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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AAP has warned against Babywise so please throw that book in the trash.

Plenty of other experts do warn against nursing to sleep, that's not unreasonable.  But find a better book.[/quote]

Baby Wise is the ONLY philosophy the American Association of Pediatrics ever condemned.  Newborns have starved to death on this “plan”.  I never heard of it until we were interviewing nannies and our nanny said it was the only philosophy she absolutely would not follow.  [/quote]

I never read baby wise but did taking Cara babies and one of the things I liked about E-A-S is that our feedings always seemed to match up with the recommendations kind of naturally. I have good supply so of course everyone has a different journey. In the beginning it was helpful to be trying to keep the baby awake during feedings - I think she usually got full. But the rhythm of E-A-S worked for us to get the right number of naps and feedings until about 4-5 months, when the wake windows got long enough that feedings every 2-3 hours kind of diverged from naps. But by then we were already in great shape with regard to sleeping.

I do think it means you put in more work in the early weeks getting the baby to sleep, but A) everyone does no matter what and B) you can really lean on the 5Ss in that time. Plus you get more practice because you’re almost never trying to transfer the sleeping baby (I did do a fair amount of “finishing” naps on my chest, but started the vast majority in the crib or bassinet. Anecdotally, my friends who nurse before sleeping end up holding for a lot more naps since they often start that way).
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