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Summary: Thank You, Dr. Karp
Review: Some of the things Dr. Karp writes seem a bit silly and maybe even extreme, but the 5 S's work for my 8 week old daughter. At 2 weeks, I told my boyfriend that we must just have a colicky baby and we would have to deal with it. Then a neighbor loaned me this book. Now she sleeps 6 hours a night, eats, then sleeps another 3 hours because of these techniques. This book is definately worth reading and at least trying. I bought one each, for 2 of my friends who are expecting and I would recommend it highly to anyone who is having trouble with a fussy baby.
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Summary: The best book ever
Review: If you are expecting, you should buy this book NOW. I brought premature twins home and limped through the first few weeks they were home. If I would have had this book, my life would have been so much better. This is a short review, but the minute I started applying Dr. Karp's techniques, our babies responded immediately and are almost sleeping through the night. You MUST get this book, especially if you are getting ready to have your baby.
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Summary: This book saved us!!
Review: I wish that I had purchased this book before my daughter was born! When she was about 2-3 weeks, she suddenly became a cranky colic baby. I went on Amazon and purchased a bunch of different books because I was at a loss on what to do. I was tired of getting advice from well-meaning relatives who actually had no idea what we were dealing with. It turned out that our daughter had acid reflux, but the techniques in this book were a life saver! The five S's worked like a charm and we still use them even though our daughter is now 5 months old. Dr. Karp helps you see what you can do to help your baby feel calm and comforted.
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Summary: The Happiest Baby on the Block
Review: I am expecting my first baby in July and this book took away so much anxiety and fear about a crying baby. Buy this book, you will not be disappointed. Dr. Karp has a very easy writing style and does not talk down to you, nor does he demand that you do things his way only. He presents his ideas in a very friendly and easy manner - like you were talking to a good friend. I read the book in about 2 days - I just couldn't put it down. The biggest releif I found in his book was there were very few DON'Ts but there were many encouraging words and tons of DO's. :)
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Summary: The BEST Solution for crying babies!
Review: I bought the video tape to this book at a baby store because we needed help calming our 2 month old baby! I had no idea as to what the outcome might be. When I got a chance to see the tape and applied the 5S's shown by Dr. Karp, it was like a miracle! This book and video tape should be a MUST HAVE for all new parents. Nothing works to calm your baby like Dr. Karp's method and it is the only way we could calm our baby to get her to sleep 4 hours at a stretch. I wish I would have known about the 5S method before we brought the baby home from the hospital. Thanks Dr. Karp for giving us our sanity!!!
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Summary: EXCELLENT! Saved our sanity!
Review: Our first 4 weeks home from the hospital was wall to wall crying. We were first time parents and were clueless. It seems that we had spent 9 months buying "stuff" for the baby and we failed to try and educate ourselves on how we could help our baby adjust to life outside the womb. Happiest Baby truely made our baby the happiest baby on our block. I sat down and read the whole thing in a couple of hours and put the methods to work that night. They worked the first time - she slept that night!! We still use some of the methods now that she is 6 months old and they still work. Buy this book before anything else!
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Summary: This book made a believer out of a skeptic
Review: The title alone made me gag -- I thought this was going to be yet more marketing hype created for overachieving parents (like those Baby Mozart, Einstein, etc.), fearful that their child isn't "happy enough". Thankfully this book is actually instructional, and does provide techniques that WORK to soothe fussy infants. You can probably skip through most of the book -- the first chapter sounds like a sales pitch, and much of the book repeats itself -- and get all the information you need to soothe your baby in chapter 5. (This book could have been a pamphlet, actually, but I understand the need to make a buck.) My baby is very fussy and needed a lot of holding (all day!) to keep from crying. This book's advice helped me to free myself up without feeling like I was abandoning my child. She responds to swaddling by calming and sleeping. She is able to sleep without fussing for longer periods than without the swaddling, and definitely feeds a lot less than she did before.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I loved this book. I, thankfully, have a pretty happy baby anyway but when she gets fussy I use the techniques in this book and they have helped. Our daughter responds to all of the tips in this book in some way or another. This is not a waste of money especially if you have a fussy baby.
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Summary: A practical guide for sleep deprived parents
Review: This, quite simply, is an exceptional book. There are many experts out there who offer boatloads of advice on raising children. It is easy to get overwhelmed with the numerous styles that directly conflict with each other. Dr. Karp cuts through the fluff to provide easy to understand, scientifically relevant information that allows a frustrated parent to "turn on" a babie's calming reflex and end hours of agony. This is the most effective technique I've seen for calming an hysterical infant, and is a must have for parent's wishing to actually help their suffering children instead of tuning out or ignoring the cries generated by collic.
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Summary: The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Us
Review: This book is a life saver! My little boy had the worst time staying asleep, and when he woke up, he would cry for hours. With the 5 S's, he sleeps for four or five hours at a time! I finally feel like I'm rested when we wake up now! If you have a fussy baby, you need this book!
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