Diane has done a wonderful job crossing the barriers of a professional text to a parental resource. Unlike current popular parent resources, this book gives insight from a wider scope of professionals who work in the field of development including speech, OT and PT rather than relying on text book facts from physicians alone. Not only does it give more in depth developmental milestones it helps parents understand what they can do to help , if their child has some delays. It will help parents catch a problem, before it becomes a real issue. Topics such as feeding tools, and pacifiers are left to fact , in relation to speech development as opposed to just psycho-social advice. Parents can now understand why it is important to shift from bottle to cup drinking, or how positioning an infant with GERD can really help. It is also the best resource I have found as a therapist to reference developmental norms in terms of feeding and speech skills. I am hoping that pediatricians will use this source with their patients and predict this will soon be a household standard ! Buy it for every pregnant / new mom you know !!!!!!!!