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Summary: It worked wonderfully for our family of 3!!!!!
Review: I've used the Baby Wise book with every one of my 3 children... I have found that the advice and tips in this book has helped us tremendously. As I tell everyone, you can't expect to agree with all aspects of this book. You have to take the advice that works for you and go with it... I think baby's do need a sense of routine and the sample schedules in this book are very helpful in achieving this goal. After following the advice in the book all of our kids slept threw the night right around 8-12wks of age... I like that the book has a Christian viewpoint as well. I would and have recommened this book to everyone! This book was an absolute lifesaver for me because I truly didn't have any idea about how to approach getting on a schedule with my first baby and it WORKS!!! My children love the routine of their days and they are such a pleasure to be around(most of the time)! Of course, this book doesn't solve the sibling rivalry issue, but it's not a cure all book unfortunately!! ha!
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Summary: Great methods!
Review: Let's face it. Whatever method you choose to use for your child, adapt it to his/her needs. This method is easy to follow and if you use common sense to mold it to your needs will work for you. I loved this book and would recommend it highly to anyone with a new born.
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Summary: It work well - apply advice smartly
Review: The book's advice has worked. My seven-month old is a cheerful baby that sleeps through the night. I read the bad reviews and I offer the following: "It's a one/two idea book": that's right - because it is only trying offer advice on a couple of problems. How to make your child sleep through the night and how to make her happy and cheerful. "works best for formula children": some truth to this. We did both and formula is just plain simpler in every case. Due to circumstances, we were entirely on bottles by month four. I think that the happy middle ground here is pumping and bottling the mother's milk. Otherwise I can see how the demands may outstrip your capacity. "abusive" "unsafe" etc.: this is the criticism of the auto-pilot parent who don't want think for themselves and apply sound advice as is appropriate. My wife is a medical professional who spent ten years in a neonate ICU and children's hospital emergency ward (please apply the word abuse when appropriate) and she had similar concerns about dehydration and development. If you are incapable of discerning when a child is dehydrated as opposed to not wanting to follow a schedule then DON"T FOLLOW THIS. Please. However, don't be under the impression that you need a medical background to follow this advice. It comes down to this: is your child gaining weight normally? Are her thighs chunky? Does the skin on the back of the hand snap back when pinched (dehydration sign if it doesn't)? Are you prepared to adjust your schedule depending on circumstance? Don't be a schedule-nazi, be a parent that is informed and knows what they are doing. And finally, despite the 100% positive results of my child (based on physical development, emotional development and sleep patterns), this may simply not work on your child. Don't keep trying if you are not getting positive results. There is nothing wrong with your child, it is just that everybody is different.
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Summary: Book is not as bad as everyone seems to think
Review: I am a loving,Christian mother of two little girls and my friend gave me a copy of this book when I had second daughter. My oldest daughter had been raised "on demand" and it was a horrible experience for us. By the time she was 4, I was still trying to get her to go to sleep at night without me in the room or without holding her hand for two hours until she fell asleep. When our second daughter was born, she had her days and nights mixed up. She would get up at 3 a.m. and want to stay awake until 10 or 11 in the morning. She would wake up the whole house with her. It was horrible! When I first read some of this book, I thought it sounded horrible and abusive, too. But out of desperation and lack of sleep I decided to LOOSELY follow the advice. The first night was the worst and I sat outside the door and cried with her but she slept better then she did since we had brought her home. By the third night she was falling right to sleep and only waking when she was hungry and going right back to sleep. I do not think this book is abusive. It is merely an idea or a plan to help parents who have babies who do not sleep well. My youngest is now 3 and she is still the better sleeper of my girls!
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Summary: A Very Dangerous Book
Review: Please, for you child's sake, research Gary Ezzo before purchasing this book and putting his methods into practice in your home (babycenter.com is a good place to start). The World Health Organization and American Academy of Pediatrics have both denounced the methods of scheduling babies in the book as they can lead to failure to thrive among other problems. Just because a method for scheduled feedings, "sleep training", etc. "WORKS" does not mean it is best for your baby's physical and emotional health. When your baby cries he/she needs you...period.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book isn't just about feeding. It's about training a child from the beginning. Even young babies can learn how to manipulate. They're not hungry everytime they cry. Sometimes they are sleepy. Sometimes they just need to talk. Babywise is about having order in your life and in your babies life. It helps both you and baby! I always get comments about how good and how content my children are and they both slept through the night by the time they were 8 weeks old.
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Summary: make sense guide to figure out your newborn!
