Anyone read: "12 hours of sleep by 12 weeks old"?
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Anonymous
| By Suzie Giordano...did it work? Is it worth reading? |
Anonymous
| Yes. Worthless. |
Anonymous
| LOL. Thanks. |
Anonymous
| my friend swears by it - she did it with her first and it apparently worked |
Anonymous
| No... but the title makes me laugh. |
Anonymous
| tried it, didn't work. eating every 4 hours for an 8 week old doesn't sound realistic -- or healthy. my 12 week is just now getting to this point. |
Anonymous
| Oh gosh. I knew a mom who was following this book. She was trying to get her 8 week old to drink 8 ounce bottles on a schedule. She was so flustered because the baby didn't want to drink that big of a bottle. Ugh, just seemed awful to me. |
Anonymous
| I actually found the book helpful when my kid was older -- like 5 months. It helped me transition from a 2-3hr feeding schedule to a 4. I thought the premise was gimmicky (12 hrs by 12 weeks), but there are some good tidbits in there. |
Anonymous
| OMG. My 9-week-old would puke every time if I tried to get him to eat more than 4-5 oz at a sitting. |
Anonymous
| Bunk. I'm not saying there aren't some babies who can go 12 hours without food at 12 weeks, but it's certainly not the norm. Mine refused bottles bigger than 4 oz until 6 mos (would just spit up anything more). Also, being a "good sleeper" at 12 weeks doesn't keep away the 4 mo sleep regression. |
Anonymous
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Some babies will naturally sleep 12 hours at 12 weeks, but most don't.
Mine slept 10-11 hours and here's our secret: She was one of those babies who just did it on her own. We did the normal stuff, like make sure she got enough naps in during the day, and prioritized timely naps and bedtime, but LOTS of people do that and don't have a baby that sleeps for such long stretches. I also didn't try to enforce any kind of a feeding schedule, though she cluster fed at various points throughout the day, sometims drinking 2-3 ounces, then a couple more ounces a half hour later. I really think that trying to force a feeding schedule on her would have just made things worse. I know someone who did babywise, whose baby didn't sleep through the night for a really long time...she had the poor kid on a four hour schedule (breastfed) - I thought, how on earth do you expect her to get through the night on a full stomach if you won't feed her during the day? Ugh. |
Anonymous
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Yep, we fed constantly and on cue durign the day, and he tanked up pretty well all day, so in those first few weeks he really was sleeping long long stretches - like 7 hours at night. No books, just following his cues.
Forcing a newborn to go 4 hours between feeds is ridiculous and will probably lead to FTT, which is what happens with many Babywise babes, too. It's abusive. |
Anonymous
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Just curious, what's FTT?
Read the book and didn't feel it was right for my baby... she never drank more than 4-5 oz at a time, even at 6-10 months. She did sleep well though - no night feedings after 4 months and only one from 2-4. |
Anonymous
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FTT = Failure to Thrive
Child is not gaining weight/growing as one would expect for his/her age as compared to other children |
Anonymous
| FFT--failure to thrive |