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Title: Half-baked
Review: The book has some great tips in it. Unfortunately, the author has decide it to wrap his advice in the rather unconvincing idea that evolution has stupidly decided to bring babies into the world before the they are ready to handle it. Swaddling babies is not a new idea and has been successfully practiced in baby care for centuries without the "fourth trimester" theory.The author also makes frequent general assertions that "primitive cultures" in Africa and Asia possess inherent cultural wisdom that permits them to always treat their babies right. This idea, although complimentary of those "primitive cultures" (as he calls them, though with the quotation marks), is inherently racist, and Karp never back up such assertions with actual data or by quoting studies.I wish Dr. Karp would just stick to providing his useful advice and keep his half-baked theories about the fourth trimester and the inherent wisdom of "primitive cultures" to himself.
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