Showing posts with label babywise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label babywise. Show all posts
Babywise tips for working parents
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I read Babywise while pregnant with my first child. It jived with our natural parenting philosophy and gave us structure for how to start. I think that is what I love most about Babywise…the ”start as you mean to go on” mentality. We parent very similarly to this day as we did
Dads Are Parents Too
By Hank Osborne from DaddyLife.net
There is no greater calling for a man than that of being a husband and then a father. Dad has a responsibility to love, protect, and provide for the family. The Daddy Life podcast and blog was created to help dads fulfill those responsibilities and more. The choices a dad makes directly affects the future of
Take baby steps to get first-time obedience
If you’ve read my blog at all, it’s likely you understand the value of training a child in first-time obedience (FTO). First-time obedience is a phrase commonly heard in
Eat/Wake/Sleep Routine (EWS or EASY)
Sleep Training- BabyWise
The key to BabyWise is starting with a eat/activity/nap routine and Parent-Directed Feedings (PDF) from the beginning as well as having appropriate waketimes, sleep time routines (see pre-sleep routine) and avoiding bad sleep props/associations. BabyWise is also a big advocate for having your baby sleep in his own bed by himself. Once again, ideally you would start doing all the above mentioned things when baby
Parent-Directed Feeding (PDF)
There are many feeding methods out there--demand feeding, hyperscheduling, cry feeding, demand schedule, self-regulating schedule, clock feeding, natural feeding, rigid feeding, cue feeding, responsive feeding. Which to do? Is demand feeding the only way to fulfill your baby's needs? Will scheduled feedings dry up your milk supply if you are breast feeding? With all the choices out there and so many people telling you to do this or that it can be
Babywise - Book Review
While I do not agree with 100% of this book and don't particularly enjoy the writing style of it, I generally like and agree with the information in it. The main points in this book include: promoting full feedings instead of snacking, frequent daytime feedings and awake periods (with the EWS cycle) to help baby distinguish day from night, teaching a baby to fall asleep on his own and the importance of sleep to both a baby and his parents.
The thing you need to be careful about while implementing the strategies in this book is to not become too obsessed about doing everything perfect, realize that every baby is different and don't be too strict with your routine. This method of parenting will work better for some babies than it will for others. Babywise kind of makes you think that your baby will follow the "routine" or "schedule" exactly but that is definitely not the case. There are going to be ups and downs along the way.
Just in case you're wondering, I did use the scheduling principles in Babywise (which were pretty much the same as the baby whisperer) and successfully nursed all my children past a year. I wanted to point this out since I am sick and tired of all the remarks that babies will be malnourished on Babywise. That is not true. If you are following the Babywise principles correctly which tell you to feed baby when he is hungry and to monitor weight and output, you should be fine.
Here is a great article about Babywise myths. There are a bunch of other "wise" books out there to help you with every stage of development. See "wise" books here.
Many people who like Babywise also really like The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems. This book is similar to Babywise but doesn't agree with ever letting your child cry by himself which Babywise agrees with to an extent. Terrific Toddlers by Mel Hayde is also a great series that goes along well with Babywise.
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