Calming Your Fussy Baby: The Brazelton Way

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Calming Your Fussy Baby: The Brazelton Way helps parents interpret the very first cries of an infant, and shows them how to respond in the most appropriate and effective way. Drs. Brazelton and Sparrow deal squarely with such urgent problems as colic, whining, and tantrums and show how the emergence of gestures and words gradually takes the place of crying as the child's way to act on the world. . Sleepless nights, wailing babies, defiant toddlers-these are universal issues for new parents. Now beloved pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton and his esteemed colleague the child psychiatrist Joshua Sparrow come to the rescue with these highly effective and affordable guides. Full of empathy, warmth, and wisdom, each book in the Brazelton Way series leads parents step-by-step through these trying struggles. Courtesy of Dr. Brazelton's unparalleled under-standing and experience, parents will emerge from the turmoil relieved, empowered, and full of new pleasure in the strength and progress of their individual child.

T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., founder of the Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital Boston, is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Emeri tus at Harvard Medical School. His many important and popular books include the international best s ellers Touchpoints and Infants and Mothers. Joshua D. Sparrow, M.D., Instructor in Psyc hiatry, Harvard Medical School, is Supervisor, Inp atient Psychiatry, at Children's Hospital, Boston, and Associate Director for Training at the Brazel ton Touchpoints Center.

Little Rock Family, February 2010 "Invaluable to new parents...A quick, easy to consult format...Shed[s] light on your new baby and help[s] you see the light at the end of the tunnel!"