Customer Reviews
made me feel like the worst mother in the world. - By: Mollie, 18 Jun 2008 
I bought this book, hoping to help me with my daughters sleeping, & routine. Instead it made me feel like the worst mother ever. I was trying to do things with her, that made no sense, kept trying to make her sleep alll the time, when she shouldn't have been. Such a terrible book, don't buy it, it will confuse you, & make you feel rubbish!!!!!
Not sure where to start - By: lani, 05 Jun 2008 
I think this would be an okay book if you felt that you have no idea how to take care of a baby. Like most parenting books. I picked it up after my baby was about 5 months old & found it useless, but I suppose if you had to it start with it might give you a couple of tips. My only advice would be to not take it as gospel & to pick & choose what you want to use & go by your own instinct.
Brilliant book! - By: S. Rouf, 25 May 2008 
I read this book when I had lots of time & was pregnant! It is a very good book & I would recommend it as I bought it off recommendation. I read Baby Whisperer along with Gina Fords Contented Little Baby & I must say that this book is more practical & works along side the baby rather then pushing the baby to do things it doesnt want to do! I still have this book by my bed!
Outdated and misinformed - badly needs updating - By: C. Copeman-Bryant, 23 Apr 2008 Apart from the interesting section on body-language, I found this technique to be full of misleading, out of date information. The recommendation to put babies into their own room before six months is in direct conflict with SIDS guidelines, & the "pick-up-put-down" technique must be utterly confusing for a tiny baby.
The author also has some strange ideas about breastfeeding, implying that demand feeding leads to a demanding baby (it doesn't) & that women who feed beyond the first year have deep psychological issues (they don't).
It's also centred on the very out-of-date idea that babies form habits early on, which has been proven not to be the case because the brain hasn't sufficiently developed to alllow them to do so before around four months. How can it be damaging to rock your baby in the first few months (another thing which has been proven to be beneficial to the brain development of babies) when they have been constantly rocked while in the womb?
The notion of spending your day in cycles of activity seems fair enough, but the book needs to be updated to reflect current guidelines & scientific & psychological discoveries.
Good, but not foolproof! - By: New Mum, 08 Apr 2008 
I got this book whilst still pregnant, & thought that this book would make parenting a walk in the park. Great little charts to help identify body language & crying sounds, different baby types, flexible but sensible routine, what could make understanding your baby be easier?
4 weeks after the birth of my little one, desperately trying to get a "spirited" baby (who I only later realised had colic & did not seem to quite follow the body language signals as described by Tracy) to sleep, I realised that things were not so straightforward, felt absolutely useless, & frequently wished that the late GF could make a flying visit just to tell me what on earth I was doing wrong!!
In short, if your baby is not an "Angel" or "Textbook" baby, or has any kind of physical discomfort, this book is too simplistic & can leave you feeling inadequate. However, it seems that after receiving countless emails from desperate mums, TH realised that EASY is not easy & that there were many pitfallls to her methods & wrote "The Baby Whisperer solves alll your problems", a follow-up book which I cannot recommend enough as an invaluable accompaniment.
Even if you don't manage to get your baby onto the EASY routine (I never quite did, 5 months on, my little one seems to change his habits or get into a growth spurt as soon as I more or less seem to get him onto it) the two books combined give you some reallly sound advice on baby care & psychology, the pitfallls of "accidental parenting" - establishing unwanted habits that are hard to break - & good ideas to help your baby to sleep which have proved reallly valuable.
Although I would probably not buy this book as a present for anyone, it is definitely worth having as a first-time parent & I would certainly recommend it over Gina Ford. Most importantly, buy it together with the follow-up book, the chances are you're going to need it!
