Has anyone here successfully followed the Baby Wise method of starting your baby off sleeping alone? I read the book while pregnant and thought I would follow that philosophy, but I always end up with my daughter sleeping with me because I am too exhausted to physically get up every 2 hours to nurse her.
Any real life experiences with Baby Wise? If it was successful for you, what was your secret to coping with getting up so often in the night?
2007-12-01 15:52:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
I think that any book including baby wise is a nice reference and some good ideas to follow however no one book is perfect. Remember reality and text book are two different things. books can be drastically different. You go and read Dr. Sears books they encourage co-sleeping. Take and leave what you would like from each book and do what mommy instincts tell you to do.
2007-12-01 16:10:19 · answer #1 · answered by Kari K 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I read Baby Wise before I had my beautiful little boy five weeks ago and I thought it sounded like a good philosophy. Theory and reality, however, are two very different things! My baby sleeps in his own crib in his own room, but he does not fall into the convenient three hour cycles of eating, being active, and sleeping that the book said he should fall into. In the mornings he tends to stay up for several hours at a time, sometimes four or five hours, then will sleep for an equally long time. In the late afternoon and evening, he stays up for shorter amounts of time and sleeps a lot. No matter how soon I detectet him getting tired, it usually takes a lot of rocking, nursing, and several tries to get him down to sleep. And he usually ends up in my bed early in the morning when he's ready to be up for the day, but I'm not. I think there's some good information in the book, but I mostly go off of what my own mommy tells me, "do whatever works!"
If having your baby in your bed gets better sleep for you and your baby - go for it. Just be careful about taking anything (cough syrup, alcohol) that might make you sleep too deeply and increase your risk of rolling over onto your child whithout waking up. As for me and my baby, he makes far to many loud grunting noises (that have nothing to do with waking up and needing anything) in the middle of the night for me to want him in my room.
Good luck!
2007-12-01 17:22:30 · answer #2 · answered by Aledger 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good Lord, NO. Babywise is swill -- the "advice" within has been found to be detrimental to both mom and baby.
http://www.ezzo.info/
Research other parenting styles that are effective as well as beneficial to families. Here are a few interesting reads to start with.
http://www.continuum-concept.org/reading/in-arms.html
http://www.continuum-concept.org/reading/whosInControl.html
The second Continuum Concept article should interest you if Babywise appealed to a fear of a "child centered" family.
2007-12-01 16:08:53 · answer #3 · answered by Ms. Informed 3 · 8⤊ 0⤋
i could use the infant Whisperer rather. She has a particularly greater average physique of strategies to infant care. plenty relies upon on in case you agree directly to breast or bottle feed as nicely. Bottle fed toddlers are plenty much less annoying to get and save on a time table even nonetheless some great reward of breastfeeding usually far outweigh this benefit.
2016-10-02 05:43:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't like Baby Wise, it's too rigid and strict, in my opinion.
2007-12-01 16:18:22 · answer #5 · answered by SunkenShip 4 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Babywise is evil. Throw that book away.
2007-12-01 18:25:55 · answer #6 · answered by treehugger 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I just let my daughter sleep with me. Why make things harder than they have to be?
http://www.askdrsears.com/html/7/T070100.asp
2007-12-01 16:03:20 · answer #7 · answered by daa 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