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Summary: A Must for Baby First and Parent Second
Review: I have to address the negative distressed person reviewing the book (several times). I have to disagree that you have to be a doctor to know what is best for your baby or what works for your baby. My pediatrician has been wrong before and I have also had to take into consideration that all children are different. Not all things work for all children including your doctor. This book worked great for me as I have used it for both of my children and had to adjust it accordingly to each one. I was not as strict as the book and I did not begin until my babies were 4 weeks. I never starved them! Once my children were on the program they were sleeping 8-10 hours a night at 5 and 7 weeks old. THey spit up and threw up less seemed content and are wonderful sleepers even at nap time. It was never an issue at bed time. Your body and metabolism responds better when it knows when food is coming instead of at all different times. I think you have to take into consideration your child and follow it as much as you can. Don't be stressed out or too strict with it! My kids were happier babies and I saw the difference.
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Summary: If you must sleep train, there are better alternatives
Review: First, I must disclose that I am opposed to sleep training. I do not agree with trying to make a baby sleep longer than they are developmentally ready to sleep. Sleep training essentially attempts to speed up the process so that babies sleep longer, sooner than they would naturally sleep. My baby was ready to sleep through the night at about 4 months. I don't think 4 months is a very big sacrifice.However, if you have decided sleep training is the way you want to go, please, please use a different resource. Babywise is definitely the worst out there among its peers of books. There are sleep training books written by actual doctors, why not use one of them? I note that Ezzo recommends starting his sleep training at birth, while doctors who recommend sleep training (and many doctors recommend against sleep training altogether) do not recommend starting it until 6 months of age. If you read this book, it comes through loud and clear that Ezzo really dislikes children. Why would you take child "care" advice from someone like that? To boot, he has no medical training.
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Summary: christian mother of six says babywise is NOT wise!
Review: I've raised six awsome children,and I must say, this book supports a philosophy of 'training' children like animals for the immediate convienence of the parents.It makes me honestly sad to see someone selling a way to justify their own selfish attitude and laziness.
Babies do not stay babies for long,but while they are babies they need to be close to thier mothers as God created them to be,
as they have been since Adam and Eve.All our kids slept near us as babies so they could breastfeed when they needed,they were cared for with extreme love and yes-self sacrifice on my part.
Even a mother cat does this!This sacrifice has more than paid off,my kids all love Jesus,they did'nt have pre-marital sex, or do drugs -they are youth pastors and missionaries with wonderful hearts for people and for the Lord! I can't tell you how often people compliment me on my kids!I'm not exagerrating. We are all very close.
I suppose I could 'train' my husband to not need me by ignoring my common sense to answer him when he called for me, but that would'nt do much for our relationship,would it? Perhaps he could 'train' me to not need him by ignoring me as well?
Well a Baby needs to be answered .God wants us to start our children out with a feeling of trust and security which they will put in Jesus one day,not start out with mistrust,abandonment,and emotional neglect .The Lord blesses us mothers with children,let us not harden our hearts to them.Believe me -sacrificial love for our husbands and children now, brings abundant rewards in the future.
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Summary: Bad News
Review: I have read this book and can tell you that there are a lot of problems with it. Here are just a few examples. Ezzo starts out with fabricated claims. He uses his fabricated claims in an effort to support his recommendations. For example, he claims that infants will be in "metabolic disarray" if they are fed on cue instead of a schedule. This unsupported claim is simply contrary to what pediatricians know to be the case (you know, doctors who actually know something about children). Following Ezzo's advice has resulted in infants failing to thrive in many cases. He recommends making an infant to wait until the next scheduled feeding even if the baby is hungry, because it will teach them to "take a full feed." This is a recipe for disaster, particularly for breastfed infants, who by nature's design will vary their intake from feeding to feeding. Doctors believe that one of the reasons breastfeeding results in less obesity later in life is that babies learn to eat the right amount, whereas bottle fed babies are more likely to learn that they should feel stuffed after a meal. He claims that breastfeeding your baby too often (more often than his schedule allows) results in lower milk production. This is simply false, and you will not find a person educated in lactation who agrees with him on this. The reality is that many women who follow his system find they lose much of their milk supply, usually around 5 months. Ezzo has no medical training, and his theories are completely without foundation, so the best he can do is make up reasons why people should follow his program. To the extent this book "works," it "works" for the same reason babies in orphanages don't cry. I wouldn't use Ezzo's recommendations to train a dog.
