ZERO TO FIVE

When you're a new parent, the miracle of life might not always feel so miraculous. Maybe your latest 2 a.m., 2:45 a.m., and 3:30 a.m. wake-up calls have left you wondering how “sleep like a baby” ever became a figure of speech—and what the options are for restoring your sanity. Or your child just left bite marks on someone, and you're wondering how to handle it.

First-time mom Tracy Cutchlow knows what you're going through. In Zero to Five: 70 Essential Parenting Tips According to Science (and What I've Learned So Far), she takes dozens of parenting tips based on scientific research and distills them into something you can easily digest during one of your two-minute-long breaks in the day. The pages are beautifully illustrated by award-winning photojournalist Betty Udesen.

Whether you read the book front to back or jump from page to page, Zero to Five will help you make the best of the tantrums (yours and baby's), moments of pure joy, and other surprises along the totally-worth-it journey of parenting.

Tracy Cutchlow was the editor of the national bestsellers Brain Rules and Brain Rules for Baby. She also served as managing editor for Modernist Cuisine at Home. Prior to that, she was an award-winning journalist at The Seattle Times.