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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The New Parent's Pocket Companion: Sleep, Feeding, Crying, Fevers & Getting Help - What to Do When It Matters

The New Parent's Pocket Companion: Sleep, Feeding, Crying, Fevers & Getting Help - What to Do When It Matters

Cole, Wrenna

Paperback

Baby CareGeneral Parenting

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ISBN13: 9798187381203
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.09
Height: 0.06 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The list of things that truly matter is short. Every parenting shelf sells the same four-hundred-page promise: read all of this, and you'll be ready. Nobody with a newborn has ever read all of that. What a new parent actually needs - at 2 a.m., one-handed, scared - is the short version: which dangers are real, which fears are noise, and what the small right moves are. This is that book. Written to be read in an evening and kept on the nightstand for the year you'll need it: The safe sleep rules that are truly non-negotiable - the ABCs, what belongs in the crib (almost nothing), and the 3 a.m. couch rule every exhausted parent should decide in advance. More sleep without buying anything. Days bright, nights boring, real shifts instead of shared misery - and why sleeping through the night is a myth on a timeline. Fed is the goal. Breast, bottle, or both - the guilt-free version, the bottle-safety rules that actually matter, and spit-up vs. the phone call. The fever number that means right now. The under-3-months rule every parent must know, and the complete call-the-doctor list for everything else - won't eat, too sleepy, too dry, breathing that looks like work. The dangerous minute nobody warns you about. Why crying peaks, what colic really means, and the ten-minute rule that keeps everyone safe when the crying is winning. The car seat, the bath, and the house - rear-facing done right, the water rule with no exceptions, and the one class worth taking before you need it. The parents are patients too. Baby blues vs. postpartum depression and anxiety - in mothers and partners - the signs, the two phone lines to know, and why calling is strength. Plus the visitor rules you're allowed to have, the decisions that feel huge and aren't, what to do when something goes wrong (in the right order), and a numbers page to fill in and stick on the fridge. No philosophy wars. No judgment. No medication doses - those belong to your pediatrician, and this book says so on every page where it matters. You will be more tired than you've ever been, and more capable than you currently believe. This book fits in a pocket. That is the entire point.

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