Vermilion The new contented little baby book: The Secret...
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5.00/5
- Strengths:
You can teach your child the life skill of self settling, child slept through early
- Weaknesses:
Use as a loose guide not a bible
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This book helped me immensely. It is very prescriptive with times to feed, sleep and wake the baby but I started off just following the feed times and the sleep times slowly slotted into place. I then had a child that slept 10pm-7am at 10 weeks and 7pm-8 or 9am from 13 weeks. Not only this but he has slept well ever since (now almost 4). He can always settle himself back to sleep and never had a dummy. It also helped when we went abroad because although the times were mixed up for a day or 2 with the time difference and flights, he was able to quickly slot back onto the routine he knew.
I realise that people complain about this book and believe it means leaving your child to cry for long periods of time but I can confirm it doesn't and another great thing about it is that you can follow it as closely or loosely as you like to get some benefit from it. IIl be using it again for my next baby due in Feb. - Strengths:
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2.50/5
- Strengths:
Gives hope when sleep deprived
- Weaknesses:
It isn’t natural for a breastfed baby to sleep through and Sticking to The routines is stressful
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I bought this book after a recommendation and it gave me some hope whilst in the hell of newborn sleep deprivation! However, sticking to the routines is extremely stressful - it made it very hard to go out and socialise (important to improve mental health!) and we struggled to get to baby groups when trying to follow the plan.
A breastfed baby sleeping through is also not necessarily a good thing if they haven’t got there themselves. Once we stopped trying to follow the routines our lives (mine and my baby’s!) were so much happier - and sleep gets better eventually! - Strengths:
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Description
The New Contented Little Baby Book features the most up-to-date advice available to parents by bestselling author Gina Ford. She shares her take on feeding and sleeping routines and anticipating babies needs (beofre they become needs) as well as a host of other issues from preparing for birth, benefits of a routine, feeding and sleep and many more.
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