Thursday, August 18, 2005
Nurturing Newborns
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Molly over at Choosing Home posted her tricks and philosophy of "sleep training" your infant. I pretty much have followed her exact method myself, so she made it easy for me to describe with but a link!
I also recommend "The Baby Whisperer" which describes a fairly balanced flexible routine and certainly does not prescribe letting 8 week old babies "cry it out". I am sure that strongly attatchment style mom's probably wouldn't like it, but it is a FAR sight more sensitive and nurturing than any of Ezzo's material. This book's plan on how to fix bad habits later really helped me be able to gently break the still rocking-to-sleep-every-nap-and-night routine at 1 year old with my eldest which was exhausting me.
I also recommend "The Baby Whisperer" which describes a fairly balanced flexible routine and certainly does not prescribe letting 8 week old babies "cry it out". I am sure that strongly attatchment style mom's probably wouldn't like it, but it is a FAR sight more sensitive and nurturing than any of Ezzo's material. This book's plan on how to fix bad habits later really helped me be able to gently break the still rocking-to-sleep-every-nap-and-night routine at 1 year old with my eldest which was exhausting me.
1 Comments:
At 8/20/2005 8:31 AM,
texashimalaya said…
TulipGirl - thank you for the link, that is a good post. My favorite part from the post - "my husband and I have decided that we don't stop being parents just because it's dark outside. We don't suddenly have to be less Christlike at bedtime." I also agree with her that infant "independance" or sleep training are not Biblically established principles, by any means.
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