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

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Bu kitap sayesinde ilk aydan beri bebeğimin gece ve gündüz uykuları düzenli, banyo rutinimiz, günlük rutinimiz, beslenme rutinimiz uyum içinde. Gün içerisinde sürekli düzeni değişmeyen bebek ve iyi uyuyan bebek haliyle son derece mutlu, huzurlu ve öğrenmeye açık oluyor. Olumsuz yorumlara kulak asmamanızı öneririm. Öncelikle hangi kitabı okursanız okuyun her bebeğin farklı olduğunu unutmamak gerekir. Dolayısıyla kendi bebeğinizi tanıyıp Ford’un yöntemleriyle harmanlarsanız bence başarı elde etmemeniz mümkün değil. My openness to Fordian thinking began a long time ago, when I was a student in New Zealand and my part time job was being a mother’s help to newborn babies in a posh part of town. How to "cry it out" once your child is developmentally ready. Definitely read the book instead of just googling how to do it. Interesting to read the psychology of what to do and why.

One of the most helpful things to know from this book: "No baby under 4 months should be allowed to stay awake for longer than two hours at a stretch. Care should also be taken not to overstimulate the baby 30 minutes prior to being put to bed." (p 41) Basically, the book is inhuman. It treats children like some species of wild animal. It treats parents like they have to be trained not to love their children. Horrid. I was determined to do it right, and I remember feeling so frustrated when Barnaby didn’t quite fit into her daily plan. Kitap önce bebek için ne almanız gerektiğni, bebeğinizi ne sıklıkla beslemeniz gerektiğini, emzirme pozisyonu ya da biberonla beslemeyi tercih ettiyseniz biberonla bebeği besleme pozisyonu gibi bölümler içeriyor. Sonrası da bebeğin uyksunu, yeme düzenini ve alışkanlıklarını anlamaya yönelik bölümler ve sık sorulan sorular içeriyor. İlerleyen bölümlerde ise 12. Aya kadar her ay için saat saat örnek rutin programı var. Son olarak ise bebeklerin karşılaştığı problemlerden bahsediliyor.

Six boys in the space of nine years, with different personalities, needs, bodies, temperaments, all squeezed into one basement room. After all, this book promises to teach parents tried and tested methods to get their baby to sleep through the night by the time they are 10 weeks old. So impromptu lunches were out, as are late nights with a baby sleeping in a car seat under a restaurant table.

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. Babies who are settled into Gina's gentle routines are happy and contented because their needs for food and sleep are appropriately met and they should sleep for their longest spell at night from an early age. 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. I think that this approach probably isn't for me - if I had a better memory and could internalize the "golden rules" then perhaps I think there may be some sense in there. As it is, I expect the book would cause more stress in trying to remember things than any possible benefit. I'll probably read the excruciatingly titled "Baby Whisperer" next. This book saved me and my relationship with my first born. My mother and mother in law loved this book. They cared for their own babies in a very similar way and it made sense to them. Learn the secret to getting your baby to sleep through the night--so you can get the rest you need. You’ve heard horror stories about babies who cry constantly, need to eat every two hours, and never learn to sleep through the night. And now, whenever you think about your soon-to-be-born bundle of joy, you can’t help wondering how you’re going to manage those two a.m. feedings and non-stop crying jags--and how you’re going to live your already-hectic life on little (or no) sleep. Relax! If you follow the practical, real-life advice in The Contented Little Baby Book, your baby should be sleeping through the night at around six to ten weeks. You’ll learn why you shouldn’t follow the conventional “feed on demand” advice. You’ll understand why even older babies can benefit from sleeping and eating schedules. And soon you’ll have what every parent wants--a happy, healthy, contented little baby. Drawing on twelve years of experience researching and studying the natural sleep rhythms and feeding patterns of young babies, one of Britain’s top maternity nurses shows you how to… * Recognize the difference between hunger and tiredness The other anti Gina Ford battle cry is the way she suggests leaving your baby for a bit to cry it out when you put them down to sleep.Gina Ford's bestselling The Contented Little Baby Book established Gina as one of the UK's most influential voices in baby and childcare issues. Her groundbreaking routines have been the salvation of hundreds of thousands of parents and her sound advice on weaning and sleep has guaranteed contented little babies in households around the world. When people ask me how I have had six boys and not be crippled by the sheer exhaustion of it all, I say I’m not tired, because they sleep. I got to see what worked well, and what didn’t work well, in a real, tender, dirty-dishes-and-shouty-parents-and-wet-beds kind of proximity. With detailed, prescriptive information on everything parents need to know, this book includes chapters on:

