After Dr. Linda F. Palmer gave birth to her son in 1995 she found herself having to deal with his severe health complications and was astounded by the lack of accurate or helpful information from doctors or books. So Dr. Palmer dug into the scientific and medical research herself and discovered huge conflicts between what’s found scientifically and what’s standard protocol in pediatric offices. That research also led to the writing of a book called Baby Matters that Dr. Palmer initially published through a small press and then later self-published, selling more than 7,000 copies along the way.

The book garnered rave reviews, with people such as Katie Allison Granju, author of Attachment Parenting (Atria) calling the book:

“An instant classic. A must-read for all parents. Dr. Palmer’s book is the best book on the hard science behind attachment parenting that I’ve ever read. I plan to make it a baby give for every pregnant friend. I wish I had read this book before I became a mother. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It’s the most exciting new book on parenting that I’ve read in a number of years.”

Baby Matters provides parents with solid scientific evidence that supports natural parenting practices, rebuts cry-it-out parenting and the frequent usage of various drugs and vaccinations in children, reveals common (yet seldom diagnosed) food intolerance symptoms – even foods from mom’s diet – and tells parents how to treat them. The book also discloses the real causes of ear infections, colic, reflux, ADHD & SIDS, and describes exactly how breastfeeding and formula feeding can produce vastly different mental and physical health outcomes for a baby. Already a favorite among lactation consultants, Baby Matters is one of the most powerfully persuasive and informative “why-to” healthy parenting books to date.

We’ve just resold the rights to re-publish the book to SourceBooks, Inc., and a new edition of the book will be published in Fall 2009 under the title, The Baby Bond: The New Science Behind What’s Really Important When Caring for Your Baby. Congratulations(!) go out to Linda on the sale of the book, along with our thanks and best wishes as she continues in her mission to provide parents with the best information possible in caring for our children.