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On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep (On Becoming. . .)
written by Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam
Studio : Parent-Wise Solutions, Inc.
by Parent-Wise Solutions, Inc.
Publisher : Parent-Wise Solutions, Inc.
Released : 2006-09-25
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9781932740080
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 190 reviews)
List Price : $13.95
Our Price : $2.87
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The infant management concepts presented in this book have found favor with over two million parents and twice as many contented babies. On Becoming Babywise brings hope to the tired and bewildered parents looking for an alternative to sleepless nights and fussy babies. The Babywise Parent Directed Feeding concept has enough structure to bring security and order to your baby's world, yet enough flexibility to give mom freedom to respond to any need at any time. It teaches parents how to lovingly guide their baby's day rather than be guided or enslaved to the infant's unknown needs. The information contained within On Becoming Babywise is loaded with success. Comprehensive breast-feeding follow-up surveys spanning three countries, of mothers using the PDF method verify that as a result of the PDF concepts, 88% breast-feed, compared to the national average of only 54% (from the National Center for Health Statistics). Of these breast-feeding mothers, 80% of them breast-feed exclusively without a formula complement. And while 70% of our mothers are still breast-feeding after six months, the national average encourage to follow demand feeding without any guidelines is only 20%. The mean average time of breast-feeding for PDF moms is 33 1/2 weeks, well above the national average. Over 50% of PDF mothers extend their breast-feeding toward and well into the first year. Added to these statistics is another critical factor. The average breast-fed PDF baby sleeps continuously through night seven to eight hours between weeks seven and nine. Healthy sleep in infants is analogous to healthy growth and development. Find out for yourself why a world of parents and pediatricians utilize the concepts found in On Becoming Babywise. |
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Absolutely the best baby book out! |
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This book is the best baby book available. It not only guides you on sleeping but eating and any other questions you may have. My son was sleeping through the night by week 11 and I didnt read the book until he was 6 weeks old. Very easy to implement. I buy this book for all my pregnant friends and the most recent has given birth and by 10 weeks her son was sleeping through the night. Yours will too if you just follow the guidelines. |
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Worked beautifully for my son |
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I bought this book along with several others while I was still pregnant. I read all of them before my son was born. I am glad I did. I also read 12 Hours Sleep by 12 Weeks Old and with the two books, I had a plan for my son. By 8 weeks he was sleeping 5 hours a night. By 12 weeks, he was sleeping about 12. He is now 6 months old and has a wonderful sleeping, playing and eating schedule. He is curious and on, or ahead of, all of the developmental milestones. I am constantly being told how "lucky" I am by other mothers with babies my son's age. I don't think it is luck at all, I think it is what I learned from the book. With everything, you will have to read it to decide if it will work with you and your values. It did with me and I'm glad because I have a beautiful, happy, thriving son and I give a lot of credit to what I learned from this book. |
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Somewhat helpful.. |
I was recommended this book by several people whose babies slept through the night as a result of the scheduling that is layed out in this book. So for that I gave this 3 stars because I know it works for some people. I did try this method for a while but it just didn't work for my son. Actually as a result of the more sleep that the book suggests (more napping) my son woke up much more during the night. I was convinced that all the people who recommended this book to me couldn't be crazy so I stuck with it for quite some time before I realized that it just wasn't going to work for us and that I needed to read my sons cues and not go by a formula. My 3 month old began developing his own schedule once I gave him the freedom and didn't try to force him into my schedule and it's worked out much better for us. He naps less often than the book recommends for his age. Also because my baby would spit up so much I had to begin feeding him before his nap times in order for the food to settle in his stomach and then I would feed him again after he woke up but much less. If I fed him an entire meal right after he woke up he would spit up atleast half of his meal. So for those of you who have babies who spit up a lot try doing wake/ eat/ activity/ eat/ nap. Also this book says that in order to get a baby to sleep longer at naps cut back on his wake time. This has worked for many mom's. BUT This backfired on me - I had to lengthen his wake time in order to get him to sleep longer on a nap. I have used some of the recommendations in this book though - for instance, atleast having some sort of schedule has been helpful for me. And also putting him to bed and waking him up at the same time each day is very helpful.
Remember though that your baby is an individual and what works for some babies may not work for yours! ... and that's OKAY! Follow your maternal instincts.. |
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Most useful sleep book |
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Every day that my child did not sleep through the night after reaching 12-13 pounds, I bought another book with sleep advice. This is the fifth and final book that I bought. Every friend I recommend it to is incredibly grateful and I am forever grateful to the friend who recommended it to me. |
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The happiest baby and parents around! |
My wife and I are were very skeptical about this book, especially after reading all of the negative stuff on the net. But after hearing some rebuttals by people who actually read and used the book, we decided it couldn't hurt to read it.
After reading it, we decided to give it a try, with our radar on full alert to anything that might rub us the wrong way. Long story short: we don't know what we would have done without this book. True, we had to slightly modify the method for our baby (something the author encourages), but by 4 months our son was sleeping through the night (from 8pm to 8am), taking nice naps in the day, and eating (breast feeding)... all more or less on schedule. It was like a miracle.
We happen to have a bunch of friends who had babies around the same time, give or take a year. Most of them are what you'd consider "hippies" (heck you might consider US hippies too), and all of them are followers of the "attachment baby" method of parenting. For those of you that don't know what this is, do a Google search. Since they tend to be very judgmental about other methods of raising children -especially of the "BabyWise system- we largely kept kept the details of many aspects of our parenting from them. They eventually found out that we weren't co-sleeping or "wearing" the baby 24/7, but that's about all they knew. They certainly were wondering why our baby was sleeping through the night at 4 months, while their much older babies were waking up many times throughout the night. Maybe they also noticed behavior differences in our son, but we never really talked about it.
Suffice to say that my wife and I are soooo happy we went this direction.
People always comment about how happy and personable our son is. He's full of love, and positive energy; and he seems to be just well-balanced and strong for his age. And my wife and I couldn't be happier or more well-rested. :)
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