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“Start as you mean to go on.”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby

“Remember that everything you do teaches your baby. Therefore, when you put him to bed by cuddling him on your chest or rocking him for forty minutes, in effect you’re instructing him. You’re saying, “This is how you get to sleep.” Once you go down that road, then you’d better be prepared to cuddle and rock him for a long, long time.”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“It takes patience and a calm environment. It takes strength and stamina. It takes respect and kindness. It takes responsibility and discipline. It takes attention and keen observation. It takes time and practice—a lot of doing it wrong before you get it right. And it takes listening to your own intuition. Notice how often”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“Una rutina estructurada no es lo mismo que un «horario». Es importante repetir esto: la vida de un bebé no puede ajustarse a las agujas de un reloj.”
― Tracy Hogg, Guía práctica para tener bebés tranquilos y felices

“When you rock any type of baby, sway back and forward, not side to side or up and down. Before your baby was born, she sloshed around front to back inside you as you walked, so she’s used to, and comforted by, that kind of movement.”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“Back home, being a nanny—or a governess, as we often say—is a recognized profession, regulated by strict laws. A nanny hopeful must train for three years at an accredited nanny college. I was surprised when I came here to find that you need a license to file nails but nothing to look after children.”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“You will be a mum until the day you draw your last breath.”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“one must walk a fine line between responding and rescuing. A baby whose parents respond becomes a secure child who’s not afraid to venture forth. A baby whose parents continually rescue begins to doubt his own capabilities and never develops the strength and skills he needs to explore his world or to feel comfortable in it.”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“In any case, when a woman doesn’t want to breastfeed, we need to support her and we need to stop heaping on the guilt. We also have to stop using the word commitment only in connection with breastfeeding. Any kind of feeding regimen takes commitment.”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“I pat probably seven to ten minutes after the baby has calmed down. Even if he’s quiet, I don’t stop until I’m fairly sure he has his complete focus on it, and then I start to slow the patting down more and more. Finally, I also stop the shush. Continue the shush-pat until he settles. If he cries, pick him up again, and do the shush-pat with him on your shoulder. When you put him down again, continue to pat him and see if he starts up again. If he does, pick him up and calm him down again.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“More than five and a half hours of sleep during the day will throw the three-hour routine off kilter and cause a baby to stay up all night.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“Because parents tend to allow more TV-watching and computer games in the third year, it’s not surprising that nightmares go with the territory.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“Humans, at any age, are habitual creatures—they function better within a regular pattern of events. Structure and routine are normal to everyday life. Everything has a logical order. As my Nan says, “You can’t add eggs to the pudding after it’s baked.”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“Billions of dollars are spent annually convincing us we must create a proper “environment” for our babies, and parents buy into the idea big time. They think that if they’re not constantly entertaining their baby, they’re somehow failing her, because she’s not getting enough “intellectual stimulation.”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“The calmer you can keep children, the better they’ll be at sleeping”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“Every baby is a person who has language, feelings, and a unique personality—and, therefore, deserves respect.”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“Adam did not become magically more cooperative. He was still manipulative and tested his parents, but now at least his parents were taking the lead, instead of following their child.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“Educar bien exige paciencia, porque es un camino duro, difícil y aparentemente interminable; un proyecto que requiere una perspectiva a largo plazo.”
― Tracy Hogg, Guía práctica para tener bebés tranquilos y felices

“Whenever your baby wakes in the middle of the night, for whatever reason, never be too playful or friendly. Be loving, take care of the problem, but be careful not to give your baby the wrong idea. Otherwise, she might wake up the next night wanting to play.”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“If you miss your baby’s sleep window, or try to extend his awake time in the name of getting him to sleep longer (another myth), it’s going to be a lot harder to teach him the skills of settling down.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“Why would a parent want to put her child in a box with bars in a dark room all by herself?”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“Unlike England, where a home health aide nips over every day during the first fortnight and several times a week for the next two months, many new parents in America don’t have anyone around to guide them through the early days.”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“schedule is about time slots whereas E.A.S.Y. is about keeping up the same daily pattern—eating, activity and sleeping—and repeating that pattern every”
― Tracy Hogg, The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems: By teaching you have to ask the right questions

“When I delved deeper, Shannon admitted that she had tried the controlled crying method “once or twice” over the last several months but gave it up because “it never worked.” Each time Shannon had done a complete 180-degree turn on her daughter. She’d left her to cry it out, and then started to pick her up again.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“I can’t say this often enough: a baby who has been traumatized by abandonment often has more severe sleep problems at this age, and solutions take longer. With tough cases I bring in a blow-up bed and sleep in the child’s room at least for the first night.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“Also, some babies have an allergic reaction to the absorbent granules in disposable diapers, a condition sometimes confused with diaper rash. The difference is that diaper rash is localized, usually around the anus, whereas with an allergy the rash will span the entire area covered by the diaper, up to the waist.”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“Don’t allow your baby to sleep longer than 45 minutes to an hour during the day for the first three days.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“For example, I recommend to parents who carry their infants around in order to get them to sleep that they try doing that for half an hour with a twenty-pound sack of potatoes. Is that what you want to be doing a few months from now?”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“I just can’t get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat. —Anne Lamott in
Operating Instructions”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

“realistic: The postpartum period is difficult—a rocky terrain. All but a rare few stumble along the way. (More about Mum recuperating during the postpartum period in Chapter 7.) Believe me, I know that the moment you get home, you’ll probably feel overwhelmed. But if you follow my simple homecoming ritual, you’re less likely to feel frantic. (Remember,”
― Tracy Hogg, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer