HBotB: Anyone try it and it DIDN'T work?

purple_posies · September 2009

Everytime I see this mentioned I hear nothing but great, positive, wonderful things about it. I bought the book and am in the middle of reading it right now. It all makes sense.

But I'm curious to see if anyone has tried to use the methods mentioned in the book with no success?

Just looking for the other side of the coin, here.

TimsMayBride · September 2009

There were times at the height of DS's fussiest period that NOTHING worked and we just had to ride it out. Then there were times where it worked for a few minutes then we had to try something else. In general though if we used some or all of the techniques before he got too worked up, we could avoid a full blown breakdown.

Kendall13 · September 2009

Love it. We must have the happiest baby.

CalinsBride · September 2009

The 5 S's eliminated The Witching Hour in our house. It takes 2 minutes to calm him down now. Nothing but praise for that book here!

JewelzNBean · September 2009

It works really, really well for us. Calms DS down in a minute or less - BUT for us it has to be done vigorously and completely (doing all 5 s's at once). DH often will try to do 4 out of the 5 (he hates to swaddle him cos he can't do it as tight as I do and DS gets out of it right away) and it never works as well as when he is swaddled. We love it!