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Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby | 
 enlarge | Authors: Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 989
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 0345479092
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.122
EAN: 9780345479099
ASIN: 0345479092
Publication Date: July 26, 2005
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com's Best of 2001
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
Product Description
“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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| Customer Reviews: Read 573 more reviews...
 Yawn July 2, 2008
Rather boring. She says alot of what is common sense to most moms and there are no "secrets" to what mother nature gave us. I would not recommend it to friends or family. The one positive - its a really cheap book!
 Good in theory, hard to implement June 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read this book back-to-back with Babywise, and both books recommend the same EASY approach. The basics are worth following, but I found some of the specifics in the Baby Whisperer laughably hard to implement. Specifically, there are not enough hours in the day to do everything she says to do.
First, she recommends the mother nap from 2-5 every afternoon. If a breastfed baby eats every 2 1/2 to 3 hours, how is that possible? If a feeding takes 30-40 minutes, then active time takes another 30-45 minutes, and it takes 20 minutes to calm the baby for her nap (all her time estimates), the mother is simply not left with a three-hour block of time at any point in the day.
Second, her evening schedule leaves virtually no time for a parent to prepare and eat dinner (or any other activity, for that matter). She advocates two evening feedings, two hours apart, along with a daily bath and massage routine, which takes another 60 minutes (30 minutes for each activity), and then a "dream feed" when the baby is asleep before the parents retire for the night. Following the time estimates she gives, don't expect to eat until after 9 pm, and good luck trying to squeeze anything else into your evening.
If I had a dedicated maid, chef, and baby nurse, I could easily following the EASY plan. Without such a staff, however, I'm having to pick and choose what works with my six-week-old. Overall, I'm glad I read the book, but I could have done without the anxiety caused by trying to follow the full approach.
 FANTASTIC LIFE SAVER June 11, 2008
This book was a HUGE help to me with my newborn. It was full of helpful hints and guidelines. Though some of Tracy Hogg's suggestions didn't work for my little darling, she still provided a good prospective and loving ways to respond. Tracy's E.A.S.Y. routine is a complete life saver! It worked great for us; and we are still in this routine a year later! Our daughter thrives on EASY and is a well-rested, happy little girl. I buy this book for all of my first time mommy friends!
FABULOUS June 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i read this book on a car ride home from New Hampshire and I love llove love it. our daughter is a a little older than the ones she is dealing with, (not in the 03 month stage) but it's all applicable.
i love her middle of the road approach, i love the basic routine information.. I think it's all fabulous. Today is day one of our EASY attempts, and it's working like a charm.
There is a lot of insight here in this little book. It's something I wish i had when i was pregant, or when our little one was just born. But it's fabulous.
in response to the post about bad breast feeding advice... I think she spends so much time making the case for formula because there is such an innundation of information on on breast feeding. I didn't feel like she wasn't making her argument. On the contrary, i felt she was taking into consideration that the reader was already semi educated about breast feeding. What she did say about breast feeding I think was important to say - that it has to be learned, that it has to be a mother's choice, that it is a good thing to do. BUT that formula is good too, and that the guilt trip that comes with every mother who chooses to formula feed over breast feeding needs to stop NOW.
She also doesn't come across and say Attachment parenting is bad. She doesn't. But the goal in the book is to raise an independent child. A child that can fall asleep on their own. A child that can get to understand te routine in the day, their role in the family.
I know for me, we were doing semi demand feeding, but then nothing else got done. The baby HAD to be held so much of the time. and as much as I love it, practically, it's not going to work. So she shows you (or she showed me) how to work routine in to the mix with the EASY method, how to play, how to take care of yourself and how to get your baby to sleep.
So I Love this book. I would recommend it to anyone. I think it's worth the read and is full of great advice.
excellent!! June 9, 2008
Absolutely wonderful book! Every new Mom should read this, gives you so much confidence in taking care of your new baby. Helps you to understand & read your babies cues, body language, identify cries etc. Has so much teaching and my baby did everything just as she said he would. Also helps you to get them to sleep through the night, my baby slept through the night at 8 weeks. We recommend this book to everyone we know!
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