On Becoming Babywise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep - Interactive Support (On Becoming.) Kindle Edition

I'm a single mother to a newborn, and this book goes on and on about how important it is for a baby to have happily married parents, and how it'll screw their relationships up for life if they don't have that. I don't think that has to be true. Single mothers do a great job all the time, and parents who are no longer together can successfully co parent. I'm finding it very painful and depressing to read a book that says my child will be forever damaged because I'm no longer married to her father. They are perpetuating a horrible message...the authors should get with the times and realize that not every baby has two parents, or two married parents, and we can still provide a stable and loving home.

This is a product in which I’d have to employ the “good for you, not for me” mentality.A person I work with recommended this book to me. Much of the book is about basic parenting, which is fine, but probably is only helpful if your baby is under a few weeks old and you are a first time parent.It’s not my style of parenting. My daughter is 4 months old and she still eats every 3 hours (medically necessary), even at night (and I work full time). I’ve adjusted. She is not a burden in my life as the book will make it seem. I know these baby snuggles and the way she sweetly holds my hand is limited and I will soak up every minute of it.I feel like the techniques suggested can easily become neglectful learned helplessness all under the rouse of “self-soothing,” especially at a very young age.The over-obsession with scheduling is unreasonable unless you’re a stay-at-home parent totally dedicated to it and rarely do anything to shake it up on the weekend. Not to mention how limiting nursing time to this degree can have detrimental effects to supply.This book is constructed to give new parents anxiety and that they should worry about every variant in the baby’s schedule. The book compared the baby waking up early from a second nap to the anxiety you should feel if you’re on a radio show about to go live and your mics don’t work. This is not a situation that warrants anxiety. Relax. Enjoy parenthood. Don’t micromanage your baby. Enjoy their smiles and their drool all over everything from scootching around the living room.Also, it should be mentioned that the studies used have extremely small sample sizes that would not be accepted under a medical discipline.

I am so glad we bought this book! We don't necessarily follow every word strictly, but adopting its guidelines and principles allowed us to go from feedings every 45 mins - 1.5 hrs to typically a consistant every 3 hr feeding with our daughter. She was 4wks when we started the eat-wake-sleep concept and that has given us some much needed consistency and predictability. Life is a lot less stressful when you at least have some predictability with a newborns needs and she adopted the pattern so quickly! She genuinely seems happier now and I'm more confident she is getting the right amount of nutrition because her hunger cues on right on time with the planned feedings, not erratic like before. We are a little "behind" on the nightly wake up schedule that the book discusses, but I feel like for now she still needs the extra feeding and we are happy with our schedule and number of wake ups for now.I was nervous this book wouldn't apply to breastfeeding babies but that is far from the truth. Give it a shot!

YOU GUYS! All i know is this - a friend told me to buy this and read ONLY the chapter on scheduled feeding, so i did and now my baby SLEEPS THROUGH THE NIGHT. That is ALL I know so 5 stars!!!!

This book came highly recommended to me. Unfortunately it’s filled with inconsistencies so the schedules from week to week do not line up. It’s also quite stressful to follow the schedules to a T. After 2 weeks of doing our best to follow schedules and merge night feedings, we decided to donate the book and let our baby take the lead. She developed a schedule that meets her needs and gained hours of sleep rapidly on her own, resulting in sleeping 13 hours a night by 13 weeks old. It wasn’t a straight “1 more week for each week of life” train, but she got there when it was right for her.I believe these sleep books prey on first time parents and their fear of never sleeping again. I wish I could tell my pregnant self to chill out, ignore books and recommendations, and rest assured that my baby will get on the right schedule on her own.

This book was a life saver when I had my baby. He was sleeping through the night at 6 weeks following this plan. Now I buy them as baby gifts for my friends.

There's a lot that's unpredictable about having a baby, but this book really outlines a reasonable method for helping one's newborn adjust to sleep/feed cycles that best support their growth (and the mother's sanity). I feel so much better prepared now that I've read it!

Good book for a baseline to start sleep training. We got a lot of good advice from it and at 3 months our little guys was sleeping through the night.

Have used this book myself and just bought this again for a friend. Revolutionalized my children. The slept really well using this and sleep really well now. Would highly recommend the principles in this book.

I didnt like the book, so this "method" its not for our family

Good book

Great book. Good delivery time etc

At 10 weeks old my baby was waking every 2 hrs at night. I had enough. I came across this book in my search for something to implement to get us some sleep. This book focuses on parent directed feeding (not feeding for comfort, but for hunger) and an eat-awake-sleep cycle. It got us on a schedule and my little guy was so happy with this. Naps improved and so did night time sleep. He is now sleeping through the night consistently since 14 weeks.I was very focused on staying on schedule when we first started to get him into routine. But now at 5 months we can be a little flexible knowing that it won't affect his night time sleep (because let's face it, I love a full night's sleep).These principles aren't for every parent. They worked for us and we have a very happy baby who falls asleep independently.