Natural Product Reviews

The Happiest Baby on the Block - The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Baby Sleep Longer (DVD)

Submitted by: Whitney Codington; Amsterdam, NY
Rating: 8
Where to buy:  Amazon.com

 

Description:  Do you learn better by watching rather than reading? Here is a chance to see how to transport your baby from screaming into serenity…in minutes. Watch as, step-by-step, Dr. Karp teaches new parents how to switch on their baby’s powerful calming reflex. In English and Spanish “The Happiest Baby” Dr. Karp reveals a treasure sought by new parents for centuries… the “calming reflex” (the automatic “off-switch” for any baby’s crying). No wonder thousands of Los Angeles parents, from working moms to superstars like Madonna and Michelle Pfeiffer have turned to Dr. Karp to learn his secrets for making babies happy.

Elisabeth Bing author and co-founder of Lamaze International say, “The Happiest Baby on the Block is fun, fascinating and convincing. I highly recommend it to all new parents.”

The DVD has a running time of 38 minutes and also contains 3 bonus chapters:

1) Dr. Karp answers 25 questions from parents about calming babies and helping them sleep.
2) A Spanish dubbed audio track of the entire 38-minute teaching video.
3) Three tracks of calming white-noise sound that is an extraordinary mix of womb sounds and a newly designed pulsation that babies love (even though it sounds a little odd to the ears of an adult)

Each track can be played individually, played in sequence or repeated for hours to gently guide your baby into a deep level of relaxation. This video is designed in NTSC not PAL or SECAM. It is meant for use in most countries in the Western Hemisphere as well as Japan, South Korea, Greenland, Guam, Samoa, and the Philippines.

Review: This video proved to be a lifesaver for me. My baby would wake up every couple hours during the night screaming and screaming. We brought her to the doctor but he said she was healthy so we started doing some research on the Internet. That’s when I came across this wonderful video. It is full of new research and tips that quiet babies right down. My screaming baby quieted down after 10 minutes and is now able to sleep half way through the night without waking up. By making the specific sounds gently into her ear, she calms down almost instantly.

The suggestions come from looking at life from your baby’s perspective. I would definitely recommend the video over the book because it allows you to hear and imitate the sounds. Besides, who feels like reading when they’re deprived of sleep by a fussing baby all the time? The video has even made my husband more confident about dealing with our daughter because he is able to quiet her right down too.  I have talked to a few of my friends about this video and discovered that starting the techniques as soon as the baby is born makes them most successful. 
 

Filed under: Baby Stuff, Mama Stuff on August 2nd, 2007