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India Press Store - Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.122
EAN: 9780345479099
ISBN: 0345479092
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2005-07-26
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: 2005-07-26
Studio: Ballantine Books
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Summary: Terrible for New Borns
Comment: Unfortunately the author never mentions that her practices and tips aren't reasonable for newborns. I would suggest to any parent that if you are going to use the methods outlined in this book that you wait until your baby is at least four months old when they are developed enough to have a scheduled routine and when their sleep habits are more predictable. Until that time, forcing a routine as she suggests, interrupts sleep and is not practical.
Overall, I think there are better books out there such as "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Baby" that cover a lot of the same parenting practices (soothing a baby, etc.) but the material includes different strategies for different ages which is much easier to follow.
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Summary: Not for high need baby
Comment: These ideas may work on the angelic baby but they just makes things worse for the high need baby. Much of what is said is counter intuitve and as it turned out for us and our high need baby counter productive. I am sorry I wasted my time reading it, and more sorry for all the weeks I attempted applying the so called EASY methodology. If what she is suggesting does not feel right, it is because it is not right.
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Summary: Another Success Story...
Comment: This book was SO helpful! I read it cover to cover and reread several sections whenever I had questions about sleep training, breast feeding, temperment tips, etc. I read this along with Suzy Giordan's 12 Hours Sleep in 12 Weeks and found both books together to be very helpful. I felt that Suzy's book helped tell you when to start sleep training and how to lengthen time between feedings best. Tracy's book really helps you zone in to the signs and symptoms of fatigue so that you can really get your baby off to bed before all hell breaks loose.
What so many parents don't understand is that the baby WANTS you to help them figure it out. They don't understand that they are getting tired and that rest fixes it.
Our now 6 month old has been sleeping through the night since 5 months old. She sleeps in her crib in her own room. We can put her down when she is sleepy but awake, turn on her music player, give her her binkie and bunny and leave the room. She settles down without fuss. She naps well, too.
We are much better parents now that we are all getting our rest.
I highly recommend this book in addition to Suzy Giordano's 12 Hours Sleep By 12 Weeks Old.
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Summary: Not Ideal for Newborns
Comment: Reading this book in the months before my son's birth gave me what I later realized was a false sense of security. Hogg's EASY system sounds so practical and logical: feed child (Eat), do an Activity with your baby, put the kid to bed while s/he's sleepy but not yet asleep (Sleep), get in some You time while the baby slumbers. By structuring your day around a series of EASY episodes you can then learn to differentiate hunger cries (which your baby should only make when s/he awakes) from other types of cries. The end result is a well-rested baby (and parent), clear communication between parent and child, and a moderately flexible routine that gives baby a sense of security. To someone completely new to parenting, this sounds absolutely foolproof and makes perfect sense.
The day after I brought my son home from the hospital I realized how useless this system was for a newborn. A baby up to 6-8 weeks is basically a stomach that needs sleep (a stomach, it turns out, that doesn't always work well and results in a lot of gas, crying, and sleeplessness). You want your new baby to feed frequently (especially if breastfeeding). There are very few "activities" a 1 week old is capable of (Hogg acknowledges this in "The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems"). And it really is natural (and even desirable) for a baby in the first few weeks of life to fall asleep directly after nursing. So much for EASY.
In addition, many new parents quickly learn (as I did) that some newborns will only fall asleep if they're basically on top of a warm body. For Hogg, the only thing worse than a mother who nurses her child to sleep is a parent who co-sleeps with her baby. I'll agree that neither may be desirable with, say, a three-year-old, but with a newborn both may be (temporarily) inevitable. A three-week-old is flat-out incapable of manipulating a parent or communicating anything beyond his or her needs. Trying to impose Hogg's system on a newborn is a fruitless exercise in self-torture. Perhaps the EASY method works for older babies, but children under 6-8 weeks will not benefit from Hogg's system.
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Summary: Excellent Book for 1st Time Mommy!
Comment: If you are a first time mom, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK! It unlocked so many baby secrets for me, and made being a parent easier. I have given this book to all my girlfriends at their showers.
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Editorial Reviews:
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“TRACY HOGG HAS GIVEN PARENTS A GREAT GIFT–the ability to develop early insight into their child’s temperament.”
–Los Angeles Family
When Tracy Hogg’s Secrets of the Baby Whisperer was first published, it soared onto bestseller lists across the country. Parents everywhere became “whisperers” to their newborns, amazed that they could actually communicate with their baby within weeks of their child’s birth. Tracy gave parents what for some amounted to a miracle: the ability to understand their baby’s every coo and cry so that they could tell immediately if the baby was hungry, tired, in real distress, or just in need of a little TLC. Tracy also dispelled the insidious myth that parents must go sleepless for the first year of a baby’s life–because a happy baby sleeps through the night. Now you too can benefit from Tracy’s more than twenty years’ experience. In this groundbreaking book, she shares simple, accessible programs in which you will learn:
• E.A.S.Y.–how to get baby to eat, play, and sleep on a schedule that will make every member of the household’s life easier and happier.
• S.L.O.W.–how to interpret what your baby is trying to tell you (so you don’t try to feed him when he really wants a nap).
• How to identify which type of baby yours is–Angel, Textbook, Touchy, Spirited, or Grumpy–and then learn the best way to interact with that type.
• Tracy’s Three Day Magic–how to change any and all bad habits (yours and the baby’s) in just three days.
At the heart of Tracy’s simple but profound message: treat the baby as you would like to be treated yourself. Reassuring, down-to-earth, and often flying in the face of conventional wisdom, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer promises parents not only a healthier, happier baby but a more relaxed and happy household as well.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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