes in every possible way - physically, emotionally and socially. Your nutrition, wellbeing and emotions during this wonderful time play a large role in defining the rest of your baby's life. The experience must also be safe and containing for you to provide your baby with the ultimate start and shape his potential. Birth - your baby's entry into our world - is a profoundly significant moment, one you don't get to repeat. Being empowered with knowledge, understanding your choices and being active in the process will make a huge difference. Ultimately it does not matter how your baby is born; what matters is how you experience it and that it is safe. Reading Pregnancy Sense will reduce the anxiety that may stem from the unknown and help you make your choices with insight and flexibility. - Preparing for pregnancy - Birth choices - Your growing baby week by week - Your changing body week by week - A guide to birth - Premature birth - Your newborn's first days and weeks. "This is such a gently informative book about such a vital aspect of many women's lives. Well done!" Kate Christie, Midwife "I couldn't have found this book at a more fitting time. As a pregnant reader, I found it to be thorough, user-friendly and real. Most of all, it eased so many of my concerns and left me with the feeling that I will be just fine when baby arrives - exactly what every mom-to-be needs." Lisa Raleigh, media personality and wellness expert "It was wonderful to read this. It is so far from my daily life where, to be honest, we are just trying to get moms and babies to survive, but so refreshing to remember the whole spectrum of this beautiful, amazing thing called pregnancy and birth." Kate Christie, Midwife "There is no reason today, for a woman to enter her pregnancy and birth experience in a fearful and ignorant state of mind. There is a wealth of information available to prospective mothers and this book will make sure you are well informed and equipped. The authors have succeeded in covering everything you need to know as you move through the 'child bearing' stage of your life, looking at things from the developing baby's perspective as well as the mother's perspective. The information and advice contained in this book will provide you with information about many of the procedures and options that are available to you today and will go a long way to enhancing your own pregnancy and birth experience." Tina Otte, author, specialist editor of Your Pregnancy magazine

Pregnancy Sense: Your guide to a sensible pregnancy and a sensational birth

Searle, Jacky

Wood, Megan

Women's Health

Uncertain of what to eat in pregnancy or while breast-feeding? Challenges with breast- or bottlefeeding? Or just looking for practical guidelines on introducing solids? Whether you have a fussy eater or an allergic baby, Feeding sense, now fully updated with the latest research, recipes and meal plan suggestions, prepares you for the road ahead and guides you through all your baby's feeding milestones.

Feeding sense: A sensible approach to your baby's nutrition and health

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Megaw, Kath

Strachan, Simon

Special Diet

The essential guide to confident parenting in your baby's first year. Parenting experts and co-authors of the Sense-series books, Meg Faure (OT) and Ann Richardson (Registered Nurse and Midwife) bring you the updated and expanded third edition of their highly acclaimed practical guide to parenting in the first year. This book is referred to by parents everywhere as "The Baby Bible" and it's not hard to see why it has become a best-loved parenting book. Baby Sense gently and practically covers the most common concerns of parents in their baby's first year: - Why is my baby crying? - How to get my baby to sleep well - How to meet my baby's nutritional needs from breastfeeding to solids - How and when to stimulate my baby for optimal development This edition of Baby Sense is sure to hold the same appeal for parents as the revised content will enhance the ways they respond to their baby's sensory needs in a sense-able manner.

Baby sense: Understand your baby's sensory world - the key to a contented baby

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The Babysense Secret

Baby Sense

Sleep Sense: Simple Steps to a Full Night's Sleep

Baby Sense

Feeding Sense

Pregnancy Sense: Your guide to a sensible pregnancy and a sensational birth

Feeding sense: A sensible approach to your baby's nutrition and health

Baby sense: Understand your baby's sensory world - the key to a contented baby