So why does
Babywise get all the hate?
Not exact matches
Have you ever ran across other
Babywise moms who expressed frustration at being unable to
get their babies to sleep in until feeding time?
I feel like I comb through it everyday along side my
babywise books to
gets helpful tips for little one.
Lastly - I am confused because in
Babywise it says to do 7 feedings a day but it's also saying to do the dreamfeed to
get them to sleep through the night.
I would say to continue to follow the
Babywise schedule, make sure they are
getting enough feedings during the day and with time, they'll start to sleep longer.
I have a question... I have a two week old that I have to wake up at each 3 hour eating interval and each night he sleeps two 4 or 5 hour sessions... This only allows me to
get 7 feedings in and
babywise suggests 8 feedings at the very least at this stage - should I go to a strict 2.5 hour schedule all day in order to keep the 8 feedings??
You will
get a lot input from many moms that do
Babywise.
I have twins who are now 19 months old and we followed
Babywise from 2 weeks (well, we followed it from Day 1, but the first two weeks we followed the BW advice to just roll with what came,
get to know our two little babies, and make sure they
got full feedings).
Different groups have different strengths (some seem to have strong contingents of
Babywise supporters, some have lots of resources for lactation consultants, many have both) but they'll all
GET it, and there will be other moms with toddler + twins that will have tips and advice and general commisseration.
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 a
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 a
babywise - you cant use it losely - it will just confuse mom and baby.
I needed to
get all of that said so that you'll fully know that the points I am picking at when it comes to
Babywise have to do with Mr. Ezzo and his book.
Right now you can
get free shipping at on the Svan highchair through
Babywise!
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:
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».
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.
Salon
Getting Wise to
Babywise feature article includes a statement by Dr. Richard Ferber rebutting Ezzo's ideas on continuous nighttime sleep for small babies:
I felt complete relief and, like a fool, decided right then that it was ok to
get back into our
Babywise schedule.
I thank God that I had a C - section with my first baby and HAD to lie around with her for the first 6 weeks... it definately
got me more established with reading her cues than if I had be «able» to follow
Babywise right away.
I have a 5 week old and have done
babywise since day 1, but now she is having trouble settling down for her naps... I let her cry it out for 30 minutes and she is still unable to
get herself to sleep... I can put her in the swing and she will sleep until the next feeding on a 3 hour schedule.
If I tell people I followed the
Babywise books, I
get criticized for it (though if you actually read those kinds of books, they never say to deny your child food or leave them to cry for hours on end).
I recently started trying to
get my 3 - week - old on a
babywise routine.