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Dr. Bill & Martha Sears

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Dr. Bill & Martha Sears

William Sears, one of America’s most respected pediatricians, and his wife, Martha, a registered nurse and veteran childbirth educator, have been counseling parents for more than 20 years and have collaborated on more than 12 books on parenting, including The Baby Book and Parenting the Fussy Baby and the High-Need Child.

William Sears, M.D., has been a pediatrician for 20 years. He received his pediatric training at Harvard Medical School’s Children’s Hospital in Boston and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the largest children’s hospital in the world. “Dr. Bill,” as his young patients call him, has been a guest on over 100 television programs and is a medical and parenting consultant to several national magazines, including Redbook, Baby Talk, and PARENTING.

In addition to the titles she’s co-authored with her husband, Martha Sears is a certified lactation consultant, La Leche League leader, and director of the Breastfeeding Center in San Clemente, California. She’s also a popular speaker and media guest, and until recently, she cohosted the weekly radio program, “Ask About Your Baby.”

The Searses are the parents of eight children: “When you say eight children, people conjure up eight little heads bobbing along,” says Martha, “but they’ve been spaced well enough that we’ve never really felt the crunch — well, OK, there have been moments.”

Their kids — ages 4 to 29 — represent the gamut of the parenting experience: boys and girls, one child with Down syndrome, and one who’s adopted. The two eldest are studying to be pediatricians, just like Dad. They’re also the grandparents of three.

Martha Sears spends a great deal of time answering letters and phone calls from parents all over the country, and she is especially eager to lend a helping hand via the Internet. “We’ve reached a lot of people one-on-one and that’s great, but it expends a lot of time and energy that only one person can reap from,” she says. When our e-mail responses can be read — and our live chats give a chance for some back-and-forth dialogue — it will help so many more people.”

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