What do you think of the baby whisperer? vs. Dr. Sears?

Question

I am a huge Dr. Sears and Attachment Parenting fan.
Before I consider reading her book..
can you tell me about the Baby whisperer and what her views are on sleeping, co-sleeping, sleep training, responding quickly to your babies crys?

Answer 1

I'd advise you to read her book, other viewpoints are always helpful.

However, I wasn't enamoured with her. Anyone who calls the reader "dear," "duckie", and "love" is asking to turn off her readers. She has a very "My way works and if it doesn't work you aren't doing it right/long enough" attitude.

Co-sleeping: she's against it, totally, if I recall.

Responding quickly to cries: absolutely! She advocates never letting a baby cry alone.

Sleeping: She talks of watching your baby for sleep cues, ensuring the baby gets sufficient sleep, training the child to sleep by helping them to learn how to do it.

sleep training: She's against props, as she calls them (no rocking baby to sleep, no nursing baby to sleep). Baby sleeps in own bed, and you help teach. The one that turned me off was her pick up / put down technique for older children. Basically, baby cries, you pick him up, console him, the instant he stops he goes back in bed. Repeat ad nauseum until baby falls asleep. She claims it works for every baby, and if it's not working for your baby it's because you're not doing it right / long enough. Baloney. It pissed off my baby more than anything else, after a few nights of no sleep and sore back, I gave up.

Answer 2

First time mother or now not, you continue to have instincts. What do you think might be the exceptional procedure for her? Nobody right here can let you know the exceptional approach to get your child to sleep, however they are able to let you know the exceptional approach to get their child to sleep. When my daughter used to be five months historical, we did a variant of the cry it out. When she might get up at night time, I used to be within the addiction of simply getting up and feeding her. Well, I went again to nights and my husband used to be at house along with her. He used to be a lot slower to reply to her crying out. Sometimes by the point he bought to her (five mins tops) she might already be again asleep. If she wasn't, he might deliver her a percent. If she spit it out and nonetheless cried, she bought a bottle. Rocking the child all night time wasn't within the playing cards for us both. On a part word, have you ever ever idea approximately getting her checked through a chiropractor? I certainly not believed in them till after I had my child and might slightly stroll given that my backbone used to be so misaligned from the epidural. I had a near buddy that I cited the chiro given that her child had horrible reflux and it entirely bought rid of the reflux. Just a idea.

Answer 3

The Baby Torturer (oops I maen Whisperer) is just another sleep training guru. She is anti co-sleeping, anti- extended nursing, anti-most things attachment oriented.

Read it if you want to see the other side, but it may make you throw up a little in your mouth.

Answer 4

I wasted way to much time reading that book.. I checked it out at the library and read it through. I can't say that I took anything from that book to use on my parenting journey.