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by Tracy Hogg (Author), Melinda Blau (Author) "No event in an adult's life equals both the joy and the terror of becoming a parent for the first time ..." (more)
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The last thing new parents can find time for is quiet reading, so many helpful books on infant care rely on bullet points and a "let's get to the point" writing style. Tracy Hogg, a neonatal nurse, teacher, and mother of two, uses these techniques to good effect in Secrets of the Baby Whisperer. Focusing on newborns and their parents, her simple programs are a blend of intelligent intuition and methods based on years of experience. The first half of the book is devoted to E.A.S.Y--her name for creating a structured daily routine for you and your baby that makes the most of your baby's awake times and also leaves time just for you. These concepts aren't designed to force your bundle of joy into not following her body's needs, but rather to create a feasible middle ground between total rigidity and on-demand food and sleep (and no time for mom to shower). If it still strikes you as too regimented, keep reading. The author makes room for differences in personal style and includes short quizzes to determine whether you're a "planner" or a "winger", and what level of daily structure you are likely to find helpful. In the same chapter, she identifies five general temperaments of infants, how to get an accurate feel for yours, and what methods of care are likely to be the most effective for his temperament. Her statement that babies prefer routine is backed up by research from the University of Denver. While most of the book relies on anecdotes to get the points across, Hogg does find room to back up some of her statements with quotes from various researchers and institutions. Included at the end of the book are assurances that E.A.S.Y. can be followed even with a colicky baby or one who's been ruling the roost for the first few months. Frustrated parents might like to read the last page first: "all the baby-whispering advice in the world is useless unless you're having a good time being a parent" is an excellent reminder to enjoy this time with all of its ups and downs. --Jill Lightner --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


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Hogg, an English nurse and founder of Baby Technique, a Los Angeles-based newborn and lactation consulting firm, has a way of calming and caring for babies that led one of her clients to dub her "the baby whisperer." In this, her first book, she teaches parents how to decipher "infants' language"Dtheir cries, gestures, and facial expressions. Her E.A.S.Y. (eat, activity, sleep, your time) method offers a relaxed, commonsense approach. Every aspect of care for mom and baby is covered, with interesting charts and clear references. There are many good books on baby care, such as Arlene Eisenberg and others' What To Expect the First Year (LJ 6/1/89), Jodi A Mindell's Sleeping Through the Night (LJ 6/1/97), and, of course, Dr. Spock's oeuvre, but this book possesses unusual tenderness and heart, and it respects babies as people, albeit little ones. For all public libraries and any parenting shelf, this is the perfect gift for a new mom and family.DAnnette V. Janes, Hamilton P.L., MA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not what is seems, Jul 12 2004
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Tracy Hogg claims this is a middle of the road approach. It isn't. As a parent and as a licensed marriage and family therapist, I have read most of the parenting books on the market. This book isn't much different from all of the other sleep training books out there. It is obvious it is written from the perspective of a babysitter rather than a medical doctor or psychologist. Her change a "bad" habit in three days is ridiculous and oversimplified. Yes, you can change a behavior if you are ruthless enough about it, but that doesn't mean you should. Picking up the baby and putting them back down repeatedly as she recommends might make you feel like you are doing something rather than just leaving them there to cry, but you aren't meeting the babies need for closeness. In one example she explains that in one night she picked up and put a baby down 172 times (when he cried, she picked him up and as soon as he stopped she put him down), how frustrating for this poor baby who was trying to communicate a need that went unmet. After several days, the baby gave up and didn't cry in his crib anymore. She cites this as an example of how great her training program is. Babies are people with needs. I met a family recently who used this approach and their baby responded to this program like a trained pup. She was complacent and passive. She slept through the night without a peep and from 8:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. Her daily routines involved videos, bottles, and crib-time with a bunch of pacifiers. No rocking, no lullabyes, definitely no nursing. It definitely was easy as her "E.A.S.Y." program implies. But, this kind of approach has negative long term effects. The mother said that the approach is great because her child doesn't have to "waste energy communicating her needs" because they tell her what she needs. This is a big premise of this book. I found this very sad. Children need to learn to identify their needs, communicate their needs, and have those needs met. In this process they learn to communicate and have healthy trusting relationships with others. These sleep training programs are based on behavioral psychological theories. The problem with this is that these approaches are more appropriate for animals, which is how these theories developed, and can be used for older children and adults for certain problems. But it is completely developmentally inappropriate to use these behavior modification approaches with human infants. The first 12 to 18 months of life the primary task of a human infant is to learn to trust. Books like this make the routine more important than the relationship. This causes significant long term relationship problems that the child will struggle with in the years to come. I see this every day in my practice-problems with intimacy and materialism, attaching and finding comfort in objects continuing later in life- the bottle, pacifier, and blankie become the cigarette, the alcoholic drink, the compulsive shopping, the compulsive eating, etc tomorrow. Of course the occasional use of a pacifier or bottle when mom isn't available is handy, but overrelying on mother substitutes as Tracy recommends is not good for your child. If you want to learn more about child development, go right to the source and study Winnicott, Kohut and Bowlby. Or if you want to read a book marketed to parents the only author I can recommend who is consistent with developmental needs is Dr. Sears.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not so great- disappointing and annoying, May 24 2004
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This book had a couple helpful things in it, but overall I was annoyed by her lack of objectivity (while pretending like she was presenting an unbias view). And I did find her tone condescending. I have had a lot of sleepless nights in the past 6 weeks which has given me a great opportunity to fly through baby care books. I have to say that I lean toward books written by doctors or sleep researchers that back up their suggestions with actual data and research. I am a total sucker for science and long bibliographies, and that is what I did not find in this book- just opinion. And sure her opinion will work fine for some babies, but some of her methods are potentially harmful (see other reviews for details). I found her E.A.S.Y. program to be meaningless- Eat Activity Sleep You- whatever! She kept referring to it like it was the meaning of life.
I find it quite amusing that she appropriated the "the ABC's of operant conditioning". She calls it her the "ABCs of Changing Bad Habits". I would have respected her more if she had admitted this was borrowed from learning theory and behavioral psychology instead of pretending like she invented it. She uses the same terms (Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence), but she totally misinterprets how it works. Instead of the common behavioral wisdom (change the consequence to change the behavior- brought to us courtesy of Skinner 50+ years ago and still valid), she says "Change the behavior to change the consequence". But how do you introduce a new behavior? She doesn't touch on that- her ABCs make no sense and just confirmed for me what I had suspected- that she skimmed books instead of doing real research.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Have questions? Need answers? Here they are..., Jan 9 2005
By Arla Kirk (Thunder Bay, Ontario) - See all my reviews
I have never written a book review before but felt compelled to when I read so many bad reviews of this book. The book is awesome! I have given it or recommended this book to every new mom friend that I have. One recipient of the book was sure that her baby had colic which 'disappeared' one week after implementing the authors suggestions!
Simply, the author suggests that you start as you mean to go on. That is, don't start anything that you don't mean to continue. She gives practical advice on how to deal with many situations and gives examples of many families dealing with what you might be dealing with.
For those readers who wrote reviews, "Don't let her tell you how to raise your children" readers need to get as much information as possible on the most important job you will ever have. Take to heart what is good and ignore what is not.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book!
I love this book! I have some reference books, which I'll read once in a while. But, I could not put this book down! Read more
Published 3 months ago by C. Gillespie

