Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1. Welcome to the Club
2. When Can He Play Ball? Infant and Child Development
3. Infant Feeding for the Mammary-Challenged: What Your Baby Will Eat and When
4. The Pit Crew: If You Can Change the Oil…
5. Crying Foul: Why Is My Baby Crying and When Will It Stop?
6. That Wasn’t There Yesterday: Colors, Spots, Bumps, and Rashes
7. A Good Shot: Vaccines and Common Sense
8. The Big Sleep: Helping Your Child Learn to Sleep, Over and Over
9. The Air Force: Congestion, Coughing, and Wheezing in Babies
10. Eye, Captain: Eye Boogers, the Red Eye, and When to Worry
11. Keep It Down: Infant Spitting Up and Vomiting
12. Heating and Cooling: Fevers and What to Do About Them
13. Ear, Ear: How to Tell if Your Child Has an Ear Infection and What to Do About It
14. Food Fight: Why Your Toddler Won’t Eat Anything
15. It’s My Potty: When Changing Diapers Just Isn’t Fun Anymore
16. Time-out: Rules of the Game
17. Snot Funny: Colds, Allergies, Sinusitis, and Who Nose What Else
18. How Much Does It Cough? When Breathing Doesn’t Come Easy
19. I Don’t Feel So Good: Vomiting, Diarrhea, and Bellyaches
20. Water, Water Everywhere: Is This Wetting Normal?
21. Hard to Swallow: The Sore Throat
22. What’s the Heading? Headaches and When to Worry
23. Making the Grade: When to Worry About ADHD
24. Electronica: Television, Computers, Video Games, and Mobile Phones
25. Uh, So, It’s Like This: Talking to Your Children About Sexual Development
26. It’s Complicated: Dealing With Nontraditional Parenting Relationships
