Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby
by Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau
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Author: Melinda Blau, Tracy HoggEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-26
ISBN: 0345479092
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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- ISBN13: 9780345479099
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Sanity Saver!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
So glad if this book helps anyone else. I purchased it over a month ago. I was having a very rough time with our first child! It was excruciatingly difficult for me to get into the swing of things. I was overstimulating and under stimulating, over tiring, over feeding, projecting, you name it. I fear that I fumbled and failed almost as miserably as I could if I neglected my little miss. But, nearly three months down the road, I'm finally in a routine and it is working well for all of us. My daughter is now doing so well that I've already forgotten all our previous troubles!
As far as the baby personality profile quiz in the book, I think that sort of thing may be more helpful when a baby is at least a few weeks, rather than days old. I wouldn't have been able to answer the personality questions without knowing my daughter, and I didn't know her at first. Besides, infants change so much over the first two weeks as they adjust to life outside. However, if the general tips are followed, maybe the personality isn't so important to know right away. For me, when I was reading the book, I could tell more what kind of person our daughter is by the different ways she was freaking out when I accidentally ignored or misinterpreted her cues.
Immediately, with just 60 pages read, our baby was more rewardingly engaging and ready to learn. She simply needed to be properly understood. She is very reactive to environmental stimuli and needs more physical space than we and other family were giving her. Turns out, she is only very cuddly when overstimulated, so if she's clingy, she's trying to hide and rough night to come! She requires a lot of one on one interaction, I knew that, but is also easily over stimulated and tires easily.
Our poor little girl can't even eat properly when she is tired. I was seeing a lactation consultant, had ped visits up the you know what. I was told she had allergies and was reacting to something in my milk (I was eating the most depressingly bland diet!). I was told she had colic. I was told that I had a milk let-down reflex so fast it was gagging the poor dear. . . she has reflux. Well, less than three days on the E.A.S.Y. routine (our daughter surprisingly requires at least 5 daily naps!), no more colicky baby, no more nursing difficulties and I have enough time to get most things done before my husband gets home (that includes a boost in personal hygiene, Ha!). And the crazy thing, the hardest thing to convince others about, she sleeps more at night the more she sleeps during the day! Seriously! My girl falls asleep three hours earlier than before the E.A.S.Y. routine (now 8 pm), but still gets up at the same time in the morning!
Life before Secrets, once our daughter started crying she would become progressively more difficult to calm, and eat more and more poorly through out the day, screaming, gagging, beating at my chest. Every day was a downward spiral. At night she would wake over, and over, and over in rapid succession. It was getting ridiculous! I was becoming terrified for what each new day would bring me. But now I can't wait to get up in the morning and see that precious and tiny smiling face : ) Before this book, I was unable to tell if she was tired or overstimulated before it was too late. Hopefully, anyone else would get the book earlier than I (two and a half months) and, if they end up with a very sensitive child like ours, know what to look for before before daily exasperating melt downs ensue.
After applying what I learned from this book, my daughter immediately started trying to talk more and smiles increased exponentially! And after giving her the space I began to recognize she needed, she has become more tolerant and appreciative of cuddles. So, she is happy. I am happy (was feeling quite depressed). Our daughter still has reflux, but it really doesn't bother her unless she is getting tired. Now she even laughs at my reaction when she spits up! I had no idea that she needed so many naps, or how to tell when she needed one before she started crying. I LOVE THE BOOK!!!!!! Thank you Tracy for your gift!!!! And bless you kind woman!
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Summary of Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby
?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.
The last thing new parents can find time for is quiet reading, so many helpful books on infant care rely on bullet points and a "let's get to the point" writing style. Tracy Hogg, a neonatal nurse, teacher, and mother of two, uses these techniques to good effect in Secrets of the Baby Whisperer. Focusing on newborns and their parents, her simple programs are a blend of intelligent intuition and methods based on years of experience. The first half of the book is devoted to E.A.S.Y--her name for creating a structured daily routine for you and your baby that makes the most of your baby's awake times and also leaves time just for you. These concepts aren't designed to force your bundle of joy into not following her body's needs, but rather to create a feasible middle ground between total rigidity and on-demand food and sleep (and no time for mom to shower). If it still strikes you as too regimented, keep reading. The author makes room for differences in personal style and includes short quizzes to determine whether you're a "planner" or a "winger", and what level of daily structure you are likely to find helpful. In the same chapter, she identifies five general temperaments of infants, how to get an accurate feel for yours, and what methods of care are likely to be the most effective for his temperament. Her statement that babies prefer routine is backed up by research from the University of Denver. While most of the book relies on anecdotes to get the points across, Hogg does find room to back up some of her statements with quotes from various researchers and institutions. Included at the end of the book are assurances that E.A.S.Y. can be followed even with a colicky baby or one who's been ruling the roost for the first few months. Frustrated parents might like to read the last page first: "all the baby-whispering advice in the world is useless unless you're having a good time being a parent" is an excellent reminder to enjoy this time with all of its ups and downs. --Jill Lightner
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