The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems: Sleeping, Feeding, and Behavior--beyond the Basics from Infancy through Toddlerhood » (Reprint)

Tracy Hogg, RNMH, considered a "modern-day Mary Poppins" by the many whose lives she touched, died in 2004. Her legacy lives on in her bestselling books — Secrets of the Baby Whisperer and Secrets of the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers, which she also coauthored with Melinda Blau — as well as her television series, consulting enterprise, and website. Visit www.babywhisperer.com to learn more.

Melinda Blau is an award-winning journalist and author of twelve books. Known for her writing about families and children, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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

• Inhibitrunaway 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.

Contents

Introduction: From Baby Whispering to Problem Solving

My Most Important Secret

One: E.A.S.Y. Isn't Necessarily Easy (But It Works!)

Getting Your Baby on a Structured Routine

Two: Even Babies Have Emotions

Gauging Moods in the First Year

Three: Your Baby's Liquid Diet

Feeding Issues in the First Six Months

Four: Food Is More Than Nourishment

Solid Foods and Eating Happily Ever After

Five: Teaching Babies How to Sleep

The First Three Months and the Six Troubleshooting Variables

Six: Pick Up/Put Down

A Sleep Training Tool — Four Months to a Year

Seven: "We're Still Not Getting Enough Sleep"

Sleep Problems after the First Year

Eight: Taming Toddlers

Teaching Children to Be Emotionally F.I.T.

Nine: E. E. A. S. Y. Does It

The Case for Early Toilet Training

Ten: Just When You Think You've Got It...Everything Changes!

Twelve Essential Questions and Twelve Principles of Problem Solving

Index