William Sears
Pediatrician and parenting author
William Sears, known as Dr. Bill, is an American pediatrician who writes parenting books. He is best known for The Baby Book and for his work on attachment parenting.
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American Born 1939 in Alton, United States
About William Sears
William Sears was born in 1939 and trained in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital and at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He practiced as a pediatrician for more than thirty years and has written or co-written many books on parenting. Sears is a supporter of attachment parenting, and The Baby Book is the work he is most closely linked with. He advocates breastfeeding, co-sleeping and babywearing. He and his wife Martha, a registered nurse, are the parents of eight children.