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Becoming Baby Wise. Awesome read
Just wanted to share. I'm reading this awesome book Becoming Baby Wise. Great guide on how to provide structure for your baby.
the Babywise approach is called Parent Directed Feeding (PDF), and the reason it works so well for so many parents, is because it is really what most parents are already doing when they are feeding on demand and recognizing true hunger cries and cues.
this approach may not be for everyone but I'm going to try and follow the guidelines. I have a friend who did and raves about how her baby sleeps from 7:30 pm to 7:30am since 9 weeks old.
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Re: Becoming Baby Wise. Awesome read
I double dog dare you!
Oh please oh please oh please do. I do love a good fireworks show.
'Remember, different opinions abound. Learn and discern what is best for your family. Then make a commitment with no excuses needed.'
I read what the AAP had to say but then read the book for myself.
meh.
I started STTN almost as soon as I got home from the hospital. However, my mom did not do scheduled feeding until I was 3 or 4 months old.
I just didn't nap as a baby...so I slept through the night since I was so tired.
Let me reiterate...my mom WANTED me to nap. I just refused.
I still don't take naps.
Okay, I can't be a complete jerk and post my opinion without offering another solution. I was very surprised at how quickly infants can come up with their own schedule. I nursed my daughter on demand for the first few weeks, and she got into a nice little pattern. I didn't wake her up to eat and I didn't put her down to sleep if she wasn't tired (even if I was!). She settled in to a really workable pattern of naps/feedings by about 6 weeks and by the time I went back to work (9 weeks) she was doing this: 4am nurse, 6am pump/nurse/dress for day, 7am off to work (she slept in the car from 7-8) bottle at day care around 9, slept until 12, bottle at 12:30ish, home by 2pm to nurse again (this one I always did side lying so we could snooze) nurse at 5, bath/play until 8pm, nurse and bedtime, 11pm bottle with my husband.
She kept this same schedule for a long time! I worked around her, and we were both VERY happy! I think the biggest misconception that new moms have (I know I did!) was that the baby should be on YOUR schedule. If you work you life around their natural timing, and compromise a little, you can both be very happy. It worked well for us!
-Bethany
Seeing this happen would improve my day by about 1000%
Also, how would you feel if you were all helpless and hungry and the person you depend on for food was like YOU EAT WHEN I SAY SO! Aw:(
wow. guess this board isn't open to allowing people to read and form a opion for themselves. And btw I didn't say I would ever starve my child. People can read books and take what they value out of it and not have to follow it like a bible. Geez relax! drama .
Um, no one said you can't form your own opinion. Many of us just happen to disagree with your opinion of this particular method, along with the AAP.
I guess YOU aren't open to allowing this BOARD to read your posts and form an opinion for ourselves:)
Not much of an opion when people comment 'i dare you to post this on the AP. whatever. douchebags.
Seems to be the name of choice on the bump--klassy.
Right, that wasn't an opinion, that was a dare. And that was more about the AP board than you.
This
To the OP- be very careful about posting good things about BW on the Bump boards!
I read and followed BW with DS and intend to do so with this DC. I think a lot of people take BW out of context, the book itself does state that if your baby is hungry, FEED IT! It just teaches to get the baby to fall into a pattern (not a "schedule") of sleep/eat/play. It also teaches to get the baby to take full feedings, instead of "snacking" all day long. The pattern of sleep/eat/play worked great for us, and my DS was STTN at 7 wks old (maybe it was just a coincidence, who knows, he's always been a great sleeper!).
What is funny is you are calling them out for something that is obviously an immature dare by using immature language.
Way to go.
You so can not call me a douchebag. Do you NOT see my badge?
Anyway, how the hell is stating that you should post this information on AP somehow not allowing you to have your own opinion? I made zero judgment on your review of the book and zero comment as to my thoughts on it. Babywise your kid from here to the moon for all I care, it's no concern of mine. Maybe if you stop being such a douchebag and learn to read more better you wouldn't feel the need to get so defensive about your own opinions.
Wow. Name calling. Thats mature.
buuuttttttt they are picking on her...
Irish, I lurve you.
I don't normally post on this board (seeing as how I'm a long way from 1st tri), but stumbled across this post by accident and felt compelled to comment.
Anyway, I wholeheartedly agree with the above statement. At no point in BW does it say to let your baby go hungry. What I've found is that the loudest detractors of BW haven't actually taken the time to read the book. I started using the BW schedule when my son was about 8 weeks old and withn 3-4 weeks he was STTN on a regular basis and now at 7 months he always sleep at least 11-12 hours a night. He is a happy, healthy baby and I'm so glad that my friends who used BW recommended it to me.
If someone is big into AP, they will hate this book. DH and I are not and this book has been great for our family.
I've done a lot of research on Ezzo parenting. I'm still not a fan.
Many of us are in fact informed.
I'm not AP, although I do lean a little bit closer to that than having kids STTN at 6-8 weeks.
ETA: I'm not anti sleep training. I just personally believe Ezzo advocates it at an age that is too young.