Happiest Baby: Learn to calm crying fast...help your baby sleep longer!

I bought this for our grandson and his wife after the birth of their first baby. They felt it was a very helpful tool for navigating a newborn.

I bought this DVD because a fellow new Mommy friend said I HAVE TO WATCH IT before our little one arrives. She said they had a really tough first three weeks with their newborn, until someone recommended this DVD to them. After they watched it, they learned how to comfort and calm their son and things finally went smoothly afterwards. She said they wished they had heard about this video BEFORE their son was born instead of after the fact. It would have saved them 3 weeks of sleepless nights. Now I see why. As soon as it arrived, I put the DVD in to watch it. I was completely surprised and enlightened to learn the different techniques to comfort and calm our baby. The Pediatrician explains 5 different techniques that work to immediately calm your baby. They work because they trigger a baby's natural reflex, much like a knee reflex in an adult. My husband walked in before the technique instructions even started and paused to watch a minute or so. Then he said, "So I can calm her by putting her on her side like that?" I just giggled. He was in and out while this video was on and asked me what I was watching. When I told him and he realized that we now own this DVD he actually got excited. He asked if I could leave it out for him to watch on his own. I was SHOCKED at his peaked interest. After watching this DVD, I feel so much more prepared for our little one's arrival. I feel more confident that I have 5 new things to try with her to cam her down when she cries. This DVD includes other questions and answers that I found extremely helpful as well. THIS will be my go-to Baby Shower gift from now on!!! If you're even thinking twice about do you really need this, trust me, you DO. You'll thank me later!!!!!

My brother used these techniques with my neice when she arrived last year. Watching, I became annoyed at how tightly he swaddled her and how loudly he "shushed" in her ear. But her reaction was amazing! She suddenly became quiet with her eyes as big as saucers, completely calmed. My husband and I just purchased the DVD ourselves and watched it last night, and we could hardly believe how baby after baby after baby was calmed using the 5S's. Our baby is due next month, and we are anxious to use the techniques we learned in the video. I have three friends who are pregnant now, and I will be purchasing this DVD as shower gifts. This was a great find, and I highly recommend it! *********UPDATE Well, we now know first-hand that the techniques work! Our baby had her personal fussy time (not colic) every evening, and the ONLY thing that calmed her was the blend of the Happiest Baby techniques. She wasn't a big swaddle fan, but it helped her sleep. The shushing and side holding were instant calmers when she had her meltdowns in the evening, and the shushing alone would calm her on car rides. You MUST buy this DVD if you are expecting! The book is great, too!

I read the 5s Technique several times. I tried them, I failed at them. I have a newborn daughter who will scream all day and all night, no matter what. I thought it was a bunch of crap. But every time I turn to someone for help, they would recommend this book, but I thought how can it be such a miracle if it does not work. I bought the digital copy and watched it online, so nothing about shipment and damaged discs affects this review. **Edit, I've had to use this several times now and the one time it did not work my child was actually sick with a bad cold and I had to add in things like a vaporizer to help soothe her** Apparently just reading about it is not good enough for me, I have to SEE it being done to know what to do. It's only been a week since I watched this so that's why my rating is still low, I'm a skeptic and I have to see more evidence for myself to know that it will work in the long term. I purchased the digital copy on a Friday and began the techniques over the weekend. It was probably the most calm weekend I've had with my daughter since her birth. However, there isn't much I can do for her when I have to set her down to do things like use the bathroom, eat, and prepare a bottle for her. She would still throw a fit, but they were short lived at least. Last night my daughter would not go to sleep, she hadn't slept the whole day and it looked like it was going to extend into the night, normally she's GREAT at going to sleep at night. No fever, no congestion, full belly, dry diaper, I burped her at least 7 times to make sure, I rocked, I sang, I made sure the room was just right, I did all the things I used to do to calm her down to go to sleep and she. was. NOT. having. it. As a last resort I used every technique shown in the video, I swaddled her, put her on her side, created the jiggling movement thing, and I had my white noise app playing the entire time. She was out in literally 30 seconds. 13 hours without so much as a nap and just 1/2 a minute with these techniques and she went out like a light and stayed asleep the rest of the night without so much as stirring. I was floored. *To clarify, I work while her grandmother watches her during the day. I drop her off early in the morning and she usually naps on and off during the day. She woke up from her morning nap and never went back to sleep. It wasn't me just letting her stay up all day not wanting to try the techniques* But I'm a HUGE skeptic, so if I have anymore events like last night in which I have to use these techniques to calm her again, I may alter my rating depending on the outcome.

For new parents, its great to have a system to calm down your baby. Recommend the DVD instead of the book. My husband wouldnt read a lot of books. Handed him the Dvd and he got all the info in 30 min. Used the speciall features for the womb sounds to help calm the baby. Played this when my baby was trying to sleep so that she could sleep in a noisy place.

I can't praise this guy high enough - he saved our live! I bought this DVD before our daughter was born and forgot about it. At about 4 weeks into the parenthood when both my husband and I were beginning to clime the walls and could be mistaken for zombies, in a desperate to find a way of calming the baby I was going through online forums and came across this. One of advisors were recommending to check it out and we did. It was a miracle - his techniques definitely work and Dr. Harvey Karp got himself two more fans! I also bought the book which repeats all that's in the DVD. I strongly recommend getting the DVD because he shows step-by-step the techniques, which btw are very easy and also explains the whole process and THAT makes a big difference! Absolutely love it!!!

My husband and I took a prenatal class and part of this video was featured, showing swaddling techniques and the "5 S's" to calm babies. I decided to get the whole video and I found it very useful to reinforce these concepts to calm our newborn. There does tend to be some repetition, but this helped to keep the main ideas in your memory. We have used the swaddling, shushing, swinging/ jiggling, etc to help soothe our baby, and he has been a pretty happy so far! It has given us some good tools to use when the baby starts to cry and we have already fed and changed him. I would recommend this video for all first time parents. I also got the book, and it goes into some other details about the reasoning behind the use of these techniques. I like to know this kind of information, but if you just want to quickly get the techniques, the video is perfect. It helps to see what they are talking about, particularly with the swaddling and the jiggling, which are hard to describe just in writing or even with diagrams.

La nueva forma de calmar bebés Funciona a la perfección en bebés de menos de tres meses. A mí me ha salvado la vida.

ich finde die erkenntnisse von harvey karp total spannend und berreichernd. ob es wirklich immer so gut klappt, wie im video dargestellt muss man natürlich selbst überprüfen. und auch da wird gelten: "übung macht den meister". dr.karp ist bestimmt ein meister :-)