The passionate attachment between parents and babies, as well as the inevita-

ble anxieties, begins weli before birth. Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, whom Time mag-

azine calls "the nation's preeminent baby doctor," shows how this turmoil

prepares parents for the arrival of the child and how to survive and enjoy

those important early months when a new relationship begins and a new

family is born.

As the cornerstone of his classic trilogy,, which continues with Infants andMoth-

ers and Toddlers and Parents, this revised and up-to-date edition of On Becoming a

Family supports parents through pregnancy, birth, and the first few months. Dr.

Brazelton examines the great adjustments parents must make in their relation-

ships with each other and with the new baby; the gradual (not instant) process

of bonding; the normal competition between parents and between parents and

caregivers; and the effects on all this of Caesarean section, premature birth, sin-

gle parenthood, and a child born with a potential disability. This edition also

includes astounding new insight into the abilities of the newborn, and an

entirely new chapte= on attachment in adoptive families.

"A fascinating process and a fascinating book."

-- Benjamin Spock, M.D

"All hospitals should give this book to...parents as a normal part of good medi-

cal practice."

- Daniel Stern. M.D., Cornell University Medical Center-New York Hospital

T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D., is the founder of the Child Development Unit at

Boston Children's Hospital and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus at Har-

vard Medical School.