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Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby
Melinda Blau, Tracy Hogg
3.54 AVERAGE
112 reviews for:
Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby
Melinda Blau, Tracy Hogg
3.54 AVERAGE
There are some very useful tips in this book, but it's only getting 2 stars (should be 2.5) because there's some fairly misleading information about breastfeeding. The most useful things I took from this book were to relate to my baby as an independent (if limited) being from the beginning, to talk with him and explain what I'm doing as I go, and to create routines.
Helpful for me as a first time mother. The advice provides insight into your baby and tips on establishing a routine rather than a rigid schedule, which works for my style. Very logical pointers that are not too hard to follow and can help in those first challenging months with a newborn!
This is definitely a must for all parents of newborns and young babies. I loved almost everything Tracy had to say. She is so logical in her approach to infant care. She shows how little humans need to be recognized as such. They thrive on routine and are always giving you clues as to what they need. I already understand my daughters’ needs better! Can’t wait to apply her techniques and work on fixing my mistakes.
At first the advice in this book seemed so logical that I was excited to have a plan for how to be a mom for the first time. Once my son arrived, I decided that this book was evil.
Hogg's basic idea isn't terrible - it's the guilt she assigns to anyone who doesn't use or can't follow her method. I was in tears more than once because I felt like a failure when her advice wasn't working. One day I literally threw the book against a wall with frustration. I think that action surprised enough to see how ridiculous it was to call myself a failure because her method wasn't working for my son and me.
I found other methods and other sources of advice that didn't heap on so much guilt and my son and I are enjoying each other very much now.
Hogg's basic idea isn't terrible - it's the guilt she assigns to anyone who doesn't use or can't follow her method. I was in tears more than once because I felt like a failure when her advice wasn't working. One day I literally threw the book against a wall with frustration. I think that action surprised enough to see how ridiculous it was to call myself a failure because her method wasn't working for my son and me.
I found other methods and other sources of advice that didn't heap on so much guilt and my son and I are enjoying each other very much now.
A helpful explanation on how to understand your baby's communication and needs. It was encouraging that she often reinforced that your baby is an individual and that there is no hard and fast rules for baby behavior.
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THIS IS THE GREATEST BABY BOOK! She has practical solutions so you can sleep again! (um, I mean, your baby can sleep again~)
She doesn't have a one solution fits all theory. She encourages you to know your baby and then provides help for you to help your baby....
She doesn't have a one solution fits all theory. She encourages you to know your baby and then provides help for you to help your baby....
Hogg makes some good points in this book, particularly regarding realizing a newborn is a fully sentient being, that it is intelligent, and to treat it with respect. Beyond that, I didn't get much out of this book. Her tone is condescending, and her assertion that you MUST do it her way or you're doing it wrong is ridiculous. Her audience is likely people who really need to understand the balance between intuitively knowing what newborns need, and what regiment they must apply. Sadly, that's the audience that will throw this book out the window because she's so heavy-handed about it.
This book is so full of misinformation that it would be comical if Tracy Hogg wasn't intending for it to be actual parenting advice. I should have known that a woman who left her own children across the ocean to become a "parenting consultant" for Hollywood families would have nothing useful to say about actual parenting. Seriously - check out the reviews on the back cover - they are all from actors, producers, etc. rather than from pediatricians, nurses, or (gasp!) ACTUAL PARENTS.
Just a few reasons why I hate this book:
1) She calls herself a "lactation educator" and then proceeds to outline a feeding plan that will virtually guarantee a loss of milk supply. I'm pretty sure the Similac and Enfamil literature is more pro-breastfeeding than Hogg.
2) She believes that if your baby is not sleeping through the night by 3 months old, it is because you have trained your baby to wake up.
3) She thinks that a newborn baby can go 3-4 hours between feedings.
4) She refers to the reader as "ducky" and "luv" and has a condescending tone that grates on the nerves almost as much as her misinformation.
Her "EASY" routine is fine, but that is the only good nugget of information in this book, and that same routine can be found from about a million different sources. I get the feeling that Hogg really screwed up with her own kids and is now trying to make herself feel better by screwing up kids all over America.
Just a few reasons why I hate this book:
1) She calls herself a "lactation educator" and then proceeds to outline a feeding plan that will virtually guarantee a loss of milk supply. I'm pretty sure the Similac and Enfamil literature is more pro-breastfeeding than Hogg.
2) She believes that if your baby is not sleeping through the night by 3 months old, it is because you have trained your baby to wake up.
3) She thinks that a newborn baby can go 3-4 hours between feedings.
4) She refers to the reader as "ducky" and "luv" and has a condescending tone that grates on the nerves almost as much as her misinformation.
Her "EASY" routine is fine, but that is the only good nugget of information in this book, and that same routine can be found from about a million different sources. I get the feeling that Hogg really screwed up with her own kids and is now trying to make herself feel better by screwing up kids all over America.