Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby's First Years

**Not every parenting journey looks alike. In this best-selling reference guide, the parents and childcare experts at Mayo Clinic offer a trusted manual on expected-and not so expected-developments that can occur during your baby's first years. Updated and Revised 2nd edition.** While new and experienced parents alike find that every baby brings its own set of challenges, the *Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby's First Years* offers informative guidance on standard childcare practices, like proper nutrition, indoor and outdoor safety, diapers and toilet training, comforting a fussy baby, and more. However, more dilemmas face modern-day parents than ever before. This revised reference guide also gives essential-and actually attainable-advice for a new generation of parents, one that faces challenges like single parenthood, work-life balance, delayed child growth and development, and the potential diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and other newborn conditions. *Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby's First Years* combines everything you need to know about your baby's first three years in an easy-to-read, convenient guide you can keep and reference throughout every stage of your child's first years. With a detailed, month-to-month calendar, learn what to expect of your baby's growth and development during the first 36 months of its life, and what steps you can take to ensure a foundation of healthy growth and development. While there is no built-in instruction manual for raising a child, *Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby's First Years* offers expert advice on everything you may need to know about caring for your little one.