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Summary: Dr. Karp's technique really works!
Review: Dr. Karp's technique is easy and it really works. My baby has responded to the technique beautifully, and we are actually getting some sleep for a change. A must-have for parents of a newborn.
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Summary: Watch this video!!
Review: This video teaches you so much in 38 minutes. Most of Dr. Karp's wonderful ideas, talked about in his GREAT book, HAPPIEST BABY ON THE BLOCK, are here, on video. You can see him with real babies and real parents with real solutions. He has a knack for igniting the calming reflex in babies and is more than willing to share this with all the tired parents out there!! Learn about the FOURTH trimester, your life with your new baby will be much easier. Everyone will be happier, calmer and more rested.
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Summary: The Video Every Parent Needs to View
Review: This video is a great way to see Dr. Karp's 5 S's at work. See how to correctly swaddle your baby, see real babies reacting to the 5 S's and see real parents learning how to calm their babies. This video is easy to follow and the results are terrific!
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Summary: Dr. Karp is a god for new parents
Review: I read the book first, which was so helpful and clear on its own. But then a friends lent me her DVD copy and it was a great compliment to the book. I have a 2 month old at home and we use all of the 5 "S" multiple times every day. To see Dr. Karp at work and see how he could calm the babies was so wonderful. The DVD is nice, too, because its like the Cliff Notes version of the book. Whereas my husband hates to read, he was very interested in watching the DVD and it helped to iilustrate the points I was trying to explain to him in the book. I also showed the DVD to my parents, my in-laws, our babysitter, and all of my friends with babies. We then bought multiple copies to have to give as gifts to new parents as well as my parents who bought multiple copies to give to their friends who are having new grandchildren. The DVD is definitely worth the money, even if you already read the book.
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Summary: a must see for all expecting parents
Review: This is the best information available for new moms and dads on how to calm the baby. It will help a lot to watch it during the last trimester of pregnancy so that you will be prepared right from the birth of the child. Of course, you wont have time to watch the dvd once the baby is born.
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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.
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Summary: Dr. Karp, will you marry me?
Review: My husband and I were skeptical. I bought this DVD on a whim and it stayed in its wrapper for 2 weeks before we watched it. Our baby fussed for 2 hours at night, fighting sleep, but obviously exhausted, well fed, and wearing a clean diaper. My daughter fussed while we watched the video and we calmed her right there as we watched the techniques. We can get her to sleep in less than 5 minutes, rather than try to calm her fussing for over an hour, like we had done before.
It really works! We are now the Happiest Parents on the Block! Our baby is calm and well rested. We are less stressed. We are giving it to all our pregnant friends as part of their baby gifts.
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Summary: IT WORKS INSTANTLY! LIKE A SWITCH!
Review: My son was crying since the day he was born. In the hospital he would not stop crying, even the nurses could not help me. He had also developed a colic, and as his mother, I felt so helpless, when he would wake up the first month every hour at night, crying. I tried Colic drops, I tried Dr. Brown's bottles (which I recommend as well - as my pediatrician recommended getting them for colic too) and just about anything else. These items all helped a little, but the thing that really made him stop crying was the methods introduced by Harvey Karp (5 S's). All our family members could not believe how he would just calm down instantly, as soon as we just held him the right way. Believe me, I had my doubts too. But then my pediatrician recommended this video to me, and I am as sceptical as mothers come, but believe me it REALLY WORKS! And what's best is that it is not hard. And my husband loved that it is something he could do too to soothe the baby. I could soothe our son a little by nursing him sometimes. And my husband was happy that he could soothe him with this. It also goes into great detail explaining how to hold, how to pat, how to talk to your baby to get an instantly soothed child. Even a lot of the stars use this method by Dr. Karp for their babies. I definitely recommend it!
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Summary: Skeptics, Tired Parents Be Assured - This Really Works!
Review: As a second-time mom I thought I knew all the "tricks" to get a somewhat fussy baby to calm down. Little did I realize that our new daughter required an entirely different method of calming. We tried everything, but were not getting more than 3-4 hours of sleep at night. After 4 weeks I decided enough was enough!
I heard about this book at a birth club and after seeing many rave reviews about how well it worked just had to get it. I read it from front to back in less than a day and immediately started on the methods Dr. Karp listed.
Within a few hours it was as though we had an entirely different baby! :) She was much calmer all around, as though she had been crying for these techniques for weeks. Within a week she was sleeping for 5 hour stretches at night.
Really, whether you buy this book used or new, it is worth every cent! Dr. Karp explains how to use his 5 S's in everyday lingo, with humor and lots of illustrations. He also explains why these techniques work, which I found incredibly interesting.
Overall, Highly Recommended!
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Summary: We Live for the Swaddle
Review: Dr. Harvey Karp's techniques were great. We especially liked the first "S" -- swaddling. It is really working well for my 3 month old son. We believe it was because we swaddle him at night that he began sleeping through the night at just 2 months old! He goes to bed at 7:30pm and sleeps right through until 7:30am!
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