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The 1001 Healthy Baby Answers: Pediatricians’ Answers to All the Questions You Didn’t Know to Ask would be a helpful reference to own, especially for first time parents. The book contains essays by pediatric specialists on a wide array of childhood conditions, common and uncommon, including what the condition looks like, when you need to see a doctor, what potential complications or interactions are, and when you need to go back to the doctor if you’ve already been.
I like the idea of giving answers to questions you might not have thought to ask during an initial diagnosis, especially since I have the tendency to get home and hop on the internet and scare myself with contradictory and unfootnoted information. This book is helpful because the authors are all credentialed.
That said, if you’re looking for scientific opinions on controversial issues such as vaccinations or chicken pox or whatnot, you’re not going to find it in this volume. If you’re a crunchy mama, this might not be your book. On the other hand, even those of us with some tendencies toward natural solutions can benefit from knowing both sides of the story, and I don’t think middle-of-the-road medical opinion should be discounted entirely.
The 1001 Healthy Baby Answers will take a lot of the guesswork out of childhood illnesses, and might save you money if it helps you decide you can wait until office hours rather than hitting the ER at 2am, or if it helps you decide you don’t need to take your child for a sick baby visit at the pediatrician over a set of symptoms. I think this book would make a great baby shower gift or addition to the library of a new parent.
On that note, the publisher has graciously offered to give away a copy of The 1001 Healthy Baby Answers
to a reader of A Spirited Mind.
To enter leave a comment on this post, and for an additional entry become a fan of A Spirited mind on Facebook and then come back and leave another comment letting me know you did.
The giveaway will be open until Friday September 3 at 9pm EST and the winner will be announced in a separate post on Saturday September 4.
Disclosure: The publisher sent me a review copy of this book, but I was not compensated for the review in any other way. This post contains affiliate links.
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Sounds interesting to look through and either keep as a reference or pass along to a friend–thanks!
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This sounds like an awesome book to read.
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Sounds interesting, and always good to read up on potential issues ahead of time so you’re prepared when something happens (in addition to actually having the reference on hand).
Always nice to have a reference for all the strange things that happen during childhood!
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Just found out one of my co-workers is expecting. This book would be an great shower gift and would prove helpful to first time parents.
This would be great to help with my infant!
I can never have too many medical reference books! this sounds like a useful one to have on hand.
I have friends who are becoming foster to adopt parents. This would be GREAT to give them!
I would love this book. I would think my baby brain would be gone 11 months after giving birth, but I always forget to ask the pediatrician my questions as the shots are so traumatizing for baby girl!
Medical type books are my favorite reading genre… I am slowly building a little ‘library’ of reference books like this. Sounds like a good one!
This looks like a great book to check out.
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This looks like a great book!
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This sounds like a helpful tool for all those things that just pop up.
I would love to win this book as a gift for my friend who is due in two weeks.
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My sister is currently pregnant and this would be a great gift for her!
As a first time mom, this book would be so wonderful to win!
Sounds like this would be helpful!
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I’d love to win this! Thanks for the chance!
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Looks like a great reference for moms with little kids
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