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 Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby :: 0345440900
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“TRACY HOGG HAS GIVEN PARENTS A GREAT GIFT–the ability to develop early insight into their child’s temperament.”
–Los Angeles Family
When Tracy Hogg’s Secrets of the Baby Whisperer was first published, it soared onto bestseller lists across the country. Parents everywhere became “whisperers” to their newborns, amazed that they could actually communicate with their baby within weeks of their child’s birth. Tracy gave parents what for some amounted to a miracle: the ability to understand their baby’s every coo and cry so that they could tell immediately if the baby was hungry, tired, in real distress, or just in need of a little TLC. Tracy also dispelled the insidious myth that parents must go sleepless for the first year of a baby’s life–because a happy baby sleeps through the night. Now you too can benefit from Tracy’s more than twenty years’ experience. In this groundbreaking book, she shares simple, accessible programs in which you will learn:
• E.A.S.Y.–how to get baby to eat, play, and sleep on a schedule that will make every member of the household’s life easier and happier.
• S.L.O.W.–how to interpret what your baby is trying to tell you (so you don’t try to feed him when he really wants a nap).
• How to identify which type of baby yours is–Angel, Textbook, Touchy, Spirited, or Grumpy–and then learn the best way to interact with that type.
• Tracy’s Three Day Magic–how to change any and all bad habits (yours and the baby’s) in just three days.
At the heart of Tracy’s simple but profound message: treat the baby as you would like to be treated yourself. Reassuring, down-to-earth, and often flying in the face of conventional wisdom, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer promises parents not only a healthier, happier baby but a more relaxed and happy household as well.
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Author: Guest
Her style of parenting & recommendations are not what feels right for us. It is natural for a baby to be very needy and a schedule should not be forced on an infant.
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Author: Guest
This book is amazing. After three or four days of getting our six week old son on this schedule his sleep at night has increased from 2-4 hours a night to 5-7 hours night almost instantly. I just wish I would of read this before the baby was born as we were falling into some of the bad habits she talks about (over stimulation, over feeding) that leads to fussy children and bad sleep patterns. MUCH happier parents and baby.
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Author: Guest
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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Author: Guest
I was disappointed with this book. Tracy Hogg is writing from the perspective of a nanny and that is apparant in her approach. It doesn't really discuss the relationship between parent and child. It focuses on a daily schedule of eating, activity, sleeping, and you time. I was offended by her opinions and attitudes about breastfeeding. If you are a stay at home mom who breastfeeds this book is definitely not for you. Perhaps if you are working full-time and need to have a scheduled baby and plan to bottle feed, then this book might fit your needs. Tracy's section on breastfeeding focuses on the downsides of breastfeeding making comments like "if you have body image issues, you shouldn't breastfeed, it will make your breasts sag" and "if you breastfeed past age one, you are doing it for yourself, not your baby". I find these comments interesting because the American Academy of Pediatrics has officially put out a recommendation that all babies be breastfeed for a minimum of one year and to continue breastfeeding for as long as is mutually beneficial. The former surgeon general has stated that all babies benefit from breastfeeding for at least one year and it is the lucky baby who gets to breastfeed until age 2. The world health organization has recommended breastfeeding until at least age two. These recommendations are based in the physical, emotional, and psychological benefits of breastfeeding. Tracy definitely minimizes the importance of breastfeeding in this book. Also, she minimizes sleep difficulties a baby may have and stresses that all babies must learn to fall asleep by themselves. However, at the same time she really advises using a pacifier and letting babies suck on the pacifier while falling asleep, I don't see how this is any different from nursing to sleep, which she strongly advises not to do,but she pushes bottles, pacifiers, and thumb sucking. I guess coming from a nanny's perspective these would be your primary tools in baby care.
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Author: Guest
This book is really annoying. The tone is smug - the author acts as if she invented sleep training - and the theory can be shaky, at best. I don't really think the time to start making your baby independent is the day she is born, and I was particularly offended by the little section on breastfeeding vs. formula. Any book that implies that studies proving breast feeding superior to formula feeding are somehow inaccurate is insane! I mean, we are all free to make our own decisions, but let's be honest with ourselves.Don't waste your time on this and don't give this irritating woman any more money!!!!
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