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Summary: Incredible
Review: This is an incredible book that lays the foundation for your child's future success. Helping them learn to eat and sleep in a pattern - and on their own! - is fabulous for all other areas of your child's life. And it gives the parents time for themselves as well as the overall family. Truely incredible!
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Summary: New mommies READ this!
Review: I read all the reviews BEFORE I bought this book. I purchased SEVERAL other books, being my 1st child I hadn't a clue. This book is very contriversal, BUT, I do believe that it works. Children are born with a blank tape, and your job as a parent is to fill that tape with the right things to do, and healthy habits, and healthy routines. This book isnt for everybody, but you take some of the items in this book, and you use what works best for your baby. The difference between this book and others, is with others, there are lots of ideas, but this book gives you methods. Use what you want. I just now had my 4th adorable little bundle of joy, he is a babywise baby. My 1st child was sleeping THROUGH the night at 9 weeks, 2nd at 7 weeks. I thought I had it all down, so with my 3rd I didnt stick to a routine, and basically was on her time. She is 3 years old, and STILL dosent sleep through the night, and still wants to eat when everyone is done, or not eat at all. She is my beautiful challenge! This book works, it is a TON of hard work from a Parents standpoint, but the rewards are phenomenal. It dosent happen overnight, and there will be days when it just dosent work, but the next day is a new day. For all you 1st time mothers, this book will save your SANITY!! I can tell you that there is a difference, and times when I need to leave my children with Grandmas or Aunties, the routine comes in handy. My kids are good kids, but from a mothers standpoint, I NEVER could have gotten "it" without Babywise!My sisters are having their 1st children and they ask me how I balance a Full time Managers job (now that my youngest is 8 months and with grandma), raise 4 children. I say its simple....I Babywise. Dont get me wrong when you get this book, you will read it and think......What? Then you will be reading it at all hours of the night, just relax, keep it handy - in your purse, or car, or on the nightstand- LOL. It will be well worth it. It dosent work for everybody, and each parent has their own point of view. If you are looking for something that will give you, your child and the life around you some structure and sanity for the 1st 6 months.......Try it!
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Summary: My kids know when to sleep because I trained them early!
Review: THANKS TO THIS BOOK! Our kids are well adjusted, RESTED, happy little individuals, because their Mommy and Daddy followed the guidelines in this book to YES, TRAIN them to sleep when it's time to sleep, and eat when it's time to eat! No torture, no weight loss,...just where do some people get that from anyway?? If you're a parent who's lacking common sense, then you really shouldn't be having children in the first place! But, back to the point: Our first son was sleeping through the night at 7 weeks old, our second son at 6 weeks, and our daughter at 9 weeks. Yes, I would do it all again the same way! I suggest this book to other expecting parents all the time, and even give it as a baby shower gift, all wrapped up in a beautiful blankie. It is an ENORMOUS time saver, sanity saver, family saver to train children to sleep through the night early on! If our kids are ever up past 9 pm, (they are now 9, 6, and 3) they begin to complain that they're tired and want to go home, so they can sleep!! It's wonderful! They do better in school (it's documented fact, that children who are rested, do better accademically), they have fewer health problems...need I go on? I can't really give this book or it's author enough praise. IT'S PERFECT FOR THE PARENT THAT KNOWS A CHILD NEEDS TO BE TRAINED TO FIT INTO THE FAMILY'S ROUTINE, NOT FOR PARENTS WHO BELIEVE THE CHILD SHOULD TELL THEM WHERE THEY FIT INTO THE FAMILY ROUTINE. When you break it down, it's really that simple. The best parenting guide I have ever read/used/reused and recommended!
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Summary: please be careful
Review: Almost all of the positive reviews acknowledge that this system, if followed by someone with no common sense, is dangerous! It is fine to put your baby on a schedule so long as it doesn't leave him going hungry - but you don't need a book to tell you that. There is a lot of additional, frightening, medically unsound, wrong and abusive advice in this book. Please check out ezzo.info before buying. And if you do buy, throw it out after you are done with it so it doesn't wind up with some idiot, who - true story - dehydrates their baby - or with someone like the woman who let her son cry until blood came out and he lost his voice (that posting is straight from a babywise system advice message board that used to be run by Ezzo's religious group).
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Summary: Survival Plan for Parents and Baby
Review: I have read the negative things people have to say about this book and its approach- I just have to say that provided excellent guidance and advise for our first child. With the basic outline of this plan and your own good sense and instincts this book can provide the structure and sanity that is so elusive in those first few months. My husband and I had absolutely zero experience with babies and now we have a chubby, smiley, well-adjusted 5 month old. I give this book much of the credit for getting us where we are. I would highly recommend it to any of my girlfriends!
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Summary: I got it from Eagle Books
Review: I got this book from Eagle Books. It came fast and looks brand new. I just wanted to share with others that Eagle Books is a great company to buy from.
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Summary: Ezzo's "medical" advices are unfounded!
