Natalie told me she had heard that Baby Wise was really great. I read it not long ago and realized I should've read it before Ryann was born. The main focus is to get her on a schedule of feeding/waketime/sleeptime. It's a little backwards from what most people do. How easy is it to nurse a baby to sleep?We seem to be doing pretty well. I'm sticking to the 3 hour schedule to help with lactation and get her to distinguish between day and night. It really makes it easy to know why she is crying. I feed her when she wakes up, change her diaper and usually within an hour after that she gets grumpy. I stick a pacifier in her mouth and she's out within minutes.
Now comes the problem... the book recommends not using any sort of props to put the baby down for a nap. No rocking or nursing to sleep, and certainly no pacifiers to help sleep. The babies need to learn to self soothe. That's why I think it would've been easier to start from the beginning. It's hard to break routine and the pacifier works so well.
One step at a time. I'm really working on the schedule part. Once I think I've got that down, and when the kids are back at their mom's, I'll work on the self soothing. Nobody really wants to listen to her crying herself to sleep :(
