The bestselling authors of The Baby Book present a reassuring and wonderfully practical guide for parents of fussy babies and difficult children. Some helpful hints include proven baby calmers, a checklist of medical factors parents should watch for, sound advice on discipline, and much more.

Reviews: Intense feelings, hyperactivity, persistence, high demand for sucking and for touch, and hypersensitivity characterize the high-need baby, the Searses say, but altogether can also leave a new mother or father feeling overwhelmed, even burned out. To nurture, guide, and cope with such a child, they recommend the approach they label attachment parenting; it includes such techniques as on-demand feeding and weaning; nighttime parenting; sharing sleep; soothing through motion, sound, visual distraction, and physical contact; and learning via close study how to anticipate the baby's needs. Based on personal experience and professional practice, their practical advice should be easy to follow for parents who have grown unsure of their skills. More important, the Searses' many tips on how to care for oneself, stay positive, and avoid worry, exhaustion, and burnout constitute essential advice. Parents are the only experts the Searses cite, so convincingly that they help "make" this overdue addition to parenting literature

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