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The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems: Sleeping, Feeding, and Behavior--Beyond the Basics from Infancy Through Toddlerhood


by Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau

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Sales Rank: 6403
Studio: Atria
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: January 03, 2006
Publisher: Atria


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Product Description
The third book in the bestselling Baby Whisperer series -- the most comprehensive, up-close, and personal to date!

Thousands of parents have asked the Baby Whisperer to help them solve their problems. With this book you too can take advantage of the advice, insights, and parenting techniques from beloved child expert Tracy Hogg. "A problem is nothing more than a situation calling for a creative solution," she reminds us. "Ask the right questions and you'll come up with the right answers."

Once you learn how to translate banguage, the "baby-language" your infant uses to communicate needs, feelings, and opinions, you can see your child for who he or she really is -- an understanding that will serve you well as your child blossoms into the toddler years. By helping you establish a daily routine and tailor your parenting strategies according to your child's unique personality and stage of development, Tracy will teach you how to:

• Ask the Twelve Essential Questions to recognize potential problems and employ the Twelve Principles of Problem Solving -- simple troubleshooting techniques for everyday situations

• Avoid, or remedy, accidental parenting -- inadvertent adult behavior that often leads to such common parenting challenges as sleep problems, poor eating habits, separation anxiety, and tantrums

• Be a P.C. parent -- patient and conscious -- who knows how to detect prime times -- windows of opportunity for teaching babies how to get to sleep on their own, introducing bottles to breast-fed babies, toilet training, and other growth issues

• Inhibit runaway emotions and foster his or her emotional fitness -- the ability to understand and manage feelings

...and so much more. For Tracy's fans, this book will be a welcome addition to the Hogg library; for readers unfamiliar with her philosophy of care, it will open a new world of understanding and insight.



CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 89 reviews)

Fabulous addition to her first book  
I read Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby while I was pregnant, and found that a lot of the ideas were useful with my newborn. In particular, the descriptions of how to tell when your baby was sleepy were invaluable, and I also found that feeding her right after she woke instead of feeding her to sleep was helpful. Unlike my first baby, who was always nursed to sleep, my four-month-old falls asleep on her own quite happily, and I know this has a lot to do with my following many of Hoggs' suggestions. However, I was still struggling with bedtime - naps in the day were fine, but I couldn't get my baby down at night at a reasonable time, and when I did, she woke up half an hour later and was up until midnight. The first baby whisperer book didn't have much help for this.

This book does! It explains in far more detail the kinds of transitions you'll want to make as your baby grows older, and it turns out that yes, my baby can go for longer without food now, and she does actually seem happier that way. It has a lot of specific discussion about how to get a baby to sleep without letting her cry it out, and about how to deal with too-short-naps and so on. There's also more information right up until toddlerhood.

This is my favourite baby parenting book - but obviously you have to find a book that suits your personality and the kinds of things that are important to you in parenting. If you want a really rigid schedule, try The New Contented Little Baby Book. If you want to co-sleep but still have your baby sleep for more than half an hour at a time, try The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night. If you want to do the cry-it-out solution, get Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems: New, Revised, and Expanded Edition.
September 03, 2008

Great reference book  
I received the first book 5 years ago from my aunt. Tremendously helpful. Well, I gave that one away. While searching for the first book, The Baby Whisperer, for a friend of mine, I came across this one. I have read through it and it reminded me of everything required for a healthy, happy, baby and family. I have marked all my pages for reference and will be checking it often. I recommend this book for all mommies as a fantastic reference.
August 31, 2008

I hate this book!  
Everytime I read something out of this book, I come away feeling like a failure as a parent. Ask my husband: he has to talk me down every time. I don't know why we still have the book laying around. The author is condescending, anti- attachment parenting, and anti-cosleeping. I hate, hate, hate the term "accidental parenting" that she throws around to cover everything from nursing your child to sleep babywearing. I disagree with one the previous reviewers (who also reviewed this book poorly), although perhaps our babies are different ages. I think The Whisper does encourages Crying It Out, at least for older babies.
I highly recommend chucking this book in the trash and checking out Dr. Jay Gordon, the Sears', or Elizabeth Pantley.
August 28, 2008

THIS BOOK CHANGED MY LIFE - A MUST HAVE  
Seriously, this book changed my family's life, I have no words to express what it's done for my baby. I love the book and love the writer, she was so amazing!!!!
Expecting parents and new moms: You need this book
August 25, 2008

it really solves your problems  
Thank you Tracy for leaving us your wisdom through these pages. It's amazing how you make us think on the right & wrong things we've been doing as parents & how to fix these mistakes.
July 19, 2008


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