About this title: This advice book for parents and guardians gives tips on how to interpret baby cries, gestures, and facial expressions. The author divides babies into basic types (Angel, Textbook, Touchy, Spirited, and Grumpy) and then gives specific advice on how to interact with babies of each type.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780345440754ISBN:0345440757
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Nice hard cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to dust jacket, two page corners turned down, stk #2453L9. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"This moderate book was my favorite book on infant care. Like all baby books, there was a bit of pompousness, but at least the author's British background makes it seem a bit more charming and a bit less annoying. I found this to be a good balance between the on-demand vs. highly scheduled approaches. She advocates that you need to understand your baby's temperament in order to develop an appropriate environment for sleeping and eating (pretty much most of what a baby does in the first three months). She outlines 5 types of dispositions and gives tips on how to handle each type. There are also helpful details on swaddling, burping, etc. which were all new to me."
"This is the best baby book I've read thus far. Of course, I realize that not everyone shares my views but I loved it! The "baby schedule" is basically the same as Babywise except she doesn't believe in the "Cry-it-out" method. She focuses a lot on really communicating with your baby and learning what the baby is trying to say-- which is important to me. Another big concept that she focuses on that I LOVE is this: Respect your baby. Is is so basic and obvious yet I see a lot of opposite going on around me. I highly recommend this book, but like all baby/parenting books you have to decide what kind of parent you will be."
"only 3 stars because these books feel more like chores than anything else. she gave a ton of really useful (i think) information and i am hoping to be able to use a lot of it when the babies come. it contradicted a lot of what i had been reading in my other baby book but i think she's got a point in terms of building independence in your baby at a young age and not letting him/her (or, in my case, both) rule your life. (it's going to be hard not to do some of the things that she says form bad habits later on, because seriously, is there anything cuter than a baby falling asleep in your arms?!).
i love all the charts she gives for how to read your baby's signals and the E.A.S.Y. structure she outlines seems like a good balance between a strict schedule and no schedule at all. i also really liked her explanation of what activities babies might enjoy at certain stages of development. i also appreciated her emphasis on respecting your baby and treating it like a person...so obvious but i see parents constantly talking to their baby in gibberish or treating/talking about it more like a thing than a human. i did get a little annoyed by all the "luvs" and other cutesy slang and cringed whenever she would write out what she says to babies. it also struck me as being written almost exclusively for moms, as if dads don't need to know this stuff too."
"I will not be reading anymore baby parenting books...I don't think I can stomach anymore. This one was better than the other two that I had recently read but still not fantastic. Her chapter about breast feeding and bottle feeding was the best. She was not critical of other methods or parenting "experts" which was refreshing.
One minor irritation was that she threw in the words "luv" and "ducky" every other sentence. It seemed that she is a little insecure in her British heritage and had to prove it to us in this way. A bigger irritation was how she teaches respecting the baby (which is good) but so often showed so little respect for the mothers and parents that she worked with. She was often self-righteous & patronizing and did not respect others as competent adults. She had a chapter that discussed adoption among other things. It wasn't a good chapter and I don't believe she knows much about adoption and it kind of made me wonder what else does she not know that she is writing about as an expert."
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