Caring for your baby and young child

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1. r2champlooFeb 2023
   "Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5" by the American Academy of Pediatrics is a tome, but is the best practical guide for what you need to do, and what to expect, for the first few years of a child's life. Use it like a reference or manual rather than reading cover-to-cover.
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2. athenotFeb 2023
   You might want to check out the American Academy of Pediatrics' book: Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, Birth to Age 5.

   If you live in the Southeast of the US, you can get it for free at any Publix supermarket store.

   https://shop.aap.org/caring-for-your-baby-and-young-child-pa...

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3. mabboJul 2022
   I'm 4 months in with my first kid. Here's what I think matters.

   1. Organization is key. We meal plan for the week every Sunday afternoon. We both installed ToDoIst on our phones and have a specific list of tasks for every day of the week. We track our daughter's data using Huckleberry (great app) and it's helped us make sure her naps and feeding are on schedule.

   2. Weekly retrospectives for the family make a difference. Both of you will have things that didn't go well. That stress you out. That aren't working. You need to have a safe time to raise them and work together to solve the problem. For us, that's usually adding a new weekly task to one or both of our ToDoIst lists.

   3. Your relationship will suffer. You're both stressed out and lacking sleep. Forgive each other. Swallow your pride.

   4. Read the AAP book on young children. Its 800 pages but the first few chapters are what matters. The rest is mostly a reference. (American Academy Of Pediatrics - Caring for Your Baby and Young Child)

   Good luck. Its a journey.

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4. dragonwriterJul 2020
   There is a lot of, mostly unreliable, third-party documentation, but Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, Birth to Age 5 for the American Academy of Pediatrics has seemed to be a pretty good value.

   https://shop.aap.org/caring-for-your-baby-and-young-child-pa...

   Beyond that:

   You and your co-parent need to watch out for your own and each other’s physical and mental health. It’s easy to lose track of.

   Talk to your baby, as much as possible.

   Everything will change when you least expect it. Be flexible.

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5. semafourJul 2018
   For an authoritative source, you might try "Caring for your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5", by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

   https://www.amazon.com/Caring-Your-Baby-Young-Child/dp/05533...

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6. madhuprasannaJun 2015
   For early child rearing, I found "Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, 5th Edition: Birth to Age 5" by American Association of Pediatrics, very handy and simple.
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