Review: Babywise leads to some dangerous parenting practices. For breastfeeding mother, Ezzo's feeding schedule can lead to low milk production due to lack of breast stimulations in the early months. "Ezzo babies" have been known to suffer from failure to thrive. The Babywise method are against American Academy of Pediatrics' reccomendations. The authors offer advice based on their opinions and narrow minded card-board examples. The two paint a picture that attachement parenting (AP) are for people who don't have a good marriages and spoil their child bcause they don't know how to handle things. Ezzo and Bucknam commented that AP parents can't even use a babysitter to go on a date because their children are not as independent. They suggest that holding a baby or using a baby carrier "supresses" a child's cry an ths child is comforted by the proximity of the parents not develope a relationship with mom and dad. I've read that section of the book a few times and still don't understand how they can say that. The authors also suggest that at one month of age that the parents "might have at least one playtime a day when the baby has your full attention for fifteen minutes or so." (p. 130) It might be just me, but 15 minutes doesn't sound like a lot. Babies aren't brought into this world to be left in cribs and playpens. Many of his medical research are opinions and are not bases on studies. Please visit [website] for more infomation.
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Summary: How to be a really bad parent
Review: This is a great book if you want to get in the correct mindset for abusing your child. It teaches you to stop seeing your baby as a helpless lovable creature. Instead, after reading this book, you'll see your baby (and all babies) as evil and manipulative. You'll no longer see your child as someone that needs to be held, loved, and rocked to sleep. You'll see your baby as something that needs to be conquered and controlled. I know some people are saying right now. "I don't care what you say! This book worked for us!" Yes, for many people this book does work...on the surface. You just mind create a baby who has the unnatural ability to sleep through the night at 6 weeks old. You might have a baby that never needs to be held or God forbid, rocked to sleep! You might have a baby that eats on a perfect every four hour schedule. You might have a fourteen month old who sits perfectly still in her highchair and never plays with her food. Congratulations you've created a Stepford Baby. But let's dig below the surface. There things are probably not great. Since you refused to respond to your child's cries at night, she's learned she can't trust you. This distrust might not be evident now, but wait until she's a teenager. What kinds of things will she do behind your back? And yes, she IS going to do them BEHIND your back. Any child who gets her hand slapped for sticking her fingers in the mashed potatos is not going to confess to her parents that she watched a porno movie at her friend's house. And you were so lucky to never have to rock your baby to sleep? Instead he just lay in the crib next to his blankie and teddy bear and magically fell asleep. Well, as a teenager he'll probably be less interested in being touched by humans...He'll care less about hugs and more about material things. As a baby, his needs were answered with toys and inanimate objects. And that's how he'll try to fulfill his needs as a teenager. And as for the baby who eats every four hours...If you're breastfeeding, were you able to nurse at least a year as the American Academy of Pediatrics says you should. Or did your milk dry up before that? Waiting every three to four hours to nurse is a recipe for disaster in breastfeeding...but Mr. Ezzo didn't tell you that. He just let you believe there was something wrong with your milk supply. Now if you want to raise a baby who ends up being a selfish, cold-hearted, distrustful, alienated adult...go ahead. Buy this book. If you want to raise a baby who ends up being a caring, giving, trustful, happy, fulfilled adult...try one of these other authors.... Penelope Leach Benjamin Spock Elizabeth Pantley Ann Douglas William Sears
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Summary: The Reason My Son Sleeps ALL night!
Review: I had followed the BabyWise principals without reading this book, but at 10 months my son still did not sleep all night. He began to wake every 2 hours and I could not take it anymore. Not only was I a walking Zombie, it was not healthy for my son, BABIES NEED THEIR SLEEP!! And so do Mommies! I got the book, read it, it made PERFECT sense and convinced me that babies need to be taught how to sleep and it is one of the best things you can do for yourself and your child, not to mention your marriage! So I recommend this book to all new parents. Logan sleeps from 8pm to 8am, takes 2 naps during the day (1 1/2 to 2 hours each) and he is happier, healthier, and developing wonderfully. AND I am no longer a zombie.
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Summary: Motherhood, not Martyrdom.
Review: If you only plan on one child, you can co-sleep and nurse that child for years, and make your life's mission the rapid and constant response to that child's needs. However, I have no idea how you could plan on caring for that same first child with such consuming devotion if you later have a second child, who also cries, and wants Mommy to tend to their needs, and is also hungry. Maybe your first-born will understand if you push them aside while you tend to your new baby? We have two kids, and counting! Babywise has been a godsend, and has given me tools to help my children be the happy, sweet-natured, loveydoves that they are. More importantly, motherhood has been a blessing, and not the chore I hear too many mothers whine about. I suspect many of the negative reviews are from people who never read the book. There's two general camps in these reviews: Attachment Parents vs. Babywise Parents. While I respect that there's no one method that will work for every family, I think the negative reviews come mostly from women who have their first child, and have comparatively unlimited time, energy, and resources to care for their first. As my first two children came in a matched set (twins!), it wasn't physically possible to rush them to my breast at the first bellow, nor was it possible to schlep them both around the house with me. And sometimes, Mommy needs a potty break, or a shower, or has a delivery at the door, etc. If only I had Alice from the Brady Bunch living with us...but alas, we are a servant-free household. Oh, and by the way, whether you are a Babywiser or an attachment parenter, if you're a loving parent, your children will bond with you. It's what they do. You don't have to oversell yourself to your children. However, you will probably HATE this book if (1) you are raising a child in a "non-traditional" family; (2) you are an atheist or secular humanist; (3) you spend copious amounts of time reading others' reviews, and never actually read the book!
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