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Summary: One of the worst books I have ever read
Review: I took a chance and read this book despite having hated Ezzo's previous books (On Becoming Babywise). I wasted my time and money. Ezzo clearly doesn't understand the first thing about pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding or baby care. He should be banned from writing on such topics. Please don't waste your money or time reading this trash. Even the What To Expect series, which I didn't care for at all, were better and more medically sound than this book. Two huge thumbs down.
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Summary: Ezzo + Women = disaster
Review: I'm sorry there's no zero star option. Isn't it bad enough that babies routinely get sick and are diagnosed as Failure To Thrive because of Ezzo's ridiculous and unfounded infant feeding advice?? Isn't it bad enough that Ezzo has no credentials or degrees in anything whatsoever (except for that ministry degree that included credit for "life experience") including no credentials in medicine of any kind? Isn't it bad enough that pregnant and birthing women already die in alarming numbers in the United States, more than in any other industrialized nation? Do Gary Ezzo and his wife really need to write this book, in light of all that? Give me a break! For more information on this crooked and dangerous author, see http://www.ezzo.info
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Summary: Review Guidelines
Review: It would be nice if the Attatchment Parenting ladies would follow the review guidelines! None of you have read or reviewed the book! Who would want to be a part of such a judgemental parenting group! Authors have separate review mechanisms. Please use the appropriate page. What to include:
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Summary: This is SICK!!!
Review: RUN, run, run as far away from this book as you can. Take anything written by the Ezzo's and have a fire in the backyard.
Although, if you are planning to be abusive parent, then go a head and do what his books say.
Then called the police on yourself for it!
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Summary: Run don't walk from this book
Review: Scary..just scary.
If you'd like a birth book, you would do well to consider "THE BIRTH BOOK" by Dr. Sears. Anyone who writes such counterintuitive, dangerous; and woefully misinformed trash as Ezzo should probably stay away from life-changing, momentous events that affect you and your child for the rest of your natural lives.
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Summary: Give me a break!
Review: The man who brought us "teaching your baby who's boss", starving our infants and forcing them into a schedule is now telling us how to birth? I'd just as soon ask Saddam Hussein for instructions on how to be compassionate.
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Summary: regurgitation
Review: This book gives no information that isn't readily available elsewhere form a more reputable source, except a positive endorsement of Gary Ezzo's disproved infant training theories. Before considering further on what birth and baby care books to purchase, people need to realize that the Ezzo's are ostensibly religious figures, removed from ministry in multiple churches and credited with authoring the secular version of the religious books that have led to Failure to thrive infants, and children with attachment disorder. I really hope no one really wants to start on that path with their infant. The subtitle of this book is mentions birthing "by Design". Physiologically oriented parents need to understand the "Design" is referring to Creation "Science" "intelligent" design, not to anything based on biological fact. The information given here wasn't written by Gary Ezzo but by a consortium of a couple nurses, a few MD's and a couple CNM (certified Nurse-Midwives). It's a medical model book on birth, with no entries in the index for "homebirth" or "doula", so expect no discussion on anything outside of hospitals and birth centers. The sections on labor read pretty much like the soft "What to expect when You're Expecting", a book renowned for it's lack of empowering information. There are a couple pages on positions for pain relief, but not enough to help a woman avoid a medicalized birth or to even understand why drugs in labor are dangerous to her and her baby. One brief chapter on feeding infants includes the tired statement "there are advantages and disadvantages to both bottle feeding and breastfeeding", disregarding the 100+ citations on the risks of formula feeding at the end of the AAPediatrics Statement on the Use of Human Milk. I wonder what disadvantages to breastfeeding there might be other than this absurd statement, paraphrased, "deciding how to feed an infant needs to me a family decision based on whether or not the mother can be well nourished and well rested enough to breastfeed the baby." !!! Well, the last time I looked, it was metabolically more difficult to be pregnant than to breastfeed, and if the mother is so darned worn out from baby care, she most certainly does not have the extra energy one needs to bottle feed! Bottle feeding is expensive, difficult to do safely and a mother has the constant worry of whether or not the pharmaceutical company has made a manufacturing mistake. Certainly a mother would be better rested knowing that her baby is fed the food that God or Nature intended! The final pages of the books contain various "scientific" appearing charts, including a goal sheet for post-partum. By one week post partum, moms are supposed to shower by noon, by two weeks they need to be dressed by noon and by 3 weeks, they need to have their make-up on by noon! Whoa! In the real world of nurturing, the baby really doesn't care what the mom is wearing and probably prefers the un-made-up face anyway. Oooops! In the Baby(un)wise series, DAD is the all important God designated family head and decider of all things. I guess that's why Mom needs to worry about those things. Here's a tip Mom- throw out the schedules, attend to baby, your rest and nursing. Everything else will follow in it's time. After all, Mary (remember, the Mom who gave birth to Jesus?) didn't have a clock, a schedule or make-up to put on. She had a baby who needed her love, her milk and her physical presence. The Ezzos will appear truly Godly when they realize that those are the important things in life. Just don't get caught up in the Ezzo plans before *or* after birth.
