HCPL Book Reviews

Raising Baby Green: the Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care

by Alan Greene

In this illustrated and easy-to-use guide, noted pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene, a leading voice of the green baby movement, advises parents how to make healthy green choices for pregnancy childbirth and baby care. Topics include the best baby food available, using medicines wisely, and green product recommendations.

Baby 411: Clear Answers & Smart Advice for Your Baby’s First Year

by Denise Fields and Ari Brown

This unique reference combines the wisdom of experienced parents with the solid medical advice of an award-winning pediatrician to help parents manage their baby’s first year.

The New Mom’s Survival Guide: How to Reclaim Your Body, Your Health, Your Sanity, and Your Sex Life After Having a Baby

by Jennifer Wider

In this compassionate, comprehensive guide, Dr. Jennifer Wider, a physician and mother of two small children, delivers up-to-date medical information, candid answers to a host of questions, and expert advice on a range of postpartum issues, including sex and intimacy, martial stresses and strains, losing weight safely, breastfeeding concerns and thyroid problems.

You Having a Baby: the Owner’s Manual to a Happy and Healthy Pregnancy

by Michael F. Roizen, MD and Mehmet C. Oz, MD

America’s favorite doctors take on all the questions that arise during pregnancy, including questions that are often the most important – the ones neither parent thinks to ask.

Is This a Phase? Child Development & Parent Strategies, Birth to 6 Years

by Helen F. Neville

This authoritative and practical reference covers a broad range of topics in health, behavior and human needs that every parent needs to know for their child from birth to age six. Anxious parents will find reassuring information on developmental milestones and baby behavior.