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

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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) 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. 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. 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. 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.

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.

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I think of those boys I looked after who needed such a lot of help to sleep and I know I don’t want that.

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.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 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.