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Summary: Don't Listen to the Negative Reviews - BUY THIS BOOK!
Review: I continue to see the negative reviews about this book and feel that I must respond. Good parents are going to be good parents regardless of parenting method, and how can you argue that well-rested parents somehow are worse parents than the parents that don't allow themselves a good night's sleep for months? These people either don't understand this book, or have failed miserably at parenting and feel like they must substitute the closeness of too-frequent breastfeeding for good all-around parenting. Our twin daughters are 2 years old, extremely well adjusted and developing way ahead of their ages. They breast fed exclusively for 12 months. They slept through the night at 8 weeks. By 4 months they were sleeping 11-12 hours every night. When we put them to bed at night or for their naps (still, 2 years later), you can stand at the side of the crib and they are trying to dive out of your arms to get into bed. How can you imply that this is bad? They love to go to sleep! They still get all the food they need, they still get held, cuddled and rocked, they still get lots and lots of parental attention! Also, what's wrong with getting babies accustomed to a schedule and them feeding them regularly so they are eating before they are hungry and start to cry? For logical people, doesn't this make sense? Feeding kids before they are starving??? Makes sense to me. Maybe I shouldn't think logically, if my pediatrician or my minister thinks it's wrong....(read sarcasm). This book is a life saver, especially with multiples. Do yourself a favor, and don't read any other reviews, don't discuss this with your pediatrician unless you love to debate, and don't discuss this with your mother or grandmother who are holding onto the old school methods of "feed on demand"....JUST BUY THIS BOOK...AND FOLLOW IT!
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Summary: Should be burned.
Review: I bought a number of parenting books before our first child came home from the hospital after being born 10 weeks early. I tried to follow the suggestions in the book, but they directly conflicted the advice that my pediatrician was giving me.
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Summary: The Worst
Review: Gary Ezzo's church no longer supports his babycare program. Ezzo has no professional background in pediatrics, child psychology, or any other related topic. The American Academy of Pediatrics is highly critical of Babywise and the ideas contained therein. The book is full of blatantly incorrect information. (For example, claiming that women who breastfeed on demand have lesss milk than women who breastfeed on schedules. Or that demand feeding causes physiological imbalances in the baby.) If nature had meant for our babies to be sleeping 12 hours at night by 3 months, nature would have made babies that way. In fact, nature intends for infants to eat at night. Nature intends for babies to nurse more than once every 3 1/2 hours during the day.
Why would anyone want to buy and use a book that is not only panned by every knowlegable source, but which forces babies to go against their biological programming? I sure wouldn't.
In the 1950's and 60's women 'failed' at breastfeeding in droves, because they thought they were supposed to put baby on a 4 hour schedule and thought baby should be sleeping the night by 6 weeks. (So they thought they didn't have enough milk, and began supplementing early, or just weaned to a bottle.) Ezzo's ideas are just a throwback to this era. They offer nothing new and nothing useful. Please do NOT abuse your baby by buying or using this program.
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Summary: BEWARE!
Review: Ask your doctor or your minister if they recommend this book and they will say NO! No one will recommend this book except for selfish, heartless parents!
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Summary: What's all the fuss about
Review: People, people, people. It seems to me that there is a failure to communicate. Babywise promotes parent directed feeding. All the criticisms that I've read are for people who are hyperscheduling the child. There is a BIG difference. My wife and I have used Babywise on our baby boy and he is a very happy baby. He's well within the norms of weight and height growth and everybody always comments about how well adjusted our child is. We're planning to use this system for number 2. I've met people who curse this system and I watch as their child beats there parents, still wake up in the middle of the night at ages 2-4, and are smaller than my child. You tell me whose doing the abuse???
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Summary: Badly organized but PHENOMENAL information
Review: Don't read this book while you're tired or you'll probably mess up the "system" as we did, causing our newborn some unneccessary stress (poor kid!) while we figured out what the book was really saying. It's really badly organized, so things that seem like hard and fast rules in the beginning are contradicted towards the middle, and restated at the end. HOWEVER with a bit of your own good judgement it is fantastic advice. Our son was sleeping through the night (I'm talking 8-9 hours!!) at 2 months!! By three months it was CONSISTENT. And without a single whimper at bedtime (unless he spat up on himself, or some other baby madness) Middle of night feedings in the beginning, same thing. After eating, the kid went right back down for more snoozing. And during the day, a cheerful, chipper little dude. Maybe we just got a perfect kid, but my guess is it's the book. We started at birth, having had friends recommend it, and we swear by it.
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Summary: This is my parenting bible
Review: This book is wonderful. My baby slept through the night at 6 weeks (7 hours a night), and ever since he was 3 months old he has slept 12 hours a night! He also takes two 2 hour naps a day. He is a joy to be around! Schedules are extremely important, and Gary Ezzo has a wonderful program. My one-year old has been in the 90th percentile for height and weight since he was born, and is very healthy. My husband is a physician and recommends the book to new parents because he has seen the effects of the program.
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Summary: a widely misunderstood book
Review: My husband and I used the Babywise information to train our newborn son to sleep for 10 hours a night. He is still breastfeeding at age 2, and has been getting full nights of sleep since 4 weeks old. He is well-rested and alert, very smart, and also very secure. We have not experienced any of the problems suggested by the "anti-Ezzo" camp. This book has good information for parents of most children (special needs such as preemies or ill-newborns may require a different method of care), and especially for mothers who are returning to work postpartum, which I did, and was able to continue breastfeeding my son exclusively until he was 7 months and started eating solid foods. As with any parenting book, you need to read it and then decide what will work best for you. We didn't use all the information in Babywise, but what we did use worked really well.
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Summary: This book helped me regain my sanity!
Review: This is an excellent resource for getting your infant on an eating and sleeping schedule that will help your family achieve more sleep. My neighbor who has twins told me this book was what kept her sane when her two little ones were infants, so I decided to give it a try. My daughter was sleeping through the night (8 hours) at six weeks!
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Summary: great book
Review: This book is a great parenting book. My husband and I are both pediatricians and in using this book, our breastfed child slept through the night at 5 weeks! She continues to be at the 75th percentile for height and weight, and is developing wonderfully. I have had no problems with breastmilk production. Of course, there are those parents who insist on demand feeds and have deemed this book to be child abuse. It is no such thing, as members of the American Academy of Pediatrics, we both highly recommend it.
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