Review: This book is just a GUIDE! But the principles within that I couldn't read fast enough after I had my first baby at the age of 37, seemed to make sense. I was desperate to get some sleep, understand my baby's cries and get some semblance of a life/schedule back and fit my precious little daughter into my and my husband's lives. It was hard to let my child cry at times in the beginning but when I knew that she was fed/changed/dry/healthy etc. I knew I could do nothing else further. I put this book to the test and VOILA, my 3-1/2 week old daughter was finally sleeping thru the night (10pm until around 5am) and I was starting to understand her needs and (here's the key word) ANTICIPATE her needs so that she never needed to be upset, hungry, etc. This book I recommend to all my friends/family/clients with first babies. I swear by it. My now 14 month old daughter is a a thriving, healthy, BabyWise child who sleeps 10-12 hrs. at night and takes 2 good naps a day and who has learned and accepted age-appropriate do's and don'ts... all from the BabyWise Books (we also have read BabyWise II for 5-15 month olds) -- I can bank on her schedule, which allows me to get lots of other stuff done around the house or for my job, which I do at home. I plan on following these principles with any other child we may have. I was shocked to see the negative reviews on this book, which I would give the highest praise.
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Summary: Nonsense - book for those not really ready to parent!
Review: The premise of this book is this - married people have the primary obligation to care for each other before succombing to the needs of a child they brought into the world. Ahh, doesn't it sound nice . . . sleeping like before, going wherever you want, whenever you want, vacationing like honeymooners because your "well adjusted child" can stay with anyone and sleep and eat on a perfect schedule - why should having a child change all that? ...! Having a child is hard work, and there is no magic potion or spell! Want to raise a child that feels loved, secure and well-cared for? Does starvation and pattern neglect fit in? The authors ARE NOT DOCTORS but advise just that. I have known several people who have followed the program and rave about all of the sleep they get. We are all doctoral degreed, so I thought I'd read about it. I thought it sounded crazy - and it is. One of these well educated guys at work said that his 5 week old cried for two hours, but that she had to learn that it was time to go to sleep! His wife also confirmed to my wife that their daughter was sometimes hungry, but that didn't feed her because it wasn't yet the scheduled time. Two years later, their daughter is in the 5th percentile in size and my son exceeds the chart (>95%)and is extremely happy and outgoing (they're 1 month apart in age). Every person I have known that followed babywise gets lots of sleep and parties a lot, but all have children in the bottom 25% of growth. This is not an exaggeration. Our pediatrician said that most people in the medical community feel like the book promotes neglect, and that a baby crying is the only form of communication it has. Respond to your child, not some crazy scheme to avoid your new responsibilities of caring for that child. And to the reviewer that wrote she goes to art galleries and the marriage is the certerpoint - GROW UP. If your marriage is so insecure that it needs priority to maintain over a helpless child, you weren't ready to parent and the longevity of your marriage seems in doubt anyway! Your child can sleep on its own because it has no real bonding with any adult. ...just put your child on a three-hour cycle after 2 weeks (feed, play, sleep, in that order so the child doesn't learn to sleep as a response to feeding). If they are tired, but it's not time for their 1 1/2 hour nap, keep them awake. If they have slept past the 1 1/2 hour nap - go wake them up. Nothing makes for good parenting like depriving a newborn of needed sleep and food. They're hungry, but the meal time isn't up on the timer, don't feed them, otherwise you are spoiling them and you'll never be able to go out like college kids on a regular basis and get your 9 hours of sleep a night.
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Summary: Think for yourself!
Review: This book is simple. It is based on a very simple premise - parent directed feeding(PDF). It is written in simple language. And for us, PDF simply worked. Our daughter slept through the night by four months and today at 16 months is a very healthy, energetic dynamo with endless curiosity and a great sense of humor. She is also over the 80th percentile in height and weight. For us, our version of PDF was a great success. Did we follow Mr. Ezzo's advice to the letter? Of course not. We also read Sears and a host of other books. It would be ridiculous and foolish to completely adopt any "experts" advice -whether from Sears or Ezzo. Take the ideas and adopt them to what works best for you and your family. Think for yourself. Ezzo's book takes very little time to read and it contains some very useful ideas that, when applied thoughtfully, are well worth the investment. We found these ideas to be extremely useful. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: a 1-idea book
Review: I'll save you the money of the book by telling you its basic premise; it's really a one-(two?-)idea book. The authors believe that the main trick to getting your baby to sleep well at night is to put them on a feeding schedule. While I wholeheartedly endorse that schedule= predictability= sanity for mother, my baby has always been on a schedule and, at 10 months, still doesn't sleep through the night. The secondary idea is that you should not feed/nurse your child to sleep. Rather, feed your child, engage in an activity with your child, and then put them to sleep while they are still awake. I also did this. Maybe my child is an anomaly.
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