Baby and Toddler Basics

Expert Answers to Parents' Top 150 Questions

Tanya Altmann, MD, FAAP

• Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN:
  9781610026215
• Print ISBN:
  9781610026208
• Edition: 2

This easy-to-use guide offers parents the advice they need for pressing baby and toddler health and development concerns—fast! Dr. Altmann draws on more than 20 years in practice to present answers to parents' most frequently asked questions in a convenient Q&A format. Topics covered include breastfeeding, baby care, developmental stages, first aid and injuries, sleep, vaccines, and more. Parents can dip in and out of this resource as-needed for trustworthy information, offering evidence-based answers at their fingertips and letting them skip the contradictory, misleading, and sometimes dangerous information on the internet. This new edition is fully revised and updated and includes COVID-19 information, new fever guidelines, and reflects all current American Academy of Pediatrics policy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Basic Baby Care
• 2 Breastfeeding
• 3 Formula Feeding
• 4 Beyond Bottles and Breastfeeding: Starting Solid Foods
• 5 Pooping
• 6 Stomachaches and Vomiting
• 7 Fever
• 8 Coughs, Colds, and More
• 9 Vaccines
• 10 Skin
• 11 Child Care
• 12 Ingestions, Injuries, and First Aid
• 13 Growing Up
• 14 Sleep