On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep (On Becoming. . .)

I rushed to buy this book after my son was born. I don't agree with everything in it but the techniques worked!

We read and followed the guidance of this book and the baby started by sleeping 5 hours straight. She later went to 8 hours straight and now is at 11-12 hours stright through the night. great book.

I used this book for my first child and he was sleeping 6 hours a night from 3 months old. Every single mom that I know who uses it loves it. It is flexible and practicle and realistic for our changing schedules. These critiques sound like they only read half the book. Ezzo says over and over that you need to be flexible.

He does NOT encourage you to let your child cry it out until they are 3 months old. Even then he says to let them cry for 5 minutes then go and check on them and then 10 minutes and go check on them then 15 minutes then check on them. This is not barbaric and is very short-lived. Most moms that I know only had to let their child cry it out for 2-3 nights.

THAT's IT! You know what happens after that? Your child learns to self soothe and gets more sleep, not to mention your own sleep. RESULT: Everybody is happier :) Moms that I know who co-slept from the start regret it by a few months old. Imagine a todler in your bed. There is no scientific basis to the "Attachement Style of Parenting". I know this because my husband is a social psych professor.

My son slept for 8 hours by 5 months after losing the binky and now at 2.5 years old sleeps 12 hours and has since he was 9 months old. Doesn't that sound nice? He is one fo the happiest, most social and confident children you will meet, people comment on this all the time.

Get the book- if you read the whole thing and still think it's not for you, then that's your choice. I recommend it to every single new mom I meet and have only heard bad feedback from one of my friends that co-slept instead and now at 1 year old regrets it.

I tell people our next child could be completely different, but there must be something to the method.

My wife and I (mostly her) followed "Baby Wise" and at 5 weeks our baby was sleeping 8 hours or more a night, every night, and was measured by a doctor to be in the 95th percentile for weight and length.

That all I have to say about that!

Dave

This is absolutely one of the best books for any mom-to-be (or mom-to-be-again). Whether you decide to follow the advice strictly or not, this book gives you great insight on life after bringing baby home. The basic principals set up in this book (like flexible scheduling and encouraging a sleep-eat-wake schedule) can be applied to almost any situation. Though, yes, bringing a baby home is a huge challenge and this book will not relieve you of all your future parental worries and frustrations - it will however give you a guideline to follow when uncertainty sets in. And it worked for us! We flexibly used this book with both our daughters and both were sleeping through the night by 8 weeks (despite many early on frustrations and complications with our youngest). I would recommend this book to any mom-to-be - but I do think reading this coupled with other strategies as well will give you a more complete picture of what works best for you.