Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SOME THINGS DON'T MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL -- CHAPTER ONE - How Can I Best Prepare Our Child for the Birth of a New Baby? -- When to Share Your Great News With Your Child -- Preparing Your Child for Life With a New Baby -- Promoting Self-esteem for the New Big Brother or Sister -- Other Ways to Help Prepare Your Child for the Baby's Birth -- Preparing a 1-Year-Old Child for a New Baby -- Preparing Your Older Child or Teenager -- When the New Baby Arrives -- Preparing Your Pet for a New Baby -- Sharing Age-Appropriate Reproductive Information -- "The Birds & the Bees" Books -- CHAPTER TWO - How Can I Help Our Child Adjust to My Absence While I'm in the Hospital? -- Preparing Your Child for Your Hospital Stay -- Before You Go to the Hospital -- Shortly Before the Baby is Due -- When You're in the Hospital -- When Your Child Visits You at the Hospital -- Coming Home -- Gender Baby Blues -- CHAPTER THREE - What If We Want Our Child to Be Present at the Birth of the Baby? -- Preparing a Child to be Present at the Birth -- In the Birthing Room -- The Birth Doula and the Second Baby -- CHAPTER FOUR - How Can I Keep Our Older Child from Feeling Left Out? -- A Gift for the Older Sibling -- Within the Family -- Teaching How to Hold A Baby -- While You're Feeding the Baby -- Nursing -- Bottle-Feeding -- When Visitors Come -- The Shared Room -- Childproofing the Shared Room -- A Sibling Library -- CHAPTER FIVE - How can I Get Our Jealous Older Child to Accept (or even like!) ... -- Jealousy in a Child 2 or Under -- Jealousy in a 3-Year- Old -- Jealousy in a 4- or 5-Year-Old -- Jealousy in School-Age Children -- Jealousy in Preteens and Teens -- Helping Children Handle Their Feelings of Jealousy -- Second-Stage Jealousy: When the Baby Becomes Mobile -- Regression in Young Children.

Helping Your Child Handle Anger -- "Big Kids" Can Help -- Playing With the Baby -- Teaching Gentleness -- How to Keep Kids Close -- CHAPTER SIX - How Can I Help Our Child Handle Special Circumstances? -- If You're Adopting a Baby -- If the New Baby is a Half-Sibling -- If You're Having Two (or More) -- If Your Baby is Ill or Premature -- If You Have a Miscarriage or Your Newborn Dies -- CHAPTER SEVEN - And What About Me? -- Preparing Yourself for Some Changes in Lifestyle -- Before Delivery Details -- The Postpartum Doula -- Telling Your Boss You're Pregnant -- Preparing to Go Back to Work -- Emotional Adjustments -- And What About a Third Child? -- Index -- Practical Books for Today's Parent by VickiLansky -- Copyright Page.