Great advice about many many things, given in a non-pushy way. Other books push the advice on you, but this one feels more like suggestions being offered by a friend. I found that the early feeding schedules in this book were not able to satisfy our baby, and so I breastfed more on-demand (my doc's rec) for the first 6 months, instead of implementing Gina Ford's schedules. That said, after 3 months, I began to "concentrate" a little more on the schedules with the feedings, but still didn't keep exclusively to them: if my baby was hungry in between, I just breast-fed her a bit. Now... I have a 4 month old baby boy, and I am constantly receiving compliments about how happy, contented and well behaved he is. He has already been on 4 transatlantic flights and hardly made a peep for any of them. And guess what.... there isn't a single shred of routine in his life! He sleeps when he's tired. He eats when he's hungry. He plays in between.... and we are all getting on just fine. I knew when to leave them, when to go to them and when to know that today, it wasn’t going to go according to plan. While this can seem overwhelmingly mean and Victorian, it is really about knowing when to leave a baby – a raw, new thing, fragile and often sensorily overloaded – some quiet, restful, respectful space.

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I had to be stroking his hair, with a lamp on and the door left open, and the baby needed perpetual motion to nod off. Having noted that I was reading the book, my respected friends-with-kids were unanimous in their hatred of the "Queen of routine". I didn't get such a strong reaction myself, but I expect I'm more likely to once the kid arrives - though I will say Ford has an unfortunate tendency towards smugness which is not going to help in winning over her critics. GF insists on many occassions throughout the book that "her babies" all slept through the night/didn't get colic/blah and therefore her methods are proved correct. Well, how unscientific is that? It doesn't appear to occur to her that she doesn't work with a random selection of parents and children - far from it, since she's helping out people who can afford her and - by definition - you could switch the language around and just say that the conclusion from this book is: get a nanny.

I was given this book by my sister-in-law and told to read it with a grain of salt. I did read it, cover-to-cover, 5 months ago, during the last few weeks of my pregnancy. Even at the time, I found certain suggestions such as ironing your baby's sheets (which will only be pissed/shat/puked on within 24 hours) absurd. Parents of infants barely have time to get themselves showered let alone iron bedsheets. I also developed a great deal of skepticism upon reading that Gina Ford does not have children of her own. However, having absolutely no experience with babies or children, I decided to reserve judgement on this book until after a few months of real life with a baby. As for me, after I nailed that sleeping-through-the-night thing at six months (a little later than she said it would happen, but hey ho) I was pregnant again, and then again, and then again and then again.Mucizevi bir kitap. Pandemi nedeniyle doğum sürecinde ve yeni doğan bebeğimle tamamen yalnız ve tecrübesiz bir anneyken hamilelikte okuduğum bu kitap hayatımı kurtatdı, kolaylaştırdı. Çevremdeki herkes bebeğimle olan iletişimime ve bebeğin düzenine şaşırdı. The introduction of solid foods was too early for us in this book. We waited til 6 months to introduce solid foods with our baby. But then we took Gina Ford's advice on the topic, with much success. This book is awful. A friend of mine read it and declared she was either going to burn it or give it to me if I was curious. Now that I've read it I think I may well burn it, lest it fall into the hands of a mother who would be quite fine with her new baby without being told _every second of every day_ what she should be making her child (and herself) do. For those readers who say that the author’s routines and suggestions are “cold,” this isn’t a how-to book on providing your child with what it wants on-demand, and if that seems harsh then it’s just not your style. This is a book that’s meant to explain how routines can ultimately benefit your child and your entire family. I never got the impression that following these routines was somehow unloving, especially since the author explains how overhandling and overstimulating your baby is not in its best interest. Well, I think that The Contented Little Baby Book is really like a best practice manual, written by someone who has done the job of caring for many, many babies – and she is telling you what generally works.