Melanie J Wilhelm Dnp

Raising Today's Baby Melanie J Wilhelm Dnp

Once upon a time, multiple generations of the same family lived under one roof, providing new parents with an (over) abundance of parenting advice. Today, new moms and dads arrive home in a cloud of exhaustion and chaos, often unsure of which blog's advice to follow or where to get answers. Author Dr. Melanie J. Wilhelm DNP, CPNP combines years of professional practice and plenty of personal experience to provide a concise, practical, and incredibly helpful guide for bringing a happy, healthy baby through the first year of life with the latest updates in this second edition. No matter how much you plan and prepare, the birth of a new baby causes plenty of stress, chaos, and exhaustion. Between trying to keep up with the demands of the baby's schedule, household chores, and your own personal needs, there's little time left to find answers to your questions about how to raise your little one. Thankfully, Dr. Melanie J Wilhelm DNP, CPNP offers a practical, engaging, and evidence-based guide to child rearing. Combining her extensive education and years of professional practice with the lessons she learned from raising her own two children, Dr. Wilhelm provides straightforward answers to the most common questions plaguing new parents today, while sharing her experiences as a mom. Don't let the stress and exhaustion of caring for an infant paralyze you and prevent you from making sound decisions. Instead, find science-based answers that have been fact-checked by pediatricians and proven to work for families of all types. Free of jargon, platitudes, and conspiracies, Raising Today's Baby answers questions about feeding, diaper duty, sleep, crying, bathing and skin care, medical care, finding balance, work options....and everything else you need to know for a baby's first year. Dr. Wilhelm is a Doctor of Nursing Practice, and a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at a pediatric practice in Norfolk, Virginia. She also serves as an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University. She is the CEO of Raising Today's Child, LLC and blogs on all things parenting at www. RaisingTodaysChild.com. Follow her at Twitter.com/Rzn2dayschild and Facebook.com/RaisingTodaysChild.