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Syd 
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Posted: 07 June 2006 at 4:17pm |
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Has anyone here tried going by the routines in Gina Ford's contented baby book? One of my friends has recommended it as she has about 5 freinds with babies who have followed it and all their babies sleep through the night for 12 hours (sounds great to me!!) Has anyone elase tried it and how was it? Thanks ladies!
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nikkitheknitter
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Posted: 07 June 2006 at 5:43pm |
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Do you know what it involves??? I don't know anything about it but would like to know more.
I loosely went by the Babywise routine. (Well actually just the 3 hourly feeding and made the rest up myself!!)
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Posted: 07 June 2006 at 7:05pm |
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I made up my own routine and since hes been on it he is such a different baby and I'm much happier too cos I know what to do next. this is ours:
9 up feed get dressed play
10 30 11ish to bed when he shows tired signs
12 up for feed then solids then change play
1 30 2 ish to bed when he shows tired signs
3 up for feed change and play
4 30 5ish to bed when tired
6 up for feed solids play bath feed
8 830ish to bed when tired
He wakes a couple of times at night just to be tucked in and give him his dummy but he is getting better and has slept thru a couple of times. He goes straight to sleep for his day sleeps and is so much happier. Before this he wud sleep for 4 hours at a time at night and want a feed at some point thru the night and barely slept during the day.
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Posted: 07 June 2006 at 8:05pm |
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I am pretty sure Aimee uses it - I don't know much about it but Arna slept thru the night at 4 weeks and was a proper all night sleeper from 6 weeks. Think that was sheer luck as I had no routine WHATSOEVER!!
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Posted: 08 June 2006 at 12:07pm |
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Its just about establishing routines that are suitable for their age and development in order to help become contented! i think it also goes into how to set up your nursery and what baby equiptment you might need. My friend is going to use it as all her friends swear by it, their babies have sleep from 7pm to 7am form about 6 weeks. I have another firnd here with the book but she sai the routines are too rigid? I think I might try it but I haven't got a copy of the book yet. Apparently they are sold out here in NZ and can't seem to find it on trade me either. the web address is
http://www.contentedbaby.com/
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Posted: 08 June 2006 at 7:19pm |
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Hiya
I've never read the book, but have heard people talk about it a lot, along the same lines as Babywise etc.
From my point of view, either you're a routine person (like babywise, Gina Ford type) - about every 3 hrs - or your a demand feeder person (feed baby whenever you think they need it - 1/2 hr to 4 hrly)
I think Gina Ford's book is fairly rigid, but that doesn't mean you need to follow it rigidly - IYKWIM!
Personally, I'm a routine person, esp with twins, and I fed them about 3 hourly in the day and 4 hrly (?)at night, and stretched out their night feeds until they didn't need any at 3 months. My eldest was the same, & slept through at 2 months.
I read 3 baby books that my midwife recommended when I was preg (sorry, forgotten names, except one was a La Lache League one) from both ends of the spectrum, so I was open minded when DS#1 was born (thought I was going to be demand feeder more!), and it turned out that I liked routine feeding better.
Rosie
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Posted: 08 June 2006 at 8:21pm |
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Yeah, I'm with you Rosie, take what you want from the routine books but often following them to the letter of the law won't work for you or baby.
A friend's friend has just had a babe and was told at the start to feed 4 hourly, which she did down to the minute, and her midwife turned up two weeks later and reprimanded her because her baby wasn't gaining weight and was obviously hungry then told her to make sure she fed 2 hourly for 40 minutes (as well as telling her that if the babe wasn't getting enough milk then his brain wouldn't develop - new paranoid mother takes that to mean that her babe is brain damaged!). Again taken literally and the baby and mama both ended up in a mess. To be honest, I don't think it was brilliant advice in the first place (4 hourly for a newborn?!?!) and worse when applied strictly. Luckily now the mother has realised that she just needs to go with the flow and stop listening to her very unhelpful old school midwife.
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Posted: 09 June 2006 at 9:04am |
I did Gina Ford - cannot rave about it enough!  My sister got me onto it. THe first two nights we had Hannah home I was up every couple of hours and then I thought bugger this I'm going to try this routine and she was in it within a couple of days, it was so easy. THen she was only up once or twice in the night, then was sleeping 12 hours from 10 weeks and has done ever since. And she has always been a very happy content baby.
Some people reckon she is too restrictive but having a newborn is restrictive anyway! I loved being able to know when Han was going to be asleep and plan outings around that. I think having no routine would be harder...
Syd, are you in Palmy? You can borrow my book if you want cos I hardly ever look at it now, but it used to be my bible!
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Posted: 10 June 2006 at 8:21pm |
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I only read Babywise and found it really good....in part the structure but what I really got out of it was to communicate with your baby, tell them what you are doing etc instead of just doing it. For example, letting them know when you're taking the bib off. I guess it was treating them with respect and a nice way to communicate with them.
When baby no 2 came along I re-read Babywise but because you have to fit both children around each others routine I decided to go with the flow and it is so far working well
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Posted: 10 June 2006 at 9:46pm |
I have also heard rave reviews about it from friends and intend to give it a go. I looked at it in Whitcoulls other day. It has other useful things like setting up nursery, things you need etc as well as just the routines.
My friends who used it all said that they only loosely stuck to it and didn't let themselves get stressed if the routine didn't work. I thought that sounded like good advice. 
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