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Summary: An early introduction to the Baby(un)wise books
Review: This book gives no information that isn't readily available elsewhere form a more reputable source, except a positive endorsement of Gary Ezzo's disproved infant training theories. Before considering further on what birth and baby care books to purchase, people need to realize that the Ezzo's are ostensibly religious figures, removed from ministry in multiple churches and credited with authoring the secular version of the religious books that have led to Failure to thrive infants, and children with attachment disorder. I really hope no one really wants to start on that path with their infant. The subtitle of this book is mentions birthing "by Design". Physiologically oriented parents need to understand the "Design" is referring to Creation "Science" "intelligent" design, not to anything based on biological fact. The information given here wasn't written by Gary Ezzo but by a consortium of a couple nurses, a few MD's and a couple CNM (certified Nurse-Midwives). It's a medical model book on birth, with no entries in the index for "homebirth" or "doula", so expect no discussion on anything outside of hospitals and birth centers. The sections on labor read pretty much like the soft "What to expect when You're Expecting", a book renowned for it's lack of empowering information. There are a couple pages on positions for pain relief, but not enough to help a woman avoid a medicalized birth or to even understand why drugs in labor are dangerous to her and her baby. One brief chapter on feeding infants includes the tired statement "there are advantages and disadvantages to both bottle feeding and breastfeeding", disregarding the 100+ citations on the risks of formula feeding at the end of the AAPediatrics Statement on the Use of Human Milk. I wonder what disadvantages to breastfeeding there might be other than this absurd statement, paraphrased, "deciding how to feed an infant needs to me a family decision based on whether or not the mother can be well nourished and well rested enough to breastfeed the baby." !!! Well, the last time I looked, it was metabolically more difficult to be pregnant than to breastfeed, and if the mother is so darned worn out from baby care, she most certainly does not have the extra energy one needs to bottle feed! Bottle feeding is expensive, difficult to do safely and a mother has the constant worry of whether or not the pharmaceutical company has made a manufacturing mistake. Certainly a mother would be better rested knowing that her baby is fed the food that God or Nature intended! The final pages of the books contain various "scientific" appearing charts, including a goal sheet for post-partum. By one week post partum, moms are supposed to shower by noon, by two weeks they need to be dressed by noon and by 3 weeks, they need to have their make-up on by noon! Whoa! In the real world of nurturing, the baby really doesn't care what the mom is wearing and probably prefers the un-made-up face anyway. Oooops! In the Baby(un)wise series, DAD is the all important God designated family head and decider of all things. I guess that's why Mom needs to worry about those things. Here's a tip Mom- throw out the schedules, attend to baby, your rest and nursing. Everything else will follow in it's time. After all, Mary (remember, the Mom who gave birth to Jesus?) didn't have a clock, a schedule or make-up to put on. She had a baby who needed her love, her milk and her physical presence. The Ezzos will appear truly Godly when they realize that those are the important things in life. Just don't get caught up in the Ezzo plans before *or* after birth.
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Summary: This guy is dangerous...
Review: This book is awful! The advice he gives about newborns and eating is dangerous.
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Summary: PLEASE dont waste your money
Review: This book is horrid and twists scripture,as does his other books.Please investigate this author before buying his books.
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