Product Description

This detailed guide tells prospective parents what they need to buy, need to borrow, and probably don't need at all in an easy-to-read-and-reference format. Written by an expert in baby retail, who spent years advising and listening to both parents and manufacturers, Baby Stuff names names in sharing an insider's secrets about which products are safest, most reliable, and most practical for a range of different lifestyles and budgets. Expert Ari Lipper has seen how virtually every baby product works in real lifenot just in one family, but in thousands. In fact, Lipper's careful eye for safety has helped manufacturers make changes in products before problems start. With chapters on everything from Product Safety Regulation to Borrowing for Baby and product sections covering the spectrum from the Layette to Carriages and Strollers to Baby Carriers, Baby Stuff provides the authoritative, calming, and credible expertise every parent craves when approaching this anxiety-ridden process. The book includes a section on safety information and tips on products throughout.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1646327 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From Library Journal
Basing his work on his experience with customers, Lipper, a manager of a baby-goods store, has written a highly usable guide with wife Joanna about the various baby products on the market. With humor, the Lippers offer advice on what and what not to buy a newborn. Categories cover the nursery, layette, carriages and strollers, car seats, and feeding equipment, among others. A section on product and safety regulations is informative and bound to educate the shopper. Products are rated as a "must have," a "might want," or a "totally optional," with price ranges and recommendations offered. The authors are neutral in their advice, declining to endorse any particular product or retail establishment. A list of manufacturers with phone numbers, a "When You'll Use It" chart, and the tips dispersed throughout enhance this neat reference source. While intended for parents-to-be, this book will benefit future "gift-giving" grandparents as well. Recommended for public libraries.?Bellinda Wise, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, N.Y.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Ingram
Featuring useful illustrations and designed for a wide range of budgets, a guide for new parents offers concise advice on what to buy, what to borrow, and what is unnecessary when a new baby arrives.

From the Publisher

What to buy, what to borrow, and what to avoid--the inside information consumer guides can't tell you...but an expert who's advised and listened to thousands of parents can!