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Summary: Excellent tool for new parents
Review: Birth is certainly a miraculous event, but bringing home a new baby is a challenge you can't even begin to anticipate until you're in the situation. Why is the baby crying? Should I go in and get her everytime she fusses? Or, should I just let her cry it out? Bottle or breastfeed? When is this baby going to sleep through the night? Tracy Hogg has created this 74 minute video adapted from her best-selling book. In it, she condenses the bigger points her book taught us:
*Why patting a baby to burp them is unadvised
*Don't let your baby cry him/herself out
*Essential preparations to do BEFORE baby comes home
*Good advice for Mom's who want to breastfeed
*Support for Mom's who choose to bottle feed
*Tracy's E.A.S.Y. and S.L.O.W. acronyms explained
*The 5 different types of baby personalities
*Tracy's website for free downloads and support It is ideal to purchase this video before your baby arrives, but it is still useful if your baby is already born and at home. Tracy's approach to respecting your baby's boundaries and getting baby on a routine keeps baby happy, and ultimately, gives you the bits of quiet and free time you long for.
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Summary: Forget the DVD
Review: Forget the DVD, get the book instead. There's no real help in the DVD. In fact, very little of the book is covered in the DVD. It explains the EASY acronym, but no help on how to implement it, what to do if you have problems with it, or even cheezy acted out examples (like they show of a couple coming home from the hospital). It's a terrible DVD. I'm giving it 1 star solely for those who want some VERY basic advice.
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Summary: Good preparation for 1st time parents
Review: I have a 5 month old and this video would've been great to see in my 8th or 9th month of pregnancy. I am going to buy one for my friend's baby shower. But, to watch it at the stage I am at now didn't offer anything that helpful. I am looking forward to Volume 2 - hopefully it will help me out more with the 6+ month stage. Overall, the video highlighted some good points from the book.
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Summary: Very Disappointed
Review: I thought this video would give me tips on how calm a baby and help them fall to sleep. I was wrong.....I guess you have to buy the next video to get that. This video shared very, very little that I did not already know and I am a first time twin mother. I think that Tracy needs to put more meat in ONE video instead of releasing multiple short videos to make money. I really feel like I wasted my money.
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Summary: Watch before your baby is born
Review: I wish this had existed when my baby was on her way because she was a few months old by the time this DVD came out. Great help for parents wanting to know how to calm their baby, change their baby, and other basic care. Not so great for parents of slightly older babies who have already been doing these things for quite a while. Good baby shower gift for someone.
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Summary: A Must Have
Review: This video is a "must have" for first-time parents. My husband and I are expecting our first child in June 2002. Everywhere we go we get advice from people--sometimes conflicting advice. This video contained the most sound advice we've received so far. The video was engrossing. We enjoyed it, and we plan to buy Hogg's series of books and tapes. We will probably watch this video again when we get closer to our due date. Even experienced parents may garner an "a ha" moment from this tape. The value we gained from this tape is worth every cent we invested to buy it.
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Summary: Not Much Here
Review: We watched this video when our baby was 6 months old. There was virtually nothing here that we hadn't learned before the baby's birth by taking classes or reading books. Only mildly interesting and helpful thing was advice on burping a baby. I found her EASY and SLOW acronyms simplistic and not very useful, as were her classifications of the "five types of babies." What good does it to do call your baby "spirited," "grumpy" or an "angel baby"? Her advice for a parent asking about a baby who cries a lot: it doesn't hurt him, it opens up his tear ducts. Sheesh. Finally, one would think with all her celebrity clients she could've gotten a few people who could act to be on this video. Even though they're "real people," the acting is painful.
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Summary: Read the book instead
Review: While Tracey Hogg has some wonderful advice in her book - of the same title - about how to interact with your newborn, the video seems to gloss right it. It seemed like whole chapters were presented in mere minutes and important sections were left out. Plus, the sections that featured questions from real parents seemed canned and corny. All this being said, the book is terrific. Skip the video - read the book instead.
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