25 Things Every New Mother Should Know

This beautiful, stylish, four-color book is a revision of the classic by Martha and William Sears, best-selling authors and America’s foremost childcare experts. It contains important, timeless advice for new mothers which reflects the Sears’s “attachment parenting” philosophy—a natural, instinctive style of parenting. It addresses all the issues—practical, emotional, and philosophical—that a new mother faces every day. Dr. Sears’s suggestions appear throughout in boxes, while the main text of the book reflects the straightforward tone of Martha Sears, an experienced mother of eight.

Authors of numerous popular books on baby care, the Searses have distilled the wisdom they’ve gleaned over the years into a small, clear-headed volume of advice. This guide, covering such matters as feeding methods, sleeping arrangements, crying (the baby’s and the mother’s), the father’s role, and family support, shows mothers that, although baby care takes time and devotion, it needn’t be lonely or exhausting.