Calming Your Fussy Baby: The Brazelton Way

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 understanding and experience, parents will emerge from the turmoil relieved, empowered, and full of new pleasure in the strength and progress of their individual child.

Contents

Your baby's language
How your baby communicates
Crying
Smiling
Body Language
Self-soothing
Cooing 'Getting it right'
Touchpoints of communication
Newborn crying
Crying and temperament
Irritable fussing at 3 weeks ('Colic')
4 to 6 weeks
8 weeks
4 months
7 to 8 months
10 months
A toddler's cries
The messages in a child's cries
Attention getting
Breath-holding
Fear of independence
Nightmares and fears
Sadness
Separation
Small for dates babies
Temper tantrums
Whining

About the Authors

T Berry Brazelton is the founder of the Prestigious Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital Boston and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School.

Joshua D Sparrow is Supervisor of Inpatient Psychiatry at Children's Hospital Boston and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Target Audience: General public, parents.