Your Baby is Speaking to You

Your Baby Is Speaking to You: A visual Guide to the Amazing Behaviors of Your Newborn and Growing Baby

by Kevin Nugent with photos by Abelardo Morell, Published by

Houghton Mifflin, 2011

“No other book so beautifully captures and decodes the way babies ‘speak’ to us. A new parent classic”

T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.

From an international expert on infant-parent communication, Your Baby Is Speaking To You is destined to become a parenting classic. Through intimate access to babies and their families, Dr. Kevin Nugent and acclaimed photographer Abelardo Morell capture the amazingly precocious communications strategies babies demonstrate from the moment they are born. (From the publisher’s blurb).

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Your Baby Is Speaking to You illustrates the full range of behaviors—early smiling to startling, feeding to sleeping, listening to your voice and recognizing your face. The newest research—including information on subtle and fleeting behaviors not seen or explained in any other book—illuminates the meaning of the things babies do that concern and delight new parents – the language of yawning – the rich range of cries, and how to understand their meanings – baby’s earliest “sleep smiles” and sleep states, and what they signify

Your Baby Is Speaking To You delivers the information parents crave in gentle, accessible style while giving parents the confidence they need to respond to their own baby’s way of communicating during the very first astonishing days and the months beyond.

Marshall Klaus, MD and Phyllis Klaus, MFT, Co- authors: Your Amazing Newborn, Bonding and the Doula Book write:

“This is a wonderful book. With his vast experience working with mothers and their babies,

Dr. Kevin Nugent has captured with exquisite sensitivity the myriad of behaviors of the human infant. With the beautiful pictures of Abelardo Morell and the detailed explanation and poetic descriptions of Dr. Nugent, the world of the baby makes sense and becomes delightfully available for parents to discover”.