The New Contented Little Baby Book: The Secret to Calm and Confident Parenting

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The New Contented Little Baby Book: The Secret to Calm and Confident Parenting

The New Contented Little Baby Book: The Secret to Calm and Confident Parenting

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Being an absolute novice, I loved this book as it walked me through turning the light on and at what time etc. I also found that I spent more time stressing over what came next than enjoying time with my baby and I felt that she wasn't particularly supportive of breast feeding. The thing to look for now is, since the bar doesn't move, make sure you can lean over it easily to pick up and put down the baby. Some of my colleagues can barely spell their own names if you get my drift (a water pun, 10 points if you spotted that).

The claim that a baby of five months could be trained to sleep from 7am to 7pm made me laugh out loud. When you distil Gina’s methods and suggestions down to their purest form what you are left with actually makes quite a good bit of sense. These books are more of a manual on how to be a shite parent and a lack of confidence on part of the parent.Gina Ford’s Contented Little Baby routine is so well known, rightly or wrongly, that it was the first actual baby book that I added to my reading list. She's against feeding on demand, despite all the splendid evidence that this method is good for both mother and baby; and she makes parents let their children scream (in one ghastly case study a parent "gave in" after letting her child scream for THREE hours) themselves to sleep, and then when the baby has collapsed exhausted the parent must pick up the child lest he/she sleep past the strictly regimented time-frame of nap. I find it hard to believe that any new mother has been able to follow her routines successfully; how on earth you make a three. It seems that the benefits brought about by these books could be somewhat akin to a placebo - if reading this book gives you confidence or reassures you then it can't do any harm.

The Contented Little Baby Book, based on Gina Ford's personal experience of caring for over 300 babies, was first published in 1999.I do feel that a lot of the things in the book are common sense and providing you are not a total idiot, will happen naturally regardless. With detailed, prescriptive information on everything parents need to know, this book includes chapters on: - Preparation for the birth - How the routines evolved and the benefits of following a routine - Milk feeding in the first year - Understanding your baby's sleep - Establishing a routine - Introducing solid food in line with government and World Health Authority guidelines - Common problems in the first year. The routines are incompatible with breastfeeding for most people but mothers are not warned about this. Firstly, I have no idea who this woman is - there's no author biography in the book, just vague claims about "my babies". By creating routines that match a growing baby’s innate natural rhythms, Gina prevents the hunger, overtiredness and colic that can lead to excessive crying.



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