The New Contented Little Baby Book: The Secret to Calm and Confident Parenting

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Mucizevi bir kitap. Pandemi nedeniyle doğum sürecinde ve yeni doğan bebeğimle tamamen yalnız ve tecrübesiz bir anneyken hamilelikte okuduğum bu kitap hayatımı kurtatdı, kolaylaştırdı. Çevremdeki herkes bebeğimle olan iletişimime ve bebeğin düzenine şaşırdı.

While this can seem overwhelmingly mean and Victorian, it is really about knowing when to leave a baby – a raw, new thing, fragile and often sensorily overloaded – some quiet, restful, respectful space.When people ask me how I have had six boys and not be crippled by the sheer exhaustion of it all, I say I’m not tired, because they sleep.

Gina Ford's bestselling The Contented Little Baby Book established Gina as one of the UK's most influential voices in baby and childcare issues. Her groundbreaking routines have been the salvation of hundreds of thousands of parents and her sound advice on weaning and sleep has guaranteed contented little babies in households around the world. And Gina Ford’s routine, which is segmented into reassuring week by week, hour by hour instruction, taught us all how. As for me, after I nailed that sleeping-through-the-night thing at six months (a little later than she said it would happen, but hey ho) I was pregnant again, and then again, and then again and then again. I think Gina Ford's perspective is skewed by the fact that she is a professional who gets called in for children with problems. Therefore, she thinks ALL children will develop problems if they don't follow her routine. I think that's as silly as thinking that every child who eats sweets will develop diabetes. Babies are individuals, and they all have different personalities. Trying to fit them all into one little box is ridiculous. The introduction of solid foods was too early for us in this book. We waited til 6 months to introduce solid foods with our baby. But then we took Gina Ford's advice on the topic, with much success.The book has some immensely helpful info about breastfeeding, such as, "Babies between one week and six weeks usually need at least 30 minutes to reach the hind milk." (p. 53) And "If you change breasts too soon he will end up getting too much fore milk, which is one of the main causes of babies never seeming satisfied and suffering from colic." (p 56) "If he is fed enough during the day he will be much more likely to got to sleep for longer periods between feeds in the night." (p 57) The book also discusses the popular societal trend for bottle-feeding and formula feeding that "became well established in the fifties and sixties..." And this was quite helpful info, since our baby's grandmothers were keen to formula-feed, while my choice was to exclusively breastfeed.