The Mommy MD Guide to Your Baby's First Year ─ Tips That 70 Doctors Who Are Also Mothers Use During Their Babies' First Year

The Mommy MD Guide to Your Baby's First Year is filled with tips and advice from 70 Mommy MD Guides— doctors who are also mothers. They're experts, squared! Combined, they draw from hundreds of years of experience as physicians, and among them, they have 160 children! The Mommy MD Guide to Your Baby's First Year offers tips on both the challenges and the celebrations of a baby's first year. You'll discover how Mommy MD Guides made it through challenges such as breastfeeding, getting the baby to sleep, and coping with stress. You'll also learn how they enjoyed wonderful celebrations of a baby's first year, such as introducing the baby to their family and friends, having playdates, and celebrating their babies' first birthdays.This book is a reassuring look at a baby's first year that's filled with practical, actionable tips that work.After all, if a physician juggling a busy practice and a hectic home life or a resident working 110 hours a week used a tip, no doubt it worked. And if it worked for her, it'll likely work for you too.The book is divided into 12 chapters, one for each month of the baby's first year. Each chapter opens with a “Your Baby This Month” section, which details his or her development over the next month, and is filled with tips about the topics particular to that month. In addition to more than 900 tips, the book also features the following three types of sidebars: When to Call Your Doctor sidebars offer critical information about when to seek medical help.Mommy MD Guides–Recommended Product sidebars feature products that Mommy MD Guides found invaluable during their babies' first year, including cost and availability information.MomMy Time sidebars suggest ways for moms to relax, de-stress, and enjoy their baby's first year.The Mommy MD Guide to Your Baby's First Year is the second book in the Mommy MD Guides series.

Rallie McAllister, MD, MPH, is cofounder of Momosa Publishing LLC, publisher of MommyMDGuides.com and the Mommy MD Guides book series. She is a board-certified family physician and a nationally recognized health expert. Her nationally syndicated newspaper column, Your Health, appeared in more than 30 newspapers in the United States and Canada and was read by more than a million people each week. Dr. McAllister has been the featured medical expert on more than 100 radio and television shows. A dynamic public speaker, she educates and entertains audiences from coast to coast with her upbeat, down-to-earth delivery of the latest health news. She has three sons.Jennifer Bright Reich is cofounder of Momosa Publishing LLC, publisher of MommyMDGuides.com and the Mommy MD Guides book series. She's a writer and editor with more than 15 years of publishing experience. She has contributed to more than 150 books and published more than 100 magazine and newspaper articles. She proudly served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army for four years, then worked for seven years on staff at Rodale Inc. before launching her own editorial services business, Bright Communications LLC, in 2004. She has two sons.