The Fussy Baby Book
William Sears and Martha Sears
1996
This book offers guidance for parents of high-need infants and toddlers, providing strategies to soothe and understand fussy behaviors. Drawing from their pediatric experience and personal parenting journey, the Sears present insights into the unique challenges and rewards of raising a high-need child, emphasizing responsive and intuitive parenting.
Why It’s Included
It aligns with our values by promoting a gentle, attachment-based approach to parenting, encouraging parents to trust their instincts and respond to their child's individual needs, fostering a strong parent-child bond.
Who It’s For
Parents and caregivers of infants and toddlers who exhibit intense, demanding behaviors, seeking compassionate strategies to support their child's emotional and developmental needs.
“This book may as well have had my third child featured on the cover, so well did it explain my experience with his “high needs” baby, as Sears so well described them. This book became my rock as I lived with a baby who could not be put down, who cried for no apparent reason and who was not compatible with being the youngest of three in a busy family. This book affirmed I was not doing anything wrong and there was nothing wrong with him.
Thirty years later, it still reminds me of those first six months.”
