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Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle: A Journey Through Infancy
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Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle: A Journey Through Infancy Paperback - 2014

by Nicholas Day

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Science, history, culture, and parenthood combine to create an elegant and engaging exploration of how babies encounter the world. Like most new parents, Day found himself puzzling over the endless mysteries of his infant son and decided to write a book that would speak to curious parents like him.

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A dynamic new story about how babies make their way in the world--and how grown-ups have tried to make sense of these tiny inscrutable beings.

As a new parent, Nicholas Day had some basic but confounding questions: Why does my son find the straitjacket of his swaddling blanket comforting and not terrifying? How can he never meet a developmental norm and still be OK? And when will he stop sucking my finger? So he went digging for answers. They were not what he expected.

Drawing on a wealth of perspectives--scientific, historical, cross-cultural, personal--Baby Meets World is organized around the mundane activities that dominate the life of an infant: sucking, smiling, touching, toddling. From these everyday activities, Day weaves together an account that is anything but ordinary: a fresh, surprising story, both weird and wondrous, about our first experience of the world.

Part hidden history of parenthood, part secret lives of babies, Baby Meets World steps back from the moment-to-moment chaos of babydom. It allows readers to see infancy anew in all its strangeness and splendor.

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  • Title Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle: A Journey Through Infancy
  • Author Nicholas Day
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Griffin
  • Publication date 2014-04-22
  • ISBN 9781250044815 / 1250044812
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 1 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Family / Parenting / Childbirth
  • Dewey Decimal Code 155.422

About the author

NICHOLAS DAY has been a wine salesman, a wedding cake baker, a fairground maintenance man, and a stay-at-home father. He writes about the care of children for Slate and the feeding of them for Food52. His writing has also appeared in Salon, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, and Time Out Chicago, among other publications. He lives in Chicago with his family.

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