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Summary: Avoid!
Review: ...BR>1. If people had common sense and followed their instincts, they wouldn't use Babywise at all. One of the things Ezzo does is tell parents to ignore their instinct to comfort their baby.
2. Why do people give this book 5 stars and then proceed to say, you just have to adapt the book, take some parts and ignore others. If only parts of the book are good, why the 5 stars? The bottom line is that this book is wholly without merit, written by someone wholly without medical or childcare training (the pediatrician contributed only to the forward), and its recommendations have been denounced by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Do your research on Ezzo so at least you know what you're getting into. ...
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Summary: Read it, please, before you scream abuse.
Review: this is the biggest brew ha-ha over nothing.
I was amazed at the looks I got when I bought a friend this book for a shower present. People acted like I was giving her some torture device. I had no idea that people got so worked up over NOTHING. I asked everyone who had a negative comment if they had read the book. The answer was " Well, no!" but they "Had heard" that is was abusive. Once again the grape-vine is way off.
Read the book. It is logical. As with anything, fine tune the methods to work for you. I used it a little differently with each of my 2 kids.
PS-All the people that are SO worked up are TIRED from not getting any sleep. Take them with a grain of salt.
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Summary: Can you look at yourself in the mirror?
Review: You follow this book and let your newborn scream without helping him/her... how can you stand yourself? Do you have any mothering instinct or are you a robot? This book, and the people who use it, are planting the seeds for the insecure, warped adults of tomorrow. Babies need their mothers. If you can't stand taking care of your own child, please do us all a favor and don't have any more.
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Summary: Why I hate Babywise
Review: If you find that your child naps well after a couple weeks, I would recommend this book, because it will be an easy way to get your child on a schedule. However, my 5 month old child has trouble with naps and I have followed babywise to the T from the first day I brought my son home. The reason I hate babywise is because they make no mention to what to do if your child does not nap well. And if your child doesn't nap well, the whole PDF system fall off center and I found that my child adapted the PDF schedule so that he would wake up early from a nap (30 min) and cry until I fed him, at which point he will fall asleep at my breast. This book gives no guidance on how to get your child to nap well and I was so frustrated that I gave up and started demand feeding, and guess what, he has slept through the night since 12 weeks, and now sleeps well for 10 hours each night. Despite the authors' claims that demand fed babies don't sleep well at night. Following the strict scheduling in Babywise with a "special" child made me miserable as a stay at home mom because I was trying to control my baby as babywise said, and not all babies fit their mold. Another complaint is half of the book is about how great the book is, not real guidance on how to cope with an infant. I would not recommend this book to anyone who is having trouble with daytime sleep.
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Summary: This is a wonderful book!
Review: I couldn't read some of the negative reviews and not respond acoordindly. First of all the ingnorance of some people is disturbing! I am offended by some peoples accsations that we who followed or are following this program are bad parents! My daughter is a happy, healthy 14 month old who slept through the night at 8 weeeks of age because of this program. She has been on the 50th and 75th percentile for height and weight from day one and still is!! She is well behaved. She takes two great naps a day. I've never had to rock her or nurse her to sleep, I can simply cuddle her, lay her in her crib and walk out of the room and she goes to sleep on her own. I cannot tell you how many compliments I recieve on my daughter every time I am with my friends who are Moms of toddlers as well. Thier children require much more effort to get to sleep, to get to eat and to behave. Ezzo does not tell you to starve your child so that he or she becomes dehydrated! He teaches you to adapt the baby to this schedule but if your child is crying and nothing else will console him obvisouly he is hungry and FEED HIM!! It takes some common sense to follow this program. Unless you have tried this program and have proof of your accusations don't bother to put this program down. I know far too many people that it has worked for.
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Summary: Every Parent Should Read This Book!!!
Review: A co-worker told me about this book and I got it on a whim! This book helped me a ton, my daughter is happy healthy and has slept through the night since she was 2 months old! The book gives new parents guidelines to follow, I took the basics from the book and incorporated them to make them work for our family. We don't live on a strict schedule and if my daughter stays up till 10 o'clock one night no big deal but she still sleeps 12 hours at a time! I give this book to all my friends having babies it makes a wonderful gift!!
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