The Happiest Baby on the Block; Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer

I will very rarely write a review on amazon, but I feel I have to with this book. This book literally saved my husband and I as first time parents! I will recommend this to anyone who is pregnant or wants to be a parent.Our beautiful daughter arrived and turned our world upside down, we had no clue what we were doing. The advise in the happiest baby made us feel we weren't crazy, bad parents, or had some miserable baby. The tips given work, and our baby is thriving and sleeping and most importantly quick to calm.I will be buying the happiest toddler book that is for certain!

I gave birth on the 27th of april and i have practised all the 5's mentioned in the book. The baby is now in his nearly 3rd week and he already had a good sleep routine. I really recommend you this book. In my case, worked miracles.

It’s a good book, simply written and contains a lot of useful information. Not everything in this book worked with my baby, but nonetheless was very helpful in learning the techniques to calm the baby down.

Good book with plenty of advice.

Excellent advice in this book. Make sure you buy proper large square swaddling cloth to get the most out of the techniques. I bough 44" swaddles made out of muslin and they were perfect.

Lifesaver book! Every new parent should read it before their little wonders arrive. Tried methods from it and they all worked with our son. Our days are much more peaceful now!

A lot of needless information from studies. I don't have the time or even space in my brain to hold the lengthy info regarding what some studies have researched about swaddling and why baby cries. All the info could have been summed up.The book has aprox 300 pages. All the relevant info could have been written on 150pages.Somewhat waste of time

Finally a book that makes sense and supports a mothers intuition.I read this just after giving birth to my son and I now recommend it to any new parent or preggo friends.

I must read for any new parent. I was struggling a lot with the newborn phase and this book completely changed my whole experience. I’m so grateful I found it. My baby was so much happier and I followed the practices in this book and my husband and I were so relieved.

Mycket bra med omfattande vetenskapligt stöd! Blandar fakta med instruktioner och exempel. Lätt att hoppa kapitel om man letar efter något särskilt. Provade de flesta trick och tips första veckan med bäbis och det mesta funkade omedelbart!

I'll preface by saying this book could probably be reduced by about 1/3 of it's length (there' a LOT of repeated information and sometimes he either bounces around to much between topics and/or takes too long to get to the point) BUT that doesn't change the fact that his techniques genuinely do work amazingly and we've found them to be a major help in knowing how to almost instantly calm our newborn son down when he's upset. There's probably nothing in here that's necessarily groundbreaking, but I think the strength of this book is that it lays out a very methodical and likewise comprehensive approach to how to address fussy and upset babies step-by-step as opposed to just trying random techniques you read/heard about from scattered sources until you find something that maybe works... We learned of the book from my brother who suggested just skipping over the the beginning segments and getting right to the 5 S's (a suggestion the book likewise makes if you're time-crunched and/or already have a fussy baby to contend with), but I read this book before our son was born (hence had a lot of time!) and I decided to read the whole thing and don't regret it. You won't really learn much outside of the chapters on the 5 S's that you can actually use to help your baby, but nonetheless I found it kind of interesting just to learn some of the history/context/info on the mindset of babies and why they do some of the things they do. I find it comical to read some of the Amazon reviews from people saying the book is a waste of time pointing out that you could just read about the 5 S's via a short article online - of course you could, but that kind of defeats the point of reading a comprehensive book and source of information on the particular topic that's much more thorough than a 1 page article can be. If you want to get the most out of the book and be well-prepared, take the time too read the book in my opinion, it's not that long and even for a slow reader like myself I got through it very quickly. Have definitely already recommended this book to several friends that are expecting!

Some of these concepts are intuitive for many people, but I’d argue that anybody can learn something from this book.

Very practical, real and grounded guide on handling a newborn baby through weeks 0 to 12, the fourth trinester. It is a great book walking parents through the very first days of parenthood, step by step. With a new born baby in hand, most of us are quite clueless on what to do with the baby, mostly helpless and sometimes even scared of how delicate the baby seems. This book truly is a life saver in empowering parents in handling their baby. Loved it thoroughly and Dr.Karp does a great job in keeping the narrative well sequenced.Pros-1) love the reassuring tone of Dr.Karp, he focuses on giving parents a lot of confidence and writes in a very understanding tone of the true difficulties parents face. His simple and effective methods are a life changer.2) Teachings are very practical, easy to follow and implement/experiment on what works with each unique baby, and well backed by research, evidence, analogies and short snippets from parents who have transformed using these techniques3) The book is well structured into 2 parts, Part-1 on why managing a new born is unique and hard and Part-2 on how to manage. One is free to follow any sequence suited and does not have to necessarily read in the chapter order of the book.4) Consistent message is handled, and there are many instances which are so very relatable to new parents. Contrasting that to olden days/indegenous cultures give a great insight into why parenting is so hard in today's context and how to cope with those struggles.Cons-1) Book gets repetitive during the read, literally same sentences are repeated several times in many chapters.2) For a book that speaks to calming babies and improving sleep, very little is spoken about sleep and feeding habits/nutrition suited for new born. In that sense, the book falls short of giving a rounded perspective to parents on the ingredients that makes a happy baby. For example, how many feeds, effect of light exposure on sleep routines etc are absent and not even cursorily spoken about.Verdict -Definitely worth the purchase, it's a fun read and is very relatable in the struggles explained and the understanding tone of communique makes it a beautiful reading experience.