What Baby Needs: A Book Review
My rating: 
4.5 out of 5.
Description: Hardcover children’s book published in 2001.
Subject: Being a big brother or sister.
Appropriate age of child: 3 and up.
Price: List price U.S. $12.99.
Authors: William Sears, M.D., Martha Sears, R.N. and Christie Watts Kelly with illustrator Renee Andriani
What Baby Needs is a companion book to Baby on the Way. Both are excellent books and will appeal greatly to parents who practice attachment parenting. If you’re looking for a book to help your child prepare to become a big brother or sister, personally I’d choose Baby on the Way with its discussion of pregnancy and birth and its focus on how the big brother or sister can participate in the process. If you’d prefer a book that didn’t feature pregnancy and birth, then What Baby Needs is a great choice.
As the title implies, What Baby Needs focuses primarily on the new baby (almost to the point of excess–on the 25 pages that contain text I counted 36 uses of the words “baby” and “babies”).
On the nursing front, the book is unabashedly pro-breastfeeding.
Babies have tiny tummies that like one thing best–their mommies’ milk.
Two illustrations show the mommy nursing the newborn, and one illustration shows the daddy feeding the older infant a bottle of expressed breast milk. Both my two-year-old and my four-and-a-half-year-old enjoy this book and have asked for me to read it to them several times over the past few days. I highly recommend What Baby Needs (and/or Baby on the Way) for every growing family.
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