I AM A FIRST TIME MOTHER AND THIS BOOK CONTAINS ALOT OF VALUBLE INFO. THIS WAS MY FIRST PREGNANCY AND I WAS NOT SURE OF WHAT TO DO, WHEN TO DO IT, HOW TO DO IT AND SO ON. ONCE I HAD MY BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL, IT ALSO PROVIDED ALOT OF INFORMATION ON BREASTFEEDING, BATHING, MASSAGING AND NIGHT TIME HINTS. THIS BOOK IS A GREAT ASSET FOR A FIRST TIME MOM AND I RECCOMEND IT VERY HIGHLY!

I found this book whilst on holiday in North America. The wonderful pictures and clear written style/layout made it easy to follow. It is packed with information and covers every topic a new parent needs to know. It really does go that little bit extra. Worth every dime.

Mr. Taubman enabled us to manage our baby when everything else failed. His methods teach you to determine quickly and effectively what works and what doesn't work to "cure" your babies' colic.

This book is a concise book for parents who want to know exactly what is going on with their child's health. I have bought 17 child health books. I have kept this one and thrown the 16 others away. Information in most child health books are too vague and misleading. This book is accurate and therefor can be truly useful. The other books just take up space.

This book offers flow charts that attempt to complicate a simple process: Your baby is crying because it is wet, hungry, tired, needs to suck,or needs stimulation. The author attempts to put into a book those things which are common sense - if you try to sooth your baby one way, and your attempt is not successful, try something else.

Also, the author apparently subscribes to the Attachment Parenting philosophies, and therefore offers very biased suggestions to soothing techniques to be used. He leaves out other methods that can work.

I bought this book 11 years ago when my son was born. I credit this book with my son never developing "colic". When he cried, we quickly went through the list of needs the book describes and he, without fail, stopped crying. Funny, turns out he was mostly hungry when I was "sure" he could not possibly be, but he was. I give this book to every friend that has a newborn and they all agree, it saved them from lots of crying. If your new baby is having long crying episodes, get this book immediately. It will save your sanity and because you can meet the needs of your crying baby, you will develope confidence in your parenting skills.

Previously published in a Simon & Schuster edition as "Curing Infant Colic," the White Hat Communications edition of Dr. Bruce Taubman's Why is My Baby Crying?: The 7-Minute Program For Soothing The Fussy Baby has been completely revised and updated. Written by Dr. Bruce Taubman, by an active staff member of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Why Is My Baby Crying? provides a step-by-step, process of elimination approach to determining how to understand what your infant is trying to tell you. Written expressly for parents in clear, unambiguous language, Why Is My Baby Crying? explains what infant colic syndrome is and isn't, why some well-intentioned advice is unwise to follow, and how to soothe the seemingly impossible child. Highly recommended for pediatric and community library parenting book collections, Why Is My Baby Crying? is a "must" for any new parents!