Rating: 
Summary: "The Happiest Baby" helps create the happiest parents!
Review: The need for a "fourth trimester" for our newborns, as suggested in "THE HAPPIEST BABY ON THE BLOCK", is something I've taught for years in childbirth, parenting and infant massage classes. Still, I was surprised at the excitement I felt while watching Dr. Karp's video. The idea of pulling together some basic tools people naturally use to calm babies, and thereby helping to elicit a "calming reflex", struck me as simple, yet brilliant. Dr. Karp also provides powerful rationale for why the tools work, and how to combine them for the best results.
Currently I also work as a lactation specialist. I see brand new parents who are in the midst of that immediate postpartum "overwhelm". I have found it supportive to my efforts to refer parents to Dr. Karp's work, as the problems with breastfeeding are not always about feeding. New parents can lack the basic information, skills, and confidence needed to interact successfully with their babies. This, in turn, can complicate the baby's adjustment from womb to world, and negatively affect many aspects of life, including feeding. Seeing these calming techniques in action on this great video makes it possible to understand and learn them quickly and easily...a plus for new parents! Parents' confidence then increases as they learn to pay respectful attention to their newborns, and implement Dr. Karp's techniques and rationale. As they see their positive influence thier baby's ability to calm , the parents themselves become calmer. Calmer parents and babies can positively affect breast feeding. Also, as a parenting educator, I know this type of early "success cycle" cycle between parent and child can set the stage for making parenting easier and far more rewarding for the rest of their lives. I encourage every new and prospective parent to get Dr. Karp's video, "THE HAPPIEST BABY ON THE BLOCK"!
Rating:
Summary: Best Gift a Mom can be given
Review: My first son had colic and I know these techniques would have helped. We bought this after the birth of my second son, and although he didn't have colic, it kept him so peacful! We had such a peaceful newborn experience and could so easily calm him with Dr. Karps techniques. I have since given it at many showers. The mothers are skeptical at first and after their babies are born I hear back from them about how appreciative they are for these techniques. WONDERFUL!
Rating:
Summary: Watch this DVD
Review: This is a must have, watch it during your 9th month so it will be fresh in your mind, and apply it right away when the baby is born.
Although you may hear or read about Dr Karp's method, I suggest to watch the video because if you don't do it exactly right it doesn't work.
This method works, and also in the video you'll find answers to many questions you may have and you'll also see how many parents are in the same boat, and you are not alone out there.
I have to say that I went to Dr. Karp's web site and send him an email with a question and he answered it on the same day, I was so surprised!!
Rating: 
Summary: Don't Spend Your Cash - Save it for the Baby!
Review: We could not wait to watch this DVD since we were expecting our first child. First of all, the DVD recommended wrapping the baby in a blanket, this is nothing new, so is buying and using a swing. The only new technique was doing the "shshshshshshsh" sound right to the baby's ear. At first it worked for a few seconds, then baby cried more. I wish I could return this DVD and get my money back.
Rating:
Summary: Sleep! It can happen!
Review: We received this DVD as a shower gift and completely forgot about it - until our daughter was nearly a month old, and was getting me up about every hour to nurse her, hardly ever actually calming down for the night until 2 AM. I found the DVD and watched it, and started applying the 5 S's immediately. Getting my daughter to go down for a nap was super easy. Best of all, I nursed her and put her to bed around 9, and she slept SOUNDLY until 1:30! Then, after eating, she slept again until 5! Amazing. I am a new woman, with a much happier baby. I am lending this DVD to everyone who has a small baby or will be taking care of one!!!! If it works like this every night, I want to find Dr. Karp and kiss him!!!!!
Rating:
Summary: I wish I would have gotten this sooner!
Review: This is an excellent present for new parents. I got the video when my son was two months old, but I wish I would have had it before he was born. The techniques that Dr. Karp teaches you really work. His explanation of why babies are so fussy during the first three months of life helped me to put things in perspective and to understand that this stage wouldn't last forever.
Rating:
Summary: The Happiest Baby on the Block
Review: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! My son USED to cry from 6:30-11:30pm then would sleep a little during the night, after hours of walking, would wake up and cry from 9:30am-noon day in and day out with no sleeping during the day. I was ready to go crazy!!! I found you on the Internet and ordered the tape. My husband and I watched your tape at 10pm and we practiced the 5's during the middle of one of his colic fits. He needed all 5 steps. Then he turned off like a switched. He went to bed at 11pm and slept to 5am!!!!!! It was only the beginning. We are 3 weeks into this and he doesn't cry any longer then a few minutes. We just dudu wrap him and he stops. He takes naps now and is really bonding with our family. I passed the tape around to friends with babies and it works for all of them. I tell everyone, I even brought it to my pediatrician who is getting one for his office. I had been calling him for 7 weeks to find out what was wrong with my child and all he gave me was gas drops and medication to relax his bowls. Now he is on nothing. Thank you for giving us our son back,
David and Elizabeth
Rating: 
Summary: The book is great - but the video is better!
Review: If you are a visual learner or are at your wit's end with a baby that who doesn't sleep - and therefore have no time to read - I highly recommend this video. It's wonderful to be shown exactly how to attempt Dr. Karp's techniques instead of trying to figure it out after reading the book. Enjoy!
Rating:
Summary: Happiest Baby on the Block
Review: This video is an absolute necessity for any new parent. We wish we had seen it before bringing the baby home. We purchased it when our baby was about seven weeks old, and it was still a great help. The techniques shown by Dr. Karp are fairly common sense, but if you are new parents (as we are) you probably don't know this simple technique for calming a newborn. His technique worked like a charm. It was an absolute lifesaver!!! A must-have!!!
Rating:
Summary: The BEST baby shower gift you could possibly give
Review: I am a professional reviewer, but the images on this tape truly deserve the overused "you have to see it to believe it" comment.
As a mother of a baby who had colic, it is beyond amazing to see howling newborns go from fury to quiet in as little as a minute. Best of all, Dr. Karp's "magic" touch is something anyone can learn to do by following these clearly described and demonstrated steps. Appropriate cautions are given at each stage, i.e. not putting a baby down to *sleep* on her stomach or jiggling a baby so hard as to give him Shaken Baby Syndrome. I honestly believe this tape ushers in a new era for newborn parenting. And finally, as others have noted, the video/DVD format is quick and easy for sleep-deprived parents to absorb. If you know someone who's pregnant, don't waste your money on another baby outfit...buy them something they can REALLY use.
|
