I really liked his book, “Touch Points.” I referred to it often when my kids were young. This principle was helpful: “Before a child makes a new developmental leap, he falls apart. He is going back to gather his strength to take the next leap.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/obituaries/dr-t-berry-brazelton-dies.html
I really liked his advice. He seemed very kind and grounded.
I saw him speak once, more than 25 years ago. It was wonderful. He showed short videos to illustrate his points. I can still see him standing in the front of that auditorium.
I watched so many episodes of his show when I had my first daughter 27 years ago.
He seemed like such a sweet man
He seemed to apply good-natured common sense that sadly isn’t as common as we’d like!
I found his advice helpful as well, especially when he reminded us that our kids would have different personalities, some quiet, some active, and we should endeavor to understand them.
I sure learned a thing or two from his books.
I loved watching his TV show as a new mother 19+ years ago. He help me to be calm and to appreciated that my new little person aware of everything.
Wow, he died just short of his 100th birthday. I adored him ~ I watched “What Every Baby Knows” and it was a big influencer of how I raised my children. It helped me to be patient with my children and with myself. What a treasure.
Wow. I worked on his “team”. At my hospital in Boston, we would see families, with pediatrician, psychologist, etc for a few hours, and come up,with recommendations. When I did my interviews, knowing he could be behind the glass, always made me do my best.
OMG. I was actually a “Brazelton baby” the two years we lived in outside Boston while the Marine Corps sent my Dad to HBS. He had a very cool rocking horse in the waiting room. Pretty sure I was too little to be allowed on without Mom holding me in the saddle. I still have his notes criticizing the care I received at the Naval Hospital at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. In and out of the hospital my first three years, but, as he noted, “he survived.” And still going, Doc. Many thanks.
I did not know who is was sad to say, My kids were raised on a dog eared copy of Dr. Spock that was my mother’s! But living to 99 is a feat indeed. I also was working including the day I had each of the boys so not much TV for me for a decade!
Mom passed away this January at 96 – just a few months shy of 97. Brazelton might have been “just” a neighborhood doctor in '55 and only a few years older than her, but I expect he already had enough of a reputation that Mom sought him out. I don’t remember a fancy office, however – just the rocking horse in the corner. Don’t think we had a TV until '64.
Corrected quote for #10, since the time for editing that one has lapsed: “He made it anyway.”
He was my go to guy with my oldest dd. He guided me through some difficult stages with her. I liked his down to earth approach.
Oh no. 
He did live a good long life but I am SO sad to hear this. He was a “mentor” of sorts to me from afar - I did get the chance to hear him speak and meet him in person - a highlight of my life. He had such a genuine, gentle way of speaking. He held a baby in his hands like it was a piece of gold.
I loved watching him on his tv show. He was so calm and reassuring.
@bookworm was that at Boston Medical Center???
Sad to hear that. Dr. Brazelton and Penelope Leach were my go-tos for child rearing reassurance.
I was on the team at Beth Israel Hospital and Children’s Hospital. My job was to do some psychological testing, a social worker met the parents, a pediatrician, etc. were on each team. Maybe 7 people. Everyone had a task and a goal.
RIP Dr. T. Berry Brazelton - I loved reading his books (they remain on my shelf today) and watching his show “What Every Baby Knows" when my own “baby” was little. I learned so much from him. I adored his mannerism and he had the most soothing voice. Between him and Fred Rogers I know I was a better parent.