5.0 out of 5 stars Calming common sense for parents and babies
This is definitely the most helpful baby book I have read, and I have read several. Tracy applauds parents' wisdom by saying that every parent needs to take all the information... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Polly Winzeff

4.0 out of 5 stars It gives a parent some much needed direction
I am also very shocked by the number of people that gave negative reviews of this book. I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 stars because there are a few parts of the book that... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Gary L. Rutledge

4.0 out of 5 stars It's just okay..
First I must say I am glad this book was given to me as a gift rather than spending my own money on it. Read more
Published 19 months ago by J. Jennings

2.0 out of 5 stars Why don't you come over here and say that, "luv"?
This book had me in tears and feelng like a terrible mom. I'd seriously like this woman to come over here and try to put MY baby on her supposedly "EASY" program. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Iryssa

2.0 out of 5 stars Why don't you come over here and say that, "luv"?
This book had me in tears and feelng like a terrible mom. I'd seriously like this woman to come over here and try to put MY baby on her supposedly "EASY" program. Read more
Published on Nov 24 2007 by Iryssa

4.0 out of 5 stars Worked for us
Sorry to all of the people with negative opinions, but this book really helped me. As a first-time mother I was completely lost and Tracy gave me a map. Read more
Published on Nov 13 2007 by Heather Brady

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
I can't understand why some people are so against this book! The two that came recommended to me was this and Nina Ford. Read more
Published on Nov 7 2007 by syke930

1.0 out of 5 stars Only makes you MORE stressed...
I cannot even accurately describe how much I hate this book. The first night I read it, I could not sleep because it stressed me out about how I was screwing up my baby by not... Read more
Published on Oct 14 2007 by S. Adams

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a bad read overall
I am currently 33 weeks pregnant and just finished reading this book. So I don't know how 'reality' will be yet after the child is born. Read more
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