From an international expert on infant-parent communication, a rich and accessible gift book on baby "language," gorgeously illustrated with forty black-and-white photographs.
Through intimate access to babies and their families, Dr. Kevin Nugent and acclaimed photographer Abelardo Morell capture the amazingly precocious communications strategies babies demonstrate from the moment they are born.
Your Baby Is Speaking to You illustrates the full range of behaviors--early smiling to startling, feeding to sleeping, listening to your voice and recognizing your face. The newest research--including information on subtle and fleeting behaviors not seen or explained in any other book--illuminates the meaning of the things babies do that concern and delight new parents:
- the language of yawning
- the rich range of cries, and how to understand their meanings
- baby's earliest "sleep smiles" and sleep states, and what they signify.
Your Baby Is Speaking To You delivers the information parents crave in gentle, accessible style while giving parents the confidence they need to respond to their own baby's way of communicating during the very first astonishing days and the months beyond.
"In this gorgeous book on early infancy, physician Nugent and photographer Morell provide a stunning layout combined with rich, graceful text... This is, quite simply, a beautiful and elegant book, appropriate for anyone who has ever loved, or wants to love, a baby." -- Library Journal, starred review --
Table of Contents:
Contents
Introduction ix
Sleeping, Crying, Eating
The Sleeping Baby 2
Deep Sleep 4
Light Sleep 6
The Full Cry 8
Fussing 10
The Search Response 12
Feeding 14
The Amazing Newborn
The Fencer Response 18
Hand to Mouth 20
The Sleep Smile 22
First Steps 24
Hands 26
Pre-Reaching 28
The Smile of Discovery 30
Crawling 32
Feet 34
Yawning 36
Your Baby's Senses
Responding to Sounds 40
Visual Exploration 42
Touch 44
Cuddliness 46
The Not Very Cuddly Baby 48
Settling In
Startles 52
Drowsiness 54
Overstimulation 56
Signs of Distress 58
Soothability 60
The Not Easily Settled Baby 62
The Social Newborn
Looking into Your Eyes 66
Feeding and Communication 68
The Power of Your Voice 70
Imitation 72
Learning 74
Temperament 76
The Social Smile 78
The Growing Baby, The Bigger World
Reaching Out 82
Exploring 84
Empathy 86
Learning to Love 88
Parent and Baby and
the Lifelong Bond 91
Author's Note 101
Photograher's Note 105
Kevin Nugent, Ph.D., is director of the Brazelton Institute at Children's Hospital, Boston, where he has led studies of newborn infants and early parent-child relations for over three decades. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Harvard Medical School. With T. Berry Brazelton, he developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale, used in hospitals around the world. Nugent and colleagues also created the Newborn Behavioral Observations system, designed to help parents understand their baby's behavior.
Harper Paperbacks
Pub Date: January 13, 2011
0.55" H x 9.0" L x 9.0" W
128 pages
hardcover