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Summary: PARENTS-you can SUE if you followed this book&child is sick!
Review: Many people are now suing because they followed this quack and now their children have major health or emotional problems. The bigger bookstores still carry it and they are next to be sued! Don't follow this guys terrible advice! Please listen to your lactation consultant (breastfeeding experts) and MD's/NP's because they REALLY know, this guy is nuts! He really is cultish, as someone else described him. Make sure you get yours when your child develops health and/or emotional problems! Good luck!
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Summary: Parents who follow this book are considered neglectful!
Review: People who follow this baby-harmful Ezzo could end up with babies who are depressed, unbonded with family, sickly or even dead (yes, it has happened).
GET A PET if you need control of a child, better yet, do not have a child until you can meet their needs completely.
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Summary: This book promotes NEGLECT and is being banned from stores!
Review: TO THE GOOD PARENTS-
The Academy of Pediatrics specifically lists THIS BOOK and every book by Ezzo due to it's harmful effects to kids! There is documented research that babies who are left alone to "cry it out" and not fed as God intended (why in the heck do they cry when they are hungry?) are DEPRESSED and have lots of issues with bonding. WHAT KIND OF PARENT would do this to thier child? COME ON PEOPLE, if you are so bent on getting your child on "your" schedule then why did you have a baby in the first place? This guy does NOT teach what God tells us in the bible, only what HE thinks personally. Also, he does NOT teach what medicine tells us about biology of the human body, specifically what babies NEED, just what is desired by the parents (again, get a dog if you want such control). There is talk now of parents having their children taken away from them from NEGLECT! One baby DIED from his mother following the rigid, harmful feeding pattern!!! The people who follow this are described as CULTISH, they usually pass the book from family member to friend to family member and talk with great passion how their children are "sleeping throught the night" etc. CHILDREN ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT AT SUCH YOUNG AGES, in fact, there is growing research that SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT CAN LEAD TO SIDS! Babies who are more wakeful wil wake up if they stop breathing! Furthermore, any good mother will be BREASTFEEDING and not giving that nasty, harmful, man made...FORMULA and this book is terrible to a good breastfeeding mothers milk supply. WOW, I can't believe there are so many stupid parents out there who would follow someones terribly child-unfriendly advice just because he wrote a book and claims it is "Gods way"! ALSO, there are numerous churches around the US who are stating that Ezzo is NOT following the bible and his teachings are highly suspect. THINK WITH YOUR HEAD PEOPLE, love your babies don't try to CONTROL them like a dog on a leash. You have only ONE chance to make it right when they are little, don't screw it up and cause major bonding issues, depression and possibly major health problems for your desire to control your child. If God wanted a child to only eat every few hours and sleep through the night he would have MADE THEM THAT WAY! There is a REASON BABIES CRY, and it is not to annoy you!...
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Summary: A Disturbing Book
Review: While the information in this book may sound appealing to nonparents or new parents, it is bad news. It attempts to remove any and all emotion from the parenting process-- how can doing so possibly allow the child to later on develop relationships with other humans? It values having a well 'trained' child over an emotionally healthy child, and an orderly life for the parent over a psychologically sound beginning for the infant. When criticizing attachment parenting, this book fails to mention that just as in the Ezzo book, attachment parenting methods change and grow with the child. Picking up a crying two month old does not mean the same parent will give a toddler everything he wants on demand. Parts of this book gave me a sickening feeling.
In addition to the links between following Ezzo's advice and failure-to-thrive in some newborn infants, the advice handed out in this book seems adamantly against establishing a mother-child bond. According to Ezzo, a new baby should be viewed as a new couch or perhaps a new dog-- to be noticed, perhaps enjoyed, and trained to 'fit in' with the rest of the family. The book even suggests that if a two-week old infant refuses to eat at one feed, 'make her wait until the next' one (a few hours later). The rationale is that the infant will learn to eat on a schedule, but a two week old child has no understanding on this level. She will just know she is hungry and no one is responding to her. Newborns do not cry to be manipulative-- they cry because this is the only way they can communicate their needs. Contrary to Ezzo's claims, it seems to me God intended parents to respond to this form of communication, rather than ignore it.
The book also contains many medically incorrect information, such as the claim that tears release stress-producing hormones. Young infants do not yet have tears. Biblical references are also taken out of context. If you are considering following ANY of the advice in this book, please, please balance the information with a William Sears book or your maternal instinct (which says it is NOT okay to let a newborn cry for extended periods of time, among other things). Please be aware of the potential dangers of this book and consider these dangers carefully when deciding how to care for your child.
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Summary: DEFINITELY WORTH THE EFFORT!
Review: I am a first time mom and became interested in this book after taking an Ezzo parenting class. I have many friends whose children still get up two to three times per night who went with the demand feeding system (let the kid decide when).Ezzo explains a system where you make sure the baby gets a full meal first, some playtime and then a full naptime. MY BABY SLEPT 9 HOURS PER NIGHT BY 6 WEEKS AND HAS EVER SINCE. I get plenty of sleep, too, and everyone says what a good baby she is. You have to be willing to let the baby cry a little, but if you feel you need to pick them up or feed early, you do. This is NOT a strict schedule, cry it out method, and it does work. This has been the best thing for us and I recommend it highly!
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Summary: a wonderful book to use as a reference
Review: I was looking over the reviews for this book and I think that some new parents are missing the point of a reference book. I do not think that you can use EVERY single tip in any book and you should be able to pull the ones that work and discard the ones that dont. I used this book as a guide with my first and will use it for the second as well. The author makes some wonderful points that so many parents do not abide by such as making sure that your child is an addition to the family and not the only member of the family. Second, do not rock, nurse or sing the child to sleep so he can learn to comfort himself. My child is not perfect but she did sleep through the night at 8 weeks and was and still is able to put herself to sleep. I recommend that all new parents read the book and give some of the principles a try. If you are one of those mothers who rushes to your baby everytime he cries, feeds on demand every two hours and rocks him to sleep every nap, then this book is not for you.
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Summary: Have been recommending this to every new mother I know.
Review: Only suggestion: read the entire thing before the baby arrives. Then use as reference as you go along.
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Summary: cry baby cry
Review: This is just another version of the "Cry it Out" method. Sure, it's structured, and if you don't mind having a rigid schedule and letting your baby cry himself to sleep, or be forced into becoming self-soother straight out of the womb, be my guest. People seem to love it, but I didn't. Neither did my baby.
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Summary: Be Very Afraid
Review: If you love your baby, PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! Buy "The Baby Book" by William Sears, M.D., and Martha Sears. For a thorough critique of "Babywise" books, go to ccli.org, click "Parenting" and select "Growing Families International: a Theological Critique."
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Summary: Great for getting your tiny one to sleep through the night
Review: My sister gave me this book after I had my first child. She used the method on her daughter with great results. I followed the advice and my baby was sleeping 6 - 8 hours straight by 6 weeks and 11 hours straight at 2 months! My other new-mom friends were quite envious! My daughter still sleeps 11 hours at night with a 2 hour nap now that she is 18 months old. She has never relied on a bottle or breast to fall asleep. And she is not used to snacking all day long. Babywise is a very quick read and the advice is very straightforward. Tracy Hogg gives similar advice in the "Baby Whisperer", however I fould her book to be too chatty. I never made it past the 2nd chapter.
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