More recently, we have been exploring how these books are actually used and the impact they have on baby care. Speaking to 354 mothers with a baby aged 0–12 months old, we found that several ...

The market is pretty much choking on baby care books today. The a phenomenon seemed to launch in the 1950s with Dr. Benjamin Spock's Baby and Child Care. While his child-rearing advice reached the ...

Before Spock’s 1946 book, a strict approach dominated ... As the U.S. Department of Labor observed in an “Infant Care” pamphlet in 1929, “a baby should learn that such habitual crying ...

the Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, countless self-proclaimed experts have purported incredible solutions for infant sleep, feeding and care. Generations of parents have turned to books ...

And she never imagined she would still be so closely connected to it. Like babies, baby care books need to be attended to and checked regularly. The rudimentary topics do not change, but ...

More recently, we have been exploring how these books are actually used and the impact they have on baby care. Speaking to 354 mothers with a baby aged 0–12 months old, we found that several ...