On Becoming Baby Wise: The Classic Sleep Reference Guide Used by Over 1,000,000 Parents Worldwide...

On Becoming Baby Wise: The Classic Sleep Reference Guide Used by Over 1,000,000 Parents Worldwide | Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam | Left-winger who loves Babywise?

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	On Becoming Baby Wise: The Classic Sleep Reference Guide Used by Over 1,000,000 Parents Worldwide Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam Parent-Wise Solutions, 2001 - 238 pages average customer review:based on 1005 reviews view larger image
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Best Baby Book Ever - For Those With Common Sense

Many people have not had the best things to say about this book, but for us, it was a LIFE SAVER. The premise of the book is that 1. Feed the baby when the baby wakes up, then have wake time, then put the baby to sleep; 2. Feed every 2 1/2 to 3 hours (common sense); 3. Don't feed your baby every time he cries b/c, generally speaking, every time a baby cries he is not hungry; 4. Use common sense when knowing when to let your baby cry at night and when it is legitimate. This book is all about common sense integrated with maternal instincts that produces a baby who naturally eats and poops on a regular schedule, sleeps through the night, and is happy. Our kids were both sleeping through the night at 3-4 weeks (going to bed at 10:00 ish and waking up between 5-7:00 ish) and its not because we were just blessed with great kids, it's because we followed the advise in this book. One was exclusively formula fed and the other was exclusively breat fed and it didn't make a lick of difference. Both are very healthy and right in line on the growth charts. And there were a couple of night where there was little crying, but not enough to get stuck on a routine of waking up in the middle of the night several times a night. Of course had the crying been more than just a "hey, I think I want to nurse just because" we would have attended to the baby, just like the book suggests you do! The book does not suggest that you don't hold and cuddle and attend to your baby, it talks about not creating unnecessary habbits and using sleep props, such as nursing your baby to sleep and sharing a bed with them! I've never met anyone who has shared a bed with their baby who didn't have issues getting their child to sleep through the night in their own bed. Anyhow, this is just a wonderful book to outline the basic, common sense, on getting you, your baby, and family on a routine where baby doesn't dominate your life but become part of it. I highly recommend this book, especially to first time moms. And, as with ANYTHING, anything taken to one extream or the other (i.e. scheduled feeding or demand-feeding) is potentially unhealthy. I'll say it one more time...this book is just plain common sense and works!

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Left-winger who loves Babywise?

I'm a left-leaner, and I love Baby wise. Some of my lefty friends do not. I think that many of my friends on the left (who are parents) tend to orient themselves toward attachment parenting - possibly because it seems to some like a gentler and more nurturing parenting strategy.

Instead, I find attachment parenting to be unsustainable. I can't stand to be around some of my friends' kids, as they whine and cling to their parents, and demand to get their way at every turn. It is what their parents trained them to do. If my own kids acted that way I would not want to be around them, and that is not a good foundation for a family. There is nothing nurturing about creating a demanding brat.

The extreme lefties seem more bought into attachment parenting, and the left-leaning moderates or centrists seem to bring their political common sense in on parenting as well, using techniques balanced between Sears and Babywise, and ending up with great kids. There are exceptions, of course.

Interestingly, the few right-wing friends I have tend to have well-behaved kids that are respectful, but unfortunately those kids do not seem to understand the "why" involved in good behavior, simply that mom and dad will "whup" them if they don't obey. I think it is important for kids to learn to reason and understand, not merely obey out of fear of discipline. Of course that is down the road a bit, since this book is about very young babies, but this book is a good beginning.

Babywise, when taken with a grain of salt, seems to be a good start on the path to sustainable parenting. I don't consider any baby book to be an absolute authority, but this one is better than most, and my wife and I are much happier as parents - and we have an incredibly happy and well-behaved child - because of this book. We combined this with "Happiest Baby on the Block" for when our daughter was very young, and we got great results.

I still plan on saving the planet by voting Democratic, but I'll give the conservative Christian author of this book his due. Good work!

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This works!

This was a great help and the methods described in the book really work! I was somewhat skeptical of the book but I read through it and discarded the information I didn't find helpful or like but kept the information I could use. Getting our baby on a schedule made a world of difference. We have followed the changes in the schedule as the book suggests and we have a little one who knows when it is time for naps and makes sure you know it's time for him to sleep. He's happy when he's awake and he gets plenty of sleep all thanks in part to the schedule(s) outlined in this book.

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