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Title: Babywise: How 100,000 New Parents Trained Their Babies to Sleep Through the Night the Natural Way by Gary Ezzo ISBN: 0-88070-775-5 Publisher: Multnomah Pub Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (200 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book
Comment: I don't quite understand the criticism for this book. When I read the book at no time did the author tell you to be strict & impose a stringent schedule on your baby. It was always stated that you try to adhere to a schedule but obviously you use common sense & feed your baby when he/she is hungry. In fact, the author mentions several times that you shouldn't let your baby sleep more than 3 hrs during the day & should wake him/her to eat if he does. I breastfed both of my babies & used Babywise's method to a certain degree with great success. Neither of my babies "failed to thrive". In fact, they are actually on the higher weight percentiles. The idea is simple enough. Try to feed your baby frequently enough through the day that he learns to distinguish day from night time. At night feedings, keep things low-key & return baby to bed promptly after a feeding. I would recommend this book to any mom/dad! My first son was sleeping through the night for 8 hrs by the time he was 9 weeks & son number two was by 13 weeks.
Rating: 5
Summary: mom of 4
Comment: Great book with some good ideas and common sense! Use your heads!! The whole book tells you to use your head and not ONLY follow a clock. It does suggest putting your baby on a schedule, for eveyone's sake.
Our doctor said we could let the baby sleep as long as he wanted through the night once he had gained his birthweight back (~ 2 weeks), but feed him every 2-3 hrs during the day. He still was only sleeping 4 hours at a time at 10 weeks. I was exhausted, and that simply isn't healthy for any mom, esp with other children.
BEFORE a basic schedule: I never knew why he was crying (Is he hungry? Did he not nurse long enough 30 minutes ago? Got gas from eating? Tired? Lonely? Cold? Is he understimulated? Overstimulated? Should I try to feed him again?). Seemed like he had constant stomach pain from gas. He and I were up for hours at night, and exhausted during the day. I had so much milk I had to pump constantly, which was very uncomfortable and time-consuming. I had no idea why he seemed so grumpy. I had to guess at his every change of mood.
AFTER putting him on a 3 hour schedule of EAT, PLAY, SLEEP: No more stomach pain! Being awake after eating must have helped him. He slept, we woke him up to eat, he ate well, he played for awhile with us, he went to his crib and played alone for a few minutes, and fell asleep again happily (without being held, without being in our bed, without asking hosts or guests to excuse me while I rocked him for an hour, or nursed him to sleep). He ate every 3 hours, and he gained so much weight he was in the 100%, and simply gigantic. My milk was much more normal, and I could actually go out without suddenly wetting my shirt! I knew more or less when he would be awake, when I could schedule housework, play with my other kids, prepare dinner, when I would play with the baby, and when I could run to the store and expect to leave him sleeping with a babysitter for 30 minutes. I eventually nursed him on a 4 hour schedule (last feeding ~9 pm) for almost the whole first year.
When he got an ear infection, I KNEW IT, because he was off schedule, crying at strange times, and I was able to recognize his unusual behavior. Without a "normal" routine, how can you identify unusual events?
If you have a life with other responsibilities (perhaps a marriage, job, children, friends, home), this is definitely worth reading. Especially if you want to have more than one child, because life only gets more complicated with each new one! A daily plan makes everyone more secure. My youngest is 2 now and perfectly happy.
However, if you plan on reacting to your child's every whim and whimper for the next 20 years, perhaps you don't need this book!
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't buy this book
Comment: A friend recommended this book so I bought it despite some bad reviews. I read it frantically when my baby was about a month old. I followed it to the T for 3 days. I almost had a nervous breakdown while following this book. I felt like it stole from me 3 days of being a parent. My instincts told me this book was bad, bad, bad. I read a lot and family and friends kind of make fun of me. I think they think I take everything to heart. Well, I followed my heart on this one and abandoned this book. It should be used as kenneling for a fire. Then I bought Baby 411 which I highly recommend and ironically enough, they graded Babywise with a letter F. In fact, the Academy of Pediatrics had put out a media alert on this book about it not being good for infant's health. hummmmm. I was never holding my little baby and watching the clock like a hawk. Bah-humbug. I bought Solving you baby's sleep problems by Ferber and it changed our lives dramatically for the better (but can't be implemented until about 5-6 months).
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