This is a new eighth edition of the handbook for parents and all those who work with children by the renowned Croatian pediatrician and associates. The authors deal in a reader friendly way with basic issues related to the care, upbringing and growth of children from birth to the beginning of school. The chapters include a range of advice and answers to parents’ dilemmas (how to talk to an infant, practical advice about child care, how to be a good parent, how to play with children, how to choose toys, how to fight fears and stress, when and how to go on a summer holiday, how to check the development of hearing and speech, etc.).
• Exercise before and after birth
• The baby has arrived, and how to go on from there
• Care and diet of the infant and child
• How to communicate with your child at different ages
• Baby fitness
• Advice for (in) experienced parents
• Separation from the child
• Play with your children
• What to focus on when selecting toys
• How to become an even better parent
• What children are afraid of
• How to fight fears and stress
• How to check the regular development of hearing and speech
• When to vaccinate a child and what vaccine to chose
• What to do when a child develops diarrhea, fever and vomiting
• How and when to go on a summer holiday
• What rights the social welfare system provides for mothers and children
• Car seats
• Communicating with an infant: massage and baby fitness
• Brain development – inheritance, love and care in the early development of the brain
• Chickenpox
• We are starting school
• Why a child in hospital needs the parent?
• It is good to know – patients’ rights
• Teeth and tooth hygiene
• FIRST AID
• First aid in case of suffocation, CPR
• The effect of stress
• The effect of diet
• How to avoid respiratory diseases?
• Everything there is to know about vaccination – Vaccination against rotavirus
• It is good to know – patients’ rights
• Travel and holidays
– Apgar score
– the importance of vitamin D
– respiratory infections in children
– coughs in childhood
– motor development of a child
– potty training
– Omega-3 fatty acids in pregnancy and during breastfeeding
– Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and brain development
– fostering speech and language development
– streptococcal angina and scarlet fever
– lice and nits
– amendments to the legislation and to the rights of pregnant women and parents with regard to the social welfare system
Book title: The First Years – Why They Are Important (8th expanded edition)
Number of pages: 411
• Language:Croatian
• Date of publication:27 January 2014
• Year of publication: 2014
• Cover: Hardback
• ISBN/EAN: 9789532323658
• Dimensions: 19 x 13 cm
• Publisher: Udžbenik.hr
• Author: Milivoj Jovančević