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The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer (精装)
by Harvey Karp
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Baby care, Parenting |
| Market price: ¥ 248.00
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¥ 228.00
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MSL rating:
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| MSL Pointer Review:
A great resource with helpful advice, this book has received rave reviews and is definitely a must have for all parents. Best get it with DVD. |
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James McKenna (Ph.D., director, Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory) (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-12 00:00>
A witty and masterful book bursting with wisdom from start to finish. It contains some of the best, most original ideas about new babies I have ever seen. Dr. Karp entertains as he teaches, providing wonderful and innovative suggestions in a family-friendly way.
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Martin Stein, M.D., Professor of pediatrics, University of California, San Diego Medical School, USA
<2007-02-12 00:00>
What a marvelous book! Parents for years to come will be grateful to Dr. Karp for this lucid and entertaining explanation of why babies cry and how to help them.
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Sandra Apgar Steffes (R.N., M.S., member, Board of Directors, Lamaze International), USA
<2007-02-12 00:00>
Harvey Karp is the type of pediatrician that every parent would want. His experience is beyond compare and his ability to relate to parents is impressive. The Happiest Baby on the Block has the perfect solutions for helping parents grow and thrive... along with their babies.
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Elisabeth Bing (Author and co-founder of Lamaze International), USA
<2007-02-12 00:00>
The Happiest Baby on the Block is fun, fascinating and convincing. I highly recommend it to all new parents to help them accomplish one of their most important jobs... soothing their crying baby. |
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Steven P. Shelov, M.D. (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-12 00:00>
Dr. Karp's practical approach is a superb way to help babies when they are crying or upset. All who care for children will gain greatly from this new addition to our parenting library.
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Morris Green, M.D. (Perry W. Lesh Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine), USA
<2007-02-12 00:00>
This beautifully written volume meets a tremendous need for a scientifically sound and effective parent guide to the care of persistently crying babies. Dr. Karp has written the best book that I've read on this challenging topic.
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Paula Keenan (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-12 00:00>
As a mom with a baby with colic, I couldn't get my hands around this book fast enough. If you have a baby with colic you will appreciate not just chapter 2 but the entire book. When you have a collicky baby, everybody becomes an expert and tries to tell you what will work and when it doesn't, as a new parent it's discouraging. The book dispels some of the colic myths and helps a parent understand what colic really is and how to help your baby through it. If I heard one more helpful person suggest gas drops for our inconsolable screamer i was going to cry. This book is a must read for anyone with an inconsolable baby like ours and it has great information even for those who don't.
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M. Kees (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-12 00:00>
This book is an absolute must have for new parents. Dr. Karp gives solid advice and recommendations for caring for infants in the first few months. His 5 S's are highly effective and very easy to use. The first half of the book is mostly on his theories; which are good theories, but there is some repetition. The second half of the book goes into each of the 5 S's in detail. He gives great suggestions on many different ways to calm, comfort, and soothe your baby. I have bought this book for friends and family with new babies, and highly recommend it to others.
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Katie (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-12 00:00>
I found this book to be extremely helpful. Although my daughter is not what most would consider a fussy baby, ALL babies have their inconsolable moments, and these techniques work. Also, it is a quick read (if anything can be considered such to a new mom!) and although other reviewers have criticized Dr. Karp's writing style, I personally enjoyed it.
When I was pregnant, I glanced through this book without much interest - I thought that I was more philosophically in line with the "Babywise" methods, but all of that changed when my daughter was born. I found that the idea of scheduled feedings felt very wrong to me, and I realized that I was incapable of letting her cry if it was in my power to calm her with nusing , cuddling, etc. At the times when these things failed to soothe her, I could feel myself breaking out in a cold sweat, my anxiety climbing. It just felt wrong to say that all babies cry with no reason, or (as my in-laws constantly told me) that I would spoil her by calming her cries and that she needed to "exercise her lungs". Without this book, I would have felt that I had no response to these criticisms and nothing else to try.
As I said before, my daughter has been pretty calm with occasional periods of fussiness or sleeplessness. During these times I can always calm her with the 5 S's (minus swaddling - she has hated that from the start, for some reason). For me the most valuable thing about this book was its compelling argument that you cannot spoil a newborn and that you should treasure the "fourth trimester" as a time to hold, love, and bond with your baby without worrying about creating bad habits, spoiling, establishing rigid routines, etc. Now that my daughter's magical first three months are over, I don't have to look back and regret that I let her cry too long or that I didn't hold her more. |
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Joseph Erhard-Hudson (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-12 00:00>
This book is one of the best books on babies I've ever read, and one of the worst written, and I think you should buy it.
Now don't get me wrong. I love the information in this book, and I'm fond of the author's voice. Our first baby was fussy, fussy, fussy, and screamed for hours each night. 8 years later, we had our second baby and a copy of The Happiest Baby on the Block and life was so very different. I regularly amazed family and friends with my ability to instantly calm our screaming little girl. Everything our culture told me about how to calm our first baby was wrong, and everything Dr. Karp told me about babies the second time was right.
But the writing is incredibly bad. Dr. Karp babbles, there's no other way to put it. He takes 10 times as many words and pages to say anything than he really needs. If I were his English teacher I would give him a C-, hand him back his paper, and tell him he could raise his grade by making it one quarter the length. Of course, then he wouldn't have a book long enough to publish...
By all means buy this book if you have a newborn, or are expecting, or have a friend with a baby. The ideas are so useful and sensible that they are truly revolutionary for a culture that has lost so much knowledge of how to raise truly happy babies. But when you read it, think of it as spending a long evening with your old uncle, who never tells a story straight through, but has nuggets of true wisdom you can't get anywhere else.
5 stars for content, 1 star for form, bonus star for being so likeable. |
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