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Summary: finally - efficient advice
Review: this book is the one and only way to calm down your baby.it is so sad that we forget in our technical world what a baby really need.you get 1000 of "good tips" from people around you.but beleave you get crazy, because everyone give you different tips.
harvey karp describe in an entertaining and sensitive way the worries of parents and the way to calm down your baby.
this book is a must have for all young parents.
i am so happy and my baby too.we are the happiest family on the block.best wishes and much success
a mother from germany
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: I thought this book was great. I had a hard time keeping my baby asleep at night so, although hesitant, I decided to try the swaddling. 10 minutes later my baby was sleeping and slept for 6 hours. I am still swaddling my 2 month old and every night he is happily sleeping for 6 hours straight each night.Dr. Karp's book is terrific and is very helpful for me.
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Summary: THANK YOU Dr. Karp
Review: THANK YOU! I'm the mother of three children -- an 8 year old, 6 year old and a 5 week old. At three weeks, she began screaming and crying every night at 9:00 p.m.. She cried every night for 10 days straight for two to four hours. We never experienced such crying with our older two children. I broke out all the old baby books and went to the Internet searching for help. I found this book, but was skeptical about whether or not it would work. I bought but only had a couple of hours to read it before the 9:00 witching hour/ In that time, we were able to get enough information that when she started crying, we were able to calm her in a matter of minutes. Since that first night, we've gotten better at using Dr. Karp's techniques and we haven't had one crying episode that we couldn't calm in minutes, rather than hours. If you have a fussy baby BUY THIS BOOK!
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Summary: The 5 S's really work!
Review: Dr. Karp's advice has completely changed our fussy infant into a much calmer and happier infant. Consequently we feel better about our parenting skills and we are so thrilled to help our son. As new parents we were at a loss to help calm our son. The constant screaming even after being rested, fed and changed was extremely difficult to tolerate. We read so many books and tried so many suggestions. Dr. Karp's 4 S's allowed us to turn on our baby's calming reflex immediately. Our son sleeps longer and much more peacefully. I highly recommend purchasing the video to see how to apply the method and the book for practical parenting advice. Our life has completely changed because of Dr. Karp. If you have a fussy or colicky baby you would be a fool not to purchase The Happiest Baby On The Block.
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Summary: Wonderful for NEWBORN babies
Review: This book is a LIFESAVER if your baby is a colicky newborn. There is no other manual for the ideas that calm and soothe a cranky newborn. The ideas are all commonsense and known to mothers since the beginning of time: rocking, swaddling, shhhing and holding your baby - but in today's world lacking family to teach us these things this book is the next best thing. One problem is that when you are outgrowing the methods and you no longer want to rock, swaddle and shhh to sleep several times a night then you have to go the next step and I'd suggest The No-Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley. Dr Karp's work and hers are very compatible and he even wrote the foreword to her new book Gentle Baby Care (which ALSO has great chapters on sleep and crying and colic and teething and swadding) Between these two authors your baby can have a calm, peaceful first year.
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Summary: An Excellent Book!!
Review: My children are past the baby stage, but I still had to buy this book because I work with mothers and their newborns. The most frustrating part of my job is helping a mother cope with a fussy or colicky baby. Dr. Karp's book not only gave me an excellent explanation of a baby's first three months, but he also gives very practical and realistic ways to help calm your baby. After 10 years of raising my own kids and working with mothers I had many peices of the puzzle, but Dr. Karp's book put the the puzzle together for me! It is fun to explain Dr. Karp's book to mothers and see the light bulbs go off in their heads. Dr. Karp wrote a book based on fact and history and he really understands the biological needs of babies. I have started recommending this book to my clients.
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Summary: Get it from the library
Review: I check ALL baby books out before I buy & on this one I was glad I did. All I needed to do is read it once. The tips were simple, and I hoped effective. For my son, this stuff simply didn't work. He HATED being swaddled. He HATED being on his tummy. Luckily, he was not a really fussy baby, even though he had reflux. Dr. Sears Baby Book had more info on his actual condition, and covered most of the main points of this book too. In all, not a bad book, but I don't think it is worth owning.
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Summary: Must have for new parents!!
Review: I live in the Los Angeles, CA area, and I had heard of Dr. Harvey Karp before I had my daughter. I was given his book when I gave birth to her, and started to read it. I am blessed with a very easy going baby (so far!), so I did not have to do the 5 S's very often. The biggest gift Dr. Karp gave us though was SWADDLING! She would instantly be calmed if we swaddled her. It was amazing! And still is swaddled! She is five and half months old and I still swaddle her! And I will continue as long as she wants it! She has been sleeping through the night for several months and has 3 solid naps a day, I think because of swaddling! I would highly recommend this book and also a "Swaddle Me" blanket for every new parent. These two things will be baby shower gifts for all my friends having babies. Buy this book now if you have a crying newborn and swaddle away! Good luck!
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Summary: Dr. Karp teaches you how to keep your baby happy!
Review: After my third baby was born, I found Dr. Karp's book. I felt pretty confident in my abilities to take care of babies by the third time around, but I learned something new from his book. Dr. Karp's methods are really common sense and are things that our grandmas probably knew, but we've lost touch with in our age of electronic baby gadgets and experts who think they've reinvented the wheel. Dr. Karp brings us back to basics with something that ACTUALLY WORKS. It's not gimmicky, nor is it a rigid program. It's just the key to helping your baby feel better and cry less. I would recommend buying the video along with the book, though. The one part of the book that was trickiest to implement was the tight swaddling. We couldn't quite get it right and I think our baby missed out. The video is complementary to the book, showing you how to do what you read about in the book. I recommend this book to all the new moms I know. May Dr. Karp's ideas get the attention they deserve - his respect for babies shines through and through!
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Summary: Your baby WILL get addicted
Review: Dr. Karp has a wonderful way with infants the first three months of life! Never has anyone put together such a wonderful method for calming children. However, buyer beware- the swaddling is addictive for the baby. Our child is 5 mos. old, and he will not sleep unswaddled. I disagree with the previous reviewer that the baby simply doesn't need swaddling to sleep. It is a learned behavior and it is hard to break. Keep in mind that once you get your baby used to the swaddling, it will be difficult to leave your child with another caregiver, as few people will do the "tap dance" you do to get your child to sleep. My wife had to delay her maternity leave b/c of this. Still, Dr. Karp is the King of calming fussy newborns. I would recommend his methods for calming the crying jags, but def. not for sleep. Unless, you want to get in the predicament we are in. Good luck! -
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