Surviving Infancy

By Surviving Infancy, LLC
Price $29.95
Age 0-3 yrs.

As I watched Surviving Infancy, a thorough and enjoyable video that covers 36 topics essential to parenting children through their first few years, I was struck by how relevant the material is. And not just some of it. All of it. When my daughter was young, my wife and I encountered every concern and situation delved into in this video. I vividly recall the barrage of anxiety-producing occurrences that one little baby girl was able to send our way - inconsolable crying, problems breastfeeding, car and home safety issues, ear infections (oh, the ear infections!), flips, falls, and head bangs when she was a toddler, emergency room visits. The list goes on. And at the time, in the thick of it, it seemed as though it would never end, the hard parts anyway. The beauty of this video, presented warmly and naturally by two female Emergency Medicine physicians and educators, is not just that it provides practical knowledge essential to increasing your child's safety, but that it also gives you, the parent, some much needed perspective. Knowing what to expect and having confidence in how to react takes a great deal of the anxiety out of parenting. And the good doctors are not wishy-washy. Much of the presentation deals with specifics - do this, don't do that - music to a parent's ears. The video is broken up into 36 practical segments that fly by while providing invaluable information. It is available in DVD format (29.95) or as streaming video (24.95).