My wife is having a little bub in March – and so we are reading up a whole stack of information about these little wonders. I decided recently that I would always write up a book review whenever I read a book. So as weird as it seems – here is my “baby book review.”
Actually I didn’t enjoy this book very much. On Becoming Baby Wise seems to have a great many good ideas in it, but is just a difficult book to read. Some books are just not written in an easy reading manner, and to me this one seemed like one of those.
In the introduction it says that when a baby is born, it should join your home and your way of doing things, rather than you changing everything to suit the baby. This sounded like good advice to me. Part of training children is not necessarily to do everything that they want, but to allow them to join in with what is already happening, and this begins with babies.
The book then discusses the routines necessary to build security, self confidence and sleep in a baby. This basic formula for the first 12 weeks is to feed them every 3 hours, then give them playtime (don’t let them sleep after feeding) and then put them down for a nap. They may cry themselves to sleep at this point, but it teaches them not to need patting.
Apparently the bubs become used to this routine and learn how to put themselves to sleep and it works wonders for parents everywhere.
Sleep sounds like a good idea to me – so maybe it’s worth a shot. So the book has good ideas – but I found it a bit tedious going.
