Sentences with phrase «babywise as»

Therefore, I don't think I really implemented Babywise as I should have from the beginning and now would be considered a «late starter.»

Well, I've long felt that as someone who is intimately familiar with the culture and climate of Christian parenting, Gary Ezzo exploits the fears of many Christian parents by portraying families who don't follow Babywise as families where the children usurp the authority of the parents and bring shame on them with their selfish, demanding behaviors.

Since the recommendations are the same and the two programs very similar, this warning would apply to Babywise as well.

Not exact matches

Valerie, thanks for posting some info on reflux - I was so frustrated as a Babywise mom because I thought my baby was just fussy / difficult and really she was in pain.

I tried adding additional feeds to follow the babywise schedule as we have hit 8 weeks and I would like to encourage her to sleep longer at night but she is fighting against it... all feeds closer than 4 hours she feeds for 10 mins then becomes fussy and won't feed so instead of rearranging her feeds and hopefully dropping the MOTN feed she just feeds less more often.

I definitely believe nurture can impact a personality, as I think most parents who follow the Babywise philosophy believe.

And I really hope that comment didn't come off as elitist about Babywise.

I really think that babywise should have mentioned pumping after 5 hours as an option instead of having to wake the newborn.

I have read Babywise, although I am finding it difficult now to even stick with a feeding schedule, as the baby is CONSTANTLY rooting (5 weeks old).

Although Babywise says to feed a hungry baby, it usually instructs parents to observe a time interval between feedings, or a certain order of events, such as only feeding the baby after she wakes up.

Mismanagement of breastfeeding through a scheduling regime, as is encouraged by popular «baby - training» programs such as On Becoming Babywise (Ezzo & Bucknam, 1995) and Growing Kids God's Way (Ezzo & Ezzo, 1993) can also wreak havoc on how a mother is able to decipher her baby's cues, since she is taught to watch the clock to determine when to feed the baby, not his signals that he is hungry.

I too have used Babywise with my almost 8 month old - and i too get lots and lots of compliments on how happy she is... we have our ups and downs as she develops but thats life:) I also think if you are going to use babywise - you cant use it losely - it will just confuse mom aBabywise with my almost 8 month old - and i too get lots and lots of compliments on how happy she is... we have our ups and downs as she develops but thats life:) I also think if you are going to use babywise - you cant use it losely - it will just confuse mom ababywise - you cant use it losely - it will just confuse mom and baby.

I can not go back and time and speak that truth over her as she worries with each creak of the rocking chair, but what I can do is take her story and lay it on top of my copy of Babywise and wrap it all up in a brown paper package, get out my trusty black Sharpie, and on top of it all write this word:

I've noticed as I've read through the comments and feedback from the few brave and admirable souls who have shared their families» positive experiences with incorporating the Babywise methods into their approaches for baby care: most of the positive feedback had to do with the benefits of a feeding schedule.

A LOT of the objections I see to Babywise are ideas that the Ezzo's never meant to convey (or possibly the text had changed by the time I took the course — mine was not the first edition, and I know they got a lot of feedback and made some alterations as they went)-- such as «never feed your baby if it's not a scheduled time».

My only request is that if you do share your feedback as a comment, please, please limit your response to criticism or support of the ideas of Babywise and / or scheduled feedings.

For the noble few who have dared stick with me through this post which is quite clearly not much more than free therapy for me - this is my chief concern about Babywise: It's not the idea of scheduling (although I can not get on board with cry - it - out infant sleep training as part of that schedule), it's not the way orderliness and predictability are lauded and practically guaranteed, and it's not the sketchy breastfeeding advice / information.

This is longer than is recommended in Babywise and Prep, but as an adult with adult metabolism, the «baby» should have the ability to wait six hours during the day and to fast overnight.

As a Christian, I am saddened by the widespread acceptance of Babywise.

I wish that more of us had spoken out earlier,» says Sears, who has in the past referred to «Babywise» as «probably the most dangerous program of teaching about babies and children that I have seen in my 25 years of being a pediatrician.

Dr. Robert Bucknam, a young Denver - area pediatrician, is listed as co-author of the «Babywise» books, while Ezzo and his wife, Anne Marie, are named as the sole authors of their religious counterparts.

However, as more parents like Lori and Theo Rivas speak out about their negative experiences with the advice contained in the books, «Babywise I» and «II» have also become the most controversial American child - care guides in 20 years or more.

In addition, the most commonly noted periods of weight loss in Babywise babies that I have documented (and others as well) show up at the 2 month and 4 month well baby checks further giving support to the conclusion that healthy growth is probably affected well before the magic 2 and 4 month age guidelines given in Babywise.

Despite the plethora of respected research demonstrating the critical importance of early parent - child attachment, «Babywise» breezily dismisses this concept as little more than self - indulgent psychobabble.

With our first child, I was still of the strict belief that babies slept in cribs away from their parents, but after trying to let him cry it out via similar methods, and witnessing him becoming so upset with the sudden and unexpected transition and the separation from us that he vomited multiple times and screamed until he could not make a sound anymore, I knew that there was no way that this abuse that is thinly veiled as «Babywise» could possibly be for real.

Dr. William Sears, a practicing pediatrician and clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, as well as the bestselling author of more than 20 child - care titles including «The Baby Book,» has been one of the most vocal critics of «Babywise.»

This, combined with the book's recommendation for less than optimal numbers of feedings, could have been the cause of many of the cases we have seen of «Babywise» babies with poor weight gain and a diagnosis of failure to thrive,» says Barger, who has served as president of ILCA and as a member of the examining board for lactation consultants» professional certification.

Finally home from the hospital, I reviewed the Babywise book, preparing to tackle the schedule again just as soon as my son had gained enough weight.

Although GFI makes no attempt to obfuscate its own agenda as an activist evangelical Christian organization in its other, openly religious materials, parents who buy or are given the seemingly mainstream «Babywise» books have no way of knowing that the books» advice is based largely on GFI's own unique biblical interpretations.

Thanks for posting on this... Sadly, over the years as Babywise has gone more «mainstream,» a new generation of moms is being seduced by the promises and faulty logic in the book.

The bestselling «Babywise» books, generally available in the family and parenting aisles of major bookstores, are fundamentally the same guides as the Ezzos» Christian versions, but with a crucial difference: All biblical and theological references have been removed.

Appreciate using this blog as a resource for implementing babywise!