Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 618
EAN: 9780091857028
ISBN: 0091857023
Label: Vermilion
Manufacturer: Vermilion
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: January 25, 2001
Publisher: Vermilion
Studio: Vermilion

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Overjoyed but exhausted? Perplexed but purring? Then you may just be a new parent. And if you're looking for practical reassurance and advice then Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect and Communicate with your Baby is for you.

Clearly a remarkable person, Tracy Hogg (the "baby whisperer") has an impressive ability to understand and relate to babies. Herself a mother, she is an experienced maternity nurse and has derived her approach from her dealings with countless babies and their families. Forgiving and sympathetic in style, her book is well written, immensely readable and is full of gems and shrewd observations that even the seasoned parent may not have worked out. She emphasises the importance of showing respect to your baby: "Just try to remember that this is a little human being in your arms, a person whose senses are alive, a tiny being who already knows your voice and even what you smell like." And so the parent is instructed to give the newly returned-home baby an explanatory commentary and friendly guided tour of his or her new home.

Those who enjoy personality quizzes will love the Know-Your-Baby Quiz in which you can "zero in" on your baby's type which, according to Ms Hogg could be "Angel", "Textbook", "Touchy", "Spirited" or "Grumpy". She then provides tips on the best way to handle each type of baby. Advocating a structured routine with the acronym EASY (Eat, Activity, Sleep, You) she then demonstrates how it works for the benefit of all the family. The book covers most topics from sex to weaning, but possibly the most helpful, even beautiful, section is where the Baby Whisperer divulges her secrets for interpreting your baby's body language, signals and cries.

If you find The Baby Whisperer helpful, you may well also be interested in Gina Ford's The Contented Little Baby Book, What to Expect: the First Year and the slightly higher brow Babyhood by Penelope Leach. --Rebecca Pickering




Rating: - The new baby bible!
This book became my bible, and I still reccommend it to friends and family, even though my son is now 2. It did what it claimed to do and helped me to calm connect and communicate with my baby, and I genuinely feel it made my 1st 2 years with him much more pleasant, and made him a happier baby. I highly reccommend it, and my only advise would be not to take it TOO seriously - it's a guide, not an instruction manual. Make the most of it while you can, when they hit 2 all your hard work goes out the ... Read More

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Rating: - good book
As a first time mum struggling to cope with my son this book was recommended to me. I didn't rigidly follow anything that she said but it did help me to understand that all babies are different and although i hadn't started off on the right foot, I was able to adjust our routine to cope with guidance from tracy hogg.
I would recommend this to anyone to read.

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Rating: - No-one ever said it would be E.A.S.Y.....o hang on, yes they did!
If you had asked me to rate this book when my first son was a year old, they would have had to invent a new system. It was easily an eleven out of ten. He thrived on it, it worked, we all loved it.

Then my daughter came in to the world with a very different view of things and suddenly, my tried and tested E.A.S.Y. arsenal was laid to waste. She didnt sleep, she ate all the time, she cried and cried....where the pages telling you waht to do when you were so fatigued and cross with your ... Read More

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Rating: - Wet and impractical (especially for sleep problems)
Brought this as a contrast to the Gina Ford "contented baby", which my wife and I found way too inflexible - but sadly it was far too much the other way.

In particular I would not recommend this book's approach to solving baby sleep problems, and in our case I am pretty sure it made things worse. For this usage I would very strongly instead recommend the much more authoritative and factually-based book by Dr Furber Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems - which sorted us out within a week.

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Rating: - made me feel like the worst mother in the world.
I bought this book, hoping to help me with my daughters sleeping, and routine. Instead it made me feel like the worst mother ever. I was trying to do things with her, that made no sense, kept trying to make her sleep all the time, when she shouldn't have been. Such a terrible book, don't buy it, it will confuse you, and make you feel rubbish!!!!!

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