It takes patience and discipline to do the routine. But do it for a few weeks BY THE BOOK and it pays off for months and months and months. It will save your sanity and make everyone, especially baby, very happy and well rested.
The number one question you get with a new baby is, "How does he/she sleep?" Everyone asks. Why?? Because most babies don't. That means most parents don't. People are amazed when I tell them our kid sleeps 12 hours every night and has a routine. They think it is impossible or magic or something. They tell us we are just "lucky" and "must have gotten a good one" because they can't believe it. Nope. We followed this book as directed. Not luck, not magic, a routine.
When we followed this book to a 'T', it worked exactly as described. My little guy is one year old now and he still sleeps from 7 pm to 7 am EVERY DAY, and has since he was 9 weeks old. Literally he has only had 3 or 4 nights in his life since 9 weeks that he has not slept 12 hours straight.
There are a lot of negative reviews for this book. I've read many of them now. I can't fathom that. Really people? All I can say is there are a ton of people out there that have very very strong feelings about co-sleeping, about breast feeding constantly, and people that can't be disciplined, or have the willpower to stick to the routine that ARE SIMPLY HATING on people that have used this book's methods successfully. I think some of them are stay at home mom's that took pride in the difficulty and think other's should have to "earn their stripes" too. I don't understand why they think suffering is the good route though. People that claim the baby will be mal-nourished, or throw out the "these authors aren't doctors" criticism are not only mis-informed on the actual plan, but they are being very over-dramatic and un-educated on the needs of the baby. It is funny how quickly people criticize authors for "not being experts" and turn around and give terrible, non-informed, even less expert opinions. You feed your baby the same amount, just not every hour all hours of the night. You funnel the feedings away from night and into day, then eventually just to 4 times daily. Many humans eat 4 times daily. It isn't dangerous or unhealthy. Yes, the babies stomach is smaller, but it is still proportionate to the baby, it doesn't mean they have to eat constantly. Of course your baby would eat every hour all night if you offered it milk, it doesn't mean it needs to. It would eat every 10 minutes if that is the routine you offer it. Why would you though? If you are worried about your milk drying up, you are not following the plan. The plan says to still pump if you need to. If you are so dramatic to claim this would cause depression or anxiety, you are wrong, it causes the opposite! My baby is always happy, very well developed, hitting all his milestones, and is happy to go to bed at night every night with this routine. Our whole family is well-rested, energetic and loving life because of this book. It is simple if you just do it and stick to it.
Save your sleep, your sanity and make the whole family happy. Use this book! For all those haters that are saying it is impossible and unrealistic, they should meet my wonderful little boy (just not between 7 PM and 7 AM because he will be blissfully sleeping). There is seriously no product on earth I would endorse more.
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It works, but you need to be consistent and track every feeding and diaper change months in
We laid down the ground work for getting our child to sleep from the beginning, which was: be consistent. At first you feed them every 1.5-2 hours for the first couple weeks, then as they get older and their weight is good for their age, you can start slowly extending that 2.5 hours to 3, to 3.5, to 4. We got to 4 hours in between feedings at 2 months, so by 2 months, our child is at their healthy weight, and he started to sleep 6-7-8 hours at month 2. Afterwards, he consistently slept 8 hours through the night. The slight variation we did was, if his next feeding (every 4 hours) was at 11 P.M. or 12 am, we would feed him at 10pmish regardless to get him to sleep at 10:45ish pm -7 A.M.-8 A.M. etc..So yeah, this concept works, but you need to be consistent and document all of their feedings and diaper changes. We check him every 1 hour to 1.5 hours for a diaper change. We used cosco formula from their website, and bought a Dr. Brown's Baby Formula Mixing Pitcher for $10 which let's us prepare a lot of formula really fast. We use a bottle warmer, so the process is really efficient. We requested our child's pediatrician give him 1 vaccine once a month, starting from month 2, to give our child's body plenty of time to recover in between shots - this means our child will finish their vaccinations slightly slower than other children, but they are receiving the ones they need still, just at a slower pace. If you do research into immunity from the mothers placenta, there is research out there suggesting that the baby has immunity into month 6 still. Anyway, do your own research, and make the best decisions for your child to stay alive.
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