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| The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer | 
 enlarge | Author: Harvey Karp
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  632 reviews
Sales Rank: 344
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0553381466
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.122
EAN: 9780553381467
ASIN: 0553381466
Publication Date: May 27, 2003
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Product Description
In perhaps the most important parenting book of the decade, Dr. Harvey Karp reveals an extraordinary treasure sought by parents for centuries --an automatic “off-switch” for their baby’s crying.
No wonder pediatricians across the country are praising him and thousands of Los Angeles parents, from working moms to superstars like Madonna and Pierce Brosnan, have turned to him to learn the secrets for making babies happy.
Never again will parents have to stand by helpless and frazzled while their poor baby cries and cries. Dr. Karp has found there IS a remedy for colic. “I share with parents techniques known only to the most gifted baby soothers throughout history …and I explain exactly how they work.”
In a innovative and thought-provoking reevaluation of early infancy, Dr. Karp blends modern science and ancient wisdom to prove that newborns are not fully ready for the world when they are born. Through his research and experience, he has developed four basic principles that are crucial for understanding babies as well as improving their sleep and soothing their senses:
The Missing Fourth Trimester: as odd as it may sound, one of the main reasons babies cry is because they are born three months too soon.
The Calming Reflex: the automatic reset switch to stop crying of any baby in the first few months of life.
The 5 “S’s”: the simple steps (swaddling, side/stomach position, shushing, swinging and sucking) that trigger the calming reflex. For centuries, parents have tried these methods only to fail because, as with a knee reflex, the calming reflex only works when it is triggered in precisely the right way. Unlike other books that merely list these techniques Dr. Karp teaches parents exactly how to do them, to guide cranky infants to calm and easy babies to serenity in minutes…and help them sleep longer too.
The Cuddle Cure: the perfect mix the 5 “S’s” that can soothe even the most colicky of infants.
In the book, Dr. Karp also explains:
What is colic?
Why do most babies get much more upset in the evening?
How can a parent calm a baby--in mere minutes?
Can babies be spoiled?
When should a parent of a crying baby call the doctor?
How can a parent get their baby to sleep a few hours longer?
Even the most loving moms and dads sometimes feel pushed to the breaking point by their infant’s persistent cries. Coming to the rescue, however, Dr. Karp places in the hands of parents, grandparents, and all childcare givers the tools they need to be able to calm their babies almost as easily as…turning off a light.
From the Hardcover edition.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 627 more reviews...
 Didn't work for my screaming newborn December 3, 2008
This book was highly recommended to us when I was pregnant with my first baby last year. The first day, we brought our precious newborn home and she wouldn't stop screaming we immediately turned to the book for answers. We desperately read the entire thing and tried all of the suggestions, but nothing made a difference; she still screamed unconsolably. It left us feeling even more helpless and frustrated. She was eventually diagnosed with reflux, but even after we got her on Prevacid she was a fussy, screaming baby.
There were a few things in the book that gave us hope that our baby wouldn't be this way forever, but that didn't make up for the fact that there was nothing we could do in the meantime to make the nightmare end. She finally started acting more like a "normal" baby (sleeping more, less screaming) around 4 months. I'm not sure what we could have done differently, but this book definitely didn't have the answers for us.
 This book was a Godsend! December 3, 2008
I seriously don't know what we would've done without this book. My son just would not stop crying as soon as we got him home from the hospital. Being first-time parents we seriously had no idea what we were doing wrong. We followed the advice of this book and it actually worked. We were amazed! I now recommend this book to any soon-to-be or first-time parents. I would've loved to have read this before my little boy was born. Would've made things a lot easier.
I loved this book and it was a quick read. November 26, 2008
I enjoyed this book a lot. Now I just have to buy the dvd for my other half! You know he's not reading the book...
JUST GET THE DVD. November 26, 2008
The book didn't really add much to the DVD. The DVD is worth every cent.
Must read for every expecting parent! November 16, 2008
This book should be compulsory for every expecting parent. It gives a completely fresh perspective on the early months of having a newborn, and Dr. Karp provides a nice counterbalance to many of the books on the market that tell you not to spoil your child and how to train them to sleep.
Reading this (unfortunately, only when my baby was already about 5 weeks) really changed my life and my perspective as a mother. My life, because it provided me the means to calm my fussy baby and help her sleep. My perspective, because it reinforced that some of the things that seemed natural to me -- holding her close a lot, wearing her, etc. -- were in fact good things, not bad habits that would need to be broken.
I stopped swaddling after about 3 months (she was too big and kicked it all off), and stopped some of the other S's around the same time or a bit later...and at 8 months (and for the past several months!), my baby sleeps calmly through the night, goes down peacefully at night, and is a very happy baby! People ask me all the time, "Is she always this happy?" and I can confirm, I have the happiest baby on the block!
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