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	The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems: Sleeping, Feeding, and Behavior--Beyond the Basics from Infancy ... Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau Atria, 2006 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 92 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Thousands of parents have asked the Baby Whisperer to help them solve their problems. With this book you too can take advantage of the advice, insights, and parenting techniques from beloved child expert Tracy Hogg. "A problem is nothing more than a situation calling for a creative solution," she reminds us. "Ask the right questions and you'll come up with the right answers."

Once you learn how to translate banguage, the "baby-language" your infant uses to communicate needs, feelings, and opinions, you can see your child for who he or she really is -- an understanding that will serve you well as your child blossoms into the toddler years. By helping you establish a daily routine and tailor your parenting strategies according to your child's unique personality and stage of development, Tracy will teach you how to:

? Ask the Twelve Essential Questions to recognize potential problems and employ the Twelve Principles of Problem Solving -- simple troubleshooting techniques for everyday situations

? Avoid, or remedy, accidental parenting -- inadvertent adult behavior that often leads to such common parenting challenges as sleep problems, poor eating habits, separation anxiety, and tantrums

? Be a P.C. parent -- patient and conscious -- who knows how to detect prime times -- windows of opportunity for teaching babies how to get to sleep on their own, introducing bottles to breast-fed babies, toilet training, and other growth issues

? Inhibit runaway emotions and foster his or her emotional fitness -- the ability to understand and manage feelings

...and so much more. For Tracy's fans, this book will be a welcome addition to the Hogg library; for readers unfamiliar with her philosophy of care, it will open a new world of understanding and insight.

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Easily the most helpful book I have found yet

As a first time mom to a nearly three week old baby, who really is a no-fuss angelic girl I found I had little questions here and there which seemed an enigma to me but were clearly outlined in this book. The author outlined for me in her trouble-shooting more answers in a period of an hour of reading than the last three weeks of "getting-to-know-my-baby-time."

The way she references other locations in the book where more information can be found is highly useful for getting the answers you need without having to search.

All the other books I had read had been saying that my baby should eat at both breasts each time she feeds, however, I wasn't doing that. I had talked to my pediatrician about it and he wasn't concerned since my baby was putting on weight fantastically and seemed very content. After reading about it AGAIN in "BabyWise" I called the Birth Center where my baby had been born to ask one of the nurses about it. The nurse advised me to switch breasts after 10 minutes. In this book the author illustrates the composition of breastmilk and shows that 10 minutes of eating will only give the baby the first segment of the milk - essentially skim milk - and she won't get the really fatty good milk she needs if she switches breasts after 10 minutes. My daughter had been giving hunger cues every hour late at night since switching to the 10 minute program, I now know it's because she really wasn't getting the heavy sustaining milk to get her through the night...

For those who haven't been able to stomach "BabyWise" and having your baby cry themselves to sleep, this is the happy middle-ground book to still get them on a "routine"
without feeling like you are the world's worst parent.

It's been in my baby's best interest for me to read and understand this book.

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Great reference book

I received the first book 5 years ago from my aunt. Tremendously helpful. Well, I gave that one away. While searching for the first book, The Baby Whisperer, for a friend of mine, I came across this one. I have read through it and it reminded me of everything required for a healthy, happy, baby and family. I have marked all my pages for reference and will be checking it often. I recommend this book for all mommies as a fantastic reference.


Fabulous addition to her first book

I read Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby while I was pregnant, and found that a lot of the ideas were useful with my newborn. In particular, the descriptions of how to tell when your baby was sleepy were invaluable, and I also found that feeding her right after she woke instead of feeding her to sleep was helpful. Unlike my first baby, who was always nursed to sleep, my four-month-old falls asleep on her own quite happily, and I know this has a lot to do with my following many of Hoggs' suggestions. However, I was still struggling with bedtime - naps in the day were fine, but I couldn't get my baby down at night at a reasonable time, and when I did, she woke up half an hour later and was up until midnight. The first baby whisperer book didn't have much help for this.

This book does! It explains in far more detail the kinds of transitions you'll want to make as your baby grows older, and it turns out that yes, my baby can go for longer without food now, and she does actually seem happier that way. It has a lot of specific discussion about how to get a baby to sleep without letting her cry it out, and about how to deal with too-short-naps and so on. There's also more information right up until toddlerhood.

This is my favourite baby parenting book - but obviously you have to find a book that suits your personality and the kinds of things that are important to you in parenting. If you want a really rigid schedule, try The New Contented Little Baby Book. If you want to co-sleep but still have your baby sleep for more than half an hour at a time, try The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night. If you want to do the cry-it-out solution, get Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems: New, Revised, and Expanded Edition.

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good, but take it with a grain of salt

When my lovely daughter recently started going to sleep at 12am instead of 10pm like she did for the first three months of her life I phoned our doctor and she recommended this book. I got this version because it included infancy through toddlerhood and figured it would be good for later too. Now since we have started using it our dear baby girl has been sleeping through the night, in her own crib, in her very own room! The only issue I have is that they go through the intro stuff so fast that it doesn't seem to be explained very well. I still have lots and lots of questions that aren't really being answered from this book but had a feeling they were in her first book (designed for younger babies). So I bought the first book too. But all in all if your in the market to help your baby sleep through the night, this book is helpful, but you have to follow the plans (except you can tweak a little once you get the hang of it).
Also some of what is says is impossible to do unless you have a nanny or child care helper in your home with you, so my advise is adapt her theories to best that you can for your lifestyle and try not to beat yourself up if you can't follow it to the letter, once i figured that out it made my life so much easier.

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