Product Details

• Actors: Oprah Winfrey
• Format: NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: May 8, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004TJOZ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,200 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Oprah Winfrey narrates this excellent video for new parents, emphasizing a baby's first three months. Using age-old common sense and modern findings, the 30-minute tape introduces parents to elementary tasks: how to provide a loving environment, take care of yourself, and respond to your baby's needs. Anyone who has read the bestselling baby books will have come across this advice in many forms, but this visual guide illustrates the lessons in compelling ways. Oprah herself--not a mom, but certainly an advocate--speaks of how responsive a newborn is and the importance of interaction. Most of the tape shows parents and babies in their homes going through their routines--diapering, feeding, bedtime. Clips of parents' experiences are mixed with advice from the Yale Child Study Center's Dr. Kyle Pruett. A new Raffi music video, "Blessed Be," closes the program. A helpful booklet of books and Web links is also provided; for more information, visit Begin with Love on Moms Online. --Doug Thomas

Product Description

"Begin With Love," a 30 minute video with Oprah Winfrey, focuses on your relationship with your infant in the first three months of life. Based on the latest research in early childhood development, the video highlights five guidelines that will help all new parents create a responsive and enriching environment for their young baby - the key to helping her learn about her new world. Featuring Dr. Kyle Pruett, a wonderful group of new parents, and the world debut of Raffi's song "Blessed Be," "Begin with Love" will be delivered to more than 3.6 million new parents this year through The BabyTalk new parents kit distributed by FirstMoments, inc.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good advice for parents, May 14, 2000

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Joy Oliver (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Begin With Love [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video shows the real day-to-day responsibilities of taking care of a newborn. The title, "Begin With Love", promotes beginning and ending with loving your baby. The parents are real, showing their real feelings and nervous anticipation of in-the-moment challenges. I think all newborn parents can easily relate with these parents. It would have been nice to see added clips of parents who had been through the ordeal offering their real-life solutions. Although I think 30 minutes is too short to give all the solutions to infant care-taking, it definitely offers great advice to new parents. The narration is great at explaining what the nervous parents can't articulate. The advice of the doctors threaded in-between the scenes of the nurture-challenged parents adds excellent solutions on caring for newborns. And the adorable faces of these babies tugged at my heart in watching them endure their first weeks adapting to this world. A great visual insight to what our lives are all about!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a great idea!, May 14, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Begin With Love [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I watched the Oprah show where she talked about this video and it's really so amazing. Too many parents, especially young ones, may not realize just how important those first months of life are--you can really shape your baby's future, for better or worse. I'm going to give this video as a gift to all my friends who are expecting. Keep up the good work, Oprah!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heart Strings Pulled!!, July 27, 2001

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Jack (Redwood City, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Begin With Love [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Be it giving birth, cuddling, powdering your baby or even the not as lovely task of changing poo-poo'd diapers, Oprah has it all down, all her bases covered and all of her t's crossed and i's dotted. Are you sensing my awe and ecstatic glee of all things Oprah here, people? You should be! Whatever she touches is instant gold and this tape is no different! If this is sold out don't wait -- go and get it from your closest video retailer. If someone in front of you in line has the last copy gouge out their eyes with your thumbs and take theirs -- they won't need it anylonger and you will be happy that you did!