| | |  | Miscellaneous | Home » » » The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems (by Teaching You How to Ask the Right Questions): Sleeping, Feeding, and Behavior--Beyond the Basics from Infancy Through Toddlerhood | | | | | | | Description: | | Goes beyond the basics presented in the author's first two child-care guides to offer a series of specific, targeted strategies for solving common challenges faced by parents of children up to three years of age, including feeding problems, sleep troubles, and behavior issues, in a volume complemented by real-life case stories. 125,000 first printi | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Tracy Hogg | | Hardcover:
| 416 pages | | Publication Date:
| January 04, 2005 | | Package Length:
| 9.13 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.24 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.26 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 111 reviews |
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 My #1 Favorite Baby BookOct 19, 2009
I wore this book out. And I give it as gifts. I find Tracy's style practical and do-able. I find myself repeating her mantra of "start as you mean to go on..." all the time. At first it may seem like a lot of 'rules' but her guidance on breastfeeding, and MOST importantly SLEEPING has been a godsend to me. My kids go to bed early and with minimal fuss and they have since they were babies. Even now as my kids have become preschoolers, the techniques I learned from this book when they were babies are still in place, and still guide me as they go into different phases of behavior in life. I only wish Tracy were still alive to keep writing parenting books! I also recommend getting this BEFORE you bring your baby home - so you can start off on the right foot day one.
It helps u know what to do!!!Oct 08, 2009
The best book when you are having a Baby. It helps u know what to do!!!
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 horrible adviceAug 05, 2009
I received this book as a gift. I completely disagree with this lady. She recommends that one put their baby to bed with lots of diaper cream on their butt and not change diapers in the night. So, she recommends that the baby be left in a dirty diaper! Urine and feces irritates the skin, causing diaper rash and skin breakdown.
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If you just can't or won't do cry it out, but want your baby to sleep through the night quickly this is the book for you!!!Jul 30, 2009
I bought this book after doing MUCH research and reading. At the time my daughter was 9 months old and I had managed to get in the habit of nursing her to sleep. She had to nurse to sleep for every nap and bedtime and every night waking and if, God forbid, she woke up as I lowered her into the crib, we would have to start all over again. She was up every 1.5 hours EVERY night for months, and finally I just had it. I had read books that reccommend cry it out, or controlled crying but even the ones where you went in every 5 to 10 minutes and soothed the baby seemed so cruel to me, and she would get soooo upset. I have even heard of babies vomiting from this. Plus I had more than one person who did "cry it out" tell me that 1. There baby became more clingy during the day and feared/hated his/her crib and bedtime and 2. When they went on vacation or the baby got sick they would have to start CIO all over again when they got home or the baby was well again. There was no way I was going to do that more than once! So I looked for other options, one is the "No-cry sleep solution" I loved the idea, but I didn't like how long it was going to take. I tried it for a while, but I wasn't seeing improvement quick enough (for me), I needed something that worked faster, since I was a walking zombie!! I found this book and thought I would give it a shot, I decided to give it a week and if I didn't see improvement I probably would have given up. The first night was hard (but way easier than the first night of cry it out would have been). The second night my daughter who had never slept more than 2 hours at a time at night, went 4 hours without waking to eat. On the third night she put herself to sleep all by herself with NO crying (just a little fussing) and slept for 4 hours again each stretch. In less that a week she was putting herself to sleep for every nap and bedtime with NO CRYING at all!! She would babble and play and then fall asleep! And she was only getting up once or twice a night (a vast improvement from 7-8!) Within 3 weeks she slept through the night for the first time and has been ever since (with the exception of when she gets sick, however she gets right back to sleeping after she is better, no crying! yay!
We are now using this book with my son. I started right away with him and at 2 weeks old he put himself to sleep all on his own for naps and bedtimes and at 8 weeks he slept through the night. Then he was diagnosed with severe reflux at 3 months and he would wake up in pain at night and the only thing that would soothe him was to feed him. So now at 8 months we are using the book to get him to sleep through the night again now that his meds for reflux are finally right. He had been getting up ever 2 hours at night because of the pain and then it just became a habit once his meds starting working. I started the book 2 days ago. Last night he only got up ONCE to eat. He slept from 7pm-1:20 and then 1:20 till 7 AM! 3 days ago he got up 7 times in one night.
This book WORKS! If you follow it for two days you will see VAST improvement. Your baby most likely won't be sleeping through the night on the 2nd day but usually by 2 weeks they will be. And after the 2nd night you will see such improvement that I guarantee you will be encouraged to continue and it feels so good too because you have saved your baby (AND YOU!) the emotional stress of crying it out!
Basically you get your baby on a routine, NOT A STRICT SCHEDULE. You CAN fluxuate from it, I did with both my kids and it still works/worked for them. You basically just want the baby to get to the point where he/she knows what's coming next. Eat, activity (awake time), sleep.
The only con I found with this book is that she does sound condescending at times, she calls you Luv, and sometimes makes it sound like you are a little kid who doesn't know what you are doing. But, honestly, WHO CARES? So long as it's working I don't care what she calls me! lol
Some people claim she sounds like she is against breastfeeding, but I did not get that impression at all.I think she is just trying to say, breastfeeding or formula, whatever you decide is right for you is best. I BF my daughter for 13 months and this book worked perfectly for me and I plan to do the same with my son.
To the people who are considering doing cry it out but looking for an alternative. Give this book 3 days, just 3 days, if you are not convinced that it is the better choice than crying it out, then go ahead and do cry it out. I pass no judgement on people who do choose to do CIO, it is better to do that and have a happy parent than to have a sleepless unhappy parent IMO. But if you are on the fence and feel guilty about having or deciding to do CIO, just try this first! It's just 3 days, and if it doesn't work, you can always do CIO afterwards. I have reccommended this book to 4 people already and ALL FOUR of them said it worked for them, and 2 of them give it as a shower gift they loved it so much.
Good ResourceJul 24, 2009
I really enjoyed reading this book, Hogg has a great writing style (though as another reviewer commented, she does come off as very "unforgiving") and is very down to earth.
I agree with her principles: get baby on a routine from the beginning (I really like her "EASY" routine! Eat, Activity, Sleep, time for You), help baby fall asleep on her own, don't let baby "cry it out" EVER. I'm just not completely sold on all of her methods, at least for older babies who haven't been on a strict routine from the beginning. At least for me and my family, I think a more gradual approach (like Elizabeth Pantley's suggestions in The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night) will work better.
Even though I don't completely agree with her, this was a great read and will be a valuable resource!
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