Announcing the completely revised third edition of What to Expect the First Year. With over 10.5 million copies in print, First Year is the world’s best-selling, best-loved guide to the instructions that babies don’t come with, but should. And now, it’s better than ever. Every parent’s must-have/go-to is completely updated.
Keeping the trademark month-by-month format that allows parents to take the potentially overwhelming first year one step at a time, First Year is easier-to-read, faster-to-flip-through, and new-family-friendlier than ever?packed with even more practical tips, realistic advice, and relatable, accessible information than before. Illustrations are new, too.
Among the changes: Baby care fundamentals?crib and sleep safety, feeding, vitamin supplements?are revised to reflect the most recent guidelines. Breastfeeding gets more coverage, too, from getting started to keeping it going. Hot-button topics and trends are tackled: attachment parenting, sleep training, early potty learning (elimination communication), baby-led weaning, and green parenting (from cloth diapers to non-toxic furniture). An all-new chapter on buying for baby helps parents navigate through today’s dizzying gamut of baby products, nursery items, and gear.
Also new: tips on preparing homemade baby food, the latest recommendations on starting solids, research on the impact of screen time (TVs, tablets, apps, computers), and “For Parents” boxes that focus on mom’s and dad’s needs. Throughout, topics are organized more intuitively than ever, for the best user experience possible."
Empress Ciku Kimani-Mwaniki –
A couple or so, perhaps more, years ago, I read Gachiengo Gitau’s From the Jaws of Disaster, and was left very dissatisfied. Nothing wrong with the writing, but I felt the story had more potential, it could have been stretched more – he wrote it like he was afraid of writing, yet the story-teller in him was evident. I still enjoyed it, but he should re-write that book and give it meat. A lot of meat, because 45 pages in madharau tupu – I said what I said hehehe.
But he has redeemed himself in my eyes, with his new book, Trail of a Fugitive, which is just that, trail of a fugitive, but written from a lawyer’s angle. Gachiengo is a lawyer, and no wonder the lawyer-like language comes easy for him.
There are twists, awesome twists. Murder. Jailbreak. Robbery. Chases. Heartbroken mother. Generational curses. Conmanship upgraded.
I only had one problem – there was a character that he built up and built up and I kept expecting him, the character, to do something phenomenal. He didn’t – he just trailed (see what I did) off – it was an anti-climax. But also, I am crossing my fingers that he writes a sequel, because the book ends with a possibility of a sequel, then perhaps this character he built can do something phenomenal!
Good one, Wakili!