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Babies Today Book Review

Diary of a Baby: What Your Child Sees, Feels, and Experiences

By Daniel Stern

What new mother hasn't wished to get inside her baby's head for just one moment? To know what those beautiful eyes are seeing, what makes those lips quiver and what prompts that first smile – we'd all love to understand what our babies are thinking. In Diary of a Baby: What Your Child Sees, Feels, and Experiences, Daniel N. Stern takes us one step close to understanding the mind of the infant.

For more than 20 years, Stern has practiced psychiatry and conducted extensive research into infant-parent relationships. It was through observing his own five children that Stern began imagining the world as babies experience it. Beginning with actual events from his own children's lives and branching out into imagined experiences, Stern created Joey's diary.

Joey's diary begins at age 6 weeks. Stern begins by presenting a first-person account of the infant experiencing a patch of sunlight on the wall in his nursery, then steps back to place the events in perspective in our own "adult" world. When you read Joey's description of his hunger and experience with him the relief when he is nursed, your own infant's cries begin to make sense. This is emotion in its rawest form; a fascinating journey into a world we once believed would remain unexplored forever.