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The Contented Little Baby Book | 
 enlarge | Author: Gina Ford
Publisher: Vermilion
Category: Book
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Rating:  614 reviews
Sales Rank: 63157
Media: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 0091869145
EAN: 9780091869144
ASIN: 0091869145
Publication Date: July 1, 1999
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Amazon.co.uk Review
If you are still struggling to get your newborn to sleep through the night, still getting up throughout the night to feed the little one, or perhaps you are feeling as if no end is in sight, you need to read Gina Ford's The Contented Little Baby Book. It may be the only thing you need to bring peace back into your frazzled existence with your tiny baby, or babies. After all, this book promises to teach parents tried and tested methods to get their baby to sleep through the night by the time they are 10 weeks old. For parents who are craving their first night of unbroken sleep, Ford's book may be the answer. Ford's methods conjure up the image of a strict and loving old nanny from yesteryear. Her techniques go against the grain of many currently popular parenting philosophies. For example, Ford, an experienced maternity nurse, is against demand feeding, believes in the necessity of waking a sleeping baby in order to establish a daily routine. Her philosophy may not be the norm today, but Ford is confident of her methods based on years of experience handling hundreds of babies. Providing an hour-by-hour, week-by-week guide on how to get a new baby into a routine, the book includes feeding and sleeping schedules based on a baby's age. The Contented Little Baby Book provides so much information that it may be necessary to keep this paperback book handy for reference should you employ Ford's techniques. Experienced parents may not benefit from Ford's methods, but first-time parents may learn a lot from her ideas, and for the discerning reader of parenting books, this one is a must have. For the reader who would like to weigh other parenting methods before adopting Ford's techniques, the following books may be of interest: The Baby Book, by William Sears, M.D. and Martha Sears, R.N.; What to Expect in the first year, by Eisenberg, Murkoff and Hathaway; and Your Baby and Child, by Penelope Leach. --Abbe Jacobson
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 A childcare book by a childless spinster. Excellent! September 29, 2008
Compulsive Reader (New York, New York)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Gina Ford's understanding of the neurobiological impact of her "teachings" is almost as good as my understanding of the trade cycle. I am quite certain that all babies submitted to her Stalinist regime stop crying. Wouldn't you if noone ever came to comfort you? But what are such children being taught about their parents' ability to "hold" them emotionally? And about emotion in general?
DO NOT READ THIS BOOK September 26, 2008
Jen (Staffs, UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I strongly recommend that you do NOT read this book unless you only wanted to read it to criticise it.
Enough to push a sleep deprived and anxious new mother over the edge! September 12, 2008
Mrs. L. Grantham (UK)
I bought this book with good intentions when I discovered I was pregnant with my first child. I recall reading it before my son was born and thought it had some invaluable pieces of advice with regards to a potential sleep routine. However, my son arrived and decided he was not going to sleep, as and when I (or Gina Ford) dictated to him. This book is so riged and regimented, and I so tired, anxious and nervous that I found myself becoming completely neurotic and determined to force a routine onto a 4-week old baby, that quite simply he wasn't ready or prepared to accept. I worringly became obsessed by no 'chinks' of light seeping through the curtains that i placed blankets over the windows and left them there for weeks!! I sat inside the house and became totally focused on getting my son to sleep for 30-45mins at 9.15am that the joys of being a first time mother were passing me by! This book may appeal to many, for a whole host of different reasons, but to those of you of a similar disposition to myself (twitchy and anxious) then it really is enough to push you over the edge when the rigid routine is not achieved. Each baby is unique with his or her own individual needs and this is something that Miss. Ford fails to acknowledge or advise upon in her much acclaimed book. Once I was feeling less anxious I threw this book into the bin, never to be looked at by me again!
 Borrow a bit here and there September 8, 2008
Flappy Touchy Baby Books
Like other readers I read this while pregnant and decided it wasn't for me, although I had seen it work wonders for other babies. When my daughter was two months old she wasn't gaining weight and I needed to squeeze more feeds in, so I read the book again and started following it. Not religiously though, just the bits I wanted to really! The one thing I completely agree with is the need for a good bedtime routine. If you disagree with everything else (which some folk'll find quite easy) do this. You will find it really hard with an older baby if you don't. Every baby is different (which is one of the most annoying things you'll constantly hear if your a new parent, which doesn't help anything!) and the advice won't work for everyone.
A guidebook August 31, 2008
The Village Green Preservation Society (Heavenly Devon)
I read a number of books on bringing up baby - but I didn't approach any of them as 'this is what you must do'. Gina provides some good advice and I'm sure that her routines have worked for plenty of people. For that reason her book is useful. Every baby is different - all I wanted was a book to provide reassurance when I felt out of my depth and Gina Ford does that. Would an alternative baby guide? Probably yes, but that doesn't detract from confidence I derived as a first time Mum from this book.
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