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

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Ja vēlaties skaidras norādes par to, kad, kur, kā, cik daudz darīt ar mazuli, tad, iespējams, grāmata ir jums. The following page then claims the following benefits for parents: “By following the CLB routines you will soon learn the signs of hunger, tiredness, boredom or indeed many of the other reasons that cause young babies to get upset. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Mothers and babies need love and support, not wagging fingers and blacked out windows and measured-out-to-the-millileter-and-millisecond feeding and nap times.

Especially since a baby who wants to nurse longer than her time allots for throws off the rest of the schedule. In letting your little one sleep as long as they want, you will end up giving them less sleep overall, as they will wake up more frequently due to hunger and an out of kilter body clock. Horrible book and it makes me scared that there are some first time mums that might follow the advice the author is giving. Many friends recommended this book but while at the hospital it was universally scorned by the midwives and nurses. I found myself wondering when the parents can find time in her suggested schedule to shower, eat, go to the bathroom or do anything for themselves at all.What I can say about the above regime and from my own very limited experience is that within reason you can pick and choose the bits that work for you.

Of course it’s impossible to follow each schedule to the minute, and I’m not sure why anyone would expect to do so perfectly. She was a very contented baby, and on the rare occasions when she did cry we could suss out what was wrong as we understood her feeding and sleeping patterns so well. A friend who I had not seen for over a year came to visit my new born when he was two months old and said “I have never seen such a happy baby, you are lucky, some people we know have baby that cry’s all the time”.She loves the ‘practical and sensible’ approach of Gina Ford’s The New Contented Little Baby Book, which she followed ‘like a bible’. He would not breastfeed and when I was in hospital (2002) the midwives (one of whom described my newborn as “a little bugger”) put me on a routine (not my baby, me) of hand expressing every 2hrs (round the clock) in addition to demand feeding my baby using a bottle in an effort to keep up my milk production for when baby learnt to breastfeed.

We seldom had to use this and it is hard to do, but Gina gives clear guidelines on how to manage it while ensuring your child feels secure and loved. I look back on my BGE (Before Gina Era) and think of how many of my babies has cried and cried as I ever more desperately struggled to get them to sleep. 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. The routines, if they work, seem useful and my wife and I do plan on giving them a go, but even our doctor told us that we shouldn't stick to a strict feeding schedule.When you distil Gina’s methods and suggestions down to their purest form what you are left with actually makes quite a good bit of sense. Fully updated and with helpful input from clients, readers and mothers who simply love her routines, “The New Contented Little Baby Book” gives reassuring and practical advice to new parents that works from one of the UK’s most respected and most talked about maternity nurses.

According to Wikipedia, Gina is British, around 62 years of age and has been a maternity nurse to over 300 babies during her working life. while Delia tells you how to make the perfect omelette, Gina Ford in her baby-care manual The Contented Little Baby Book, draws on 30 years' experience to tell you how to nurture the perfectly happy baby. The bit that is stuck in my memory the most is the story of parents that took a sleeping pill with a glass of wine and went to sleep while their baby was crying for hours next door while being trained by Gina. A lot of books said things like give the baby a dream feed but no one told me what a dream feed was or how to do it. With detailed, prescriptive information on everything parents need to know, this book includes chapters on: - Preparation for the birth - How the routines evolved and the benefits of following a routine - Milk feeding in the first year - Understanding your baby's sleep - Establishing a routine - Introducing solid food in line with government and World Health Authority guidelines - Common problems in the first year.I often felt that I was reading new, heavy information only to realize sections contained the same times or tips previously mentioned. For example, when R was still recovering from her C-section and was absolutely drained, it made no sense for her to be hindering her recovery, getting up during the night and lumping baby over to the changing table for a new nappy and to do a drawn out feed. This book isn't totally dire if you are utterly los and in need a rigid timetable then her routines are spot on (in my experience as a nanny and mother) but her methods of achieving them are awful. 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.