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| On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep (On Becoming. . .) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam
Publisher: Parent-Wise Solutions, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  203 reviews
Sales Rank: 229
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 252
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 1932740082
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.122
EAN: 9781932740080
ASIN: 1932740082
Publication Date: September 25, 2006
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Product Description
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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 Helped me as a new mom October 3, 2008
I rushed to buy this book after my son was born. I don't agree with everything in it but the techniques worked!
 Great book September 29, 2008
We read and followed the guidance of this book and the baby started by sleeping 5 hours straight. She later went to 8 hours straight and now is at 11-12 hours stright through the night. great book.
These Critiques are over the top! September 23, 2008
I used this book for my first child and he was sleeping 6 hours a night from 3 months old. Every single mom that I know who uses it loves it. It is flexible and practicle and realistic for our changing schedules. These critiques sound like they only read half the book. Ezzo says over and over that you need to be flexible.
He does NOT encourage you to let your child cry it out until they are 3 months old. Even then he says to let them cry for 5 minutes then go and check on them and then 10 minutes and go check on them then 15 minutes then check on them. This is not barbaric and is very short-lived. Most moms that I know only had to let their child cry it out for 2-3 nights.
THAT's IT! You know what happens after that? Your child learns to self soothe and gets more sleep, not to mention your own sleep. RESULT: Everybody is happier :) Moms that I know who co-slept from the start regret it by a few months old. Imagine a todler in your bed. There is no scientific basis to the "Attachement Style of Parenting". I know this because my husband is a social psych professor.
My son slept for 8 hours by 5 months after losing the binky and now at 2.5 years old sleeps 12 hours and has since he was 9 months old. Doesn't that sound nice? He is one fo the happiest, most social and confident children you will meet, people comment on this all the time.
Get the book- if you read the whole thing and still think it's not for you, then that's your choice. I recommend it to every single new mom I meet and have only heard bad feedback from one of my friends that co-slept instead and now at 1 year old regrets it.
Sleeping through night at 5 weeks. September 18, 2008
I tell people our next child could be completely different, but there must be something to the method.
My wife and I (mostly her) followed "Baby Wise" and at 5 weeks our baby was sleeping 8 hours or more a night, every night, and was measured by a doctor to be in the 95th percentile for weight and length.
That all I have to say about that!
Dave
This is a wonderful book! Best for moms-to-be. September 17, 2008
This is absolutely one of the best books for any mom-to-be (or mom-to-be-again). Whether you decide to follow the advice strictly or not, this book gives you great insight on life after bringing baby home. The basic principals set up in this book (like flexible scheduling and encouraging a sleep-eat-wake schedule) can be applied to almost any situation. Though, yes, bringing a baby home is a huge challenge and this book will not relieve you of all your future parental worries and frustrations - it will however give you a guideline to follow when uncertainty sets in. And it worked for us! We flexibly used this book with both our daughters and both were sleeping through the night by 8 weeks (despite many early on frustrations and complications with our youngest). I would recommend this book to any mom-to-be - but I do think reading this coupled with other strategies as well will give you a more complete picture of what works best for you.
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