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The New Contented Little Baby Book: The Secret to Calm and Confident Parenting by: Gina Ford List Price: £9.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £6.44 You Save: £3.55 (36%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780091912697 ISBN: 0091912695 Label: Vermilion Manufacturer: Vermilion Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: April 06, 2006 Publisher: Vermilion Studio: Vermilion Sales Rank: 85 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: 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 The Telegraph: ‘This book could be your salvation!' You Magazine (Mail on Sunday): `Gina Ford is the Delia Smith of parenting...' Kate Winslet: "an absolute godsend" Book Description: The prospect of bringing a tiny baby home for the first time is daunting. Horror stories of sleep-starved nights, inconsolable crying and feeding on demand can make any proud parent fearful of the future. Maternity nurses have long been used as live-in babycare tutors who will settle your baby as well as boost your confidence; this book promises to do the same and for a fraction of the price! Gina Ford uses her years of experience in caring for hundreds of different babies to produce a plan that will ensure your baby is happy and contented. She believes that simple routines can avoid months of sleepless nights, colic and feeding difficulties that many people believe are a normal part of parenting. Her babies feed regularly and well, never have colic and sleep through the night at six to eight weeks. Practical and calm and using lots of parent-friendly schedules and time-plans, The Contented Little Baby Book has already worked for hundreds of mothers and babies all! ! over the world. Now it can work for you. Synopsis: This book could be your salvation! A quote from the "Daily Telegraph", but this cry could equally have come from the thousands of mothers who have put Gina Ford's kind but firm routines into practice and put some calm back into their lives. Sleep-starved nights, inconsolable crying, feeding on demand - stories that make the prospect of bringing a tiny baby home for the first time daunting for any proud new parent. Fully updated and with helpful input from clients, readers and mothers who simply love her routines, "The New Contented Little Baby Book" gives reassuring and practical advice to new parents that works from one of the UK's most respected and most talked about maternity nurses. Her secret is simple and amazing - a strategy developed through years of research and experience. When put into practice, 'Gina babies': sleep through the night from an early age; feed regularly and well from either breast or bottle; and are less likely to suffer from colic. And parents are calm and contented too! From the Publisher: Expanded new edition of the bestselling guide for new parents Book Description: ‘This book could be your salvation!’A quote from the Daily Telegraph, but this cry could equally have come from the thousands of mothers who have put Gina Ford’s kind but firm routines into practice and put some calm back into their lives. Sleep-starved nights, inconsolable crying, feeding on demand – stories that make the prospect of bringing a tiny baby home for the first time daunting for any proud new parent. Fully updated and with helpful input from clients, readers and mothers who simply love her routines, The New Contented Little Baby Book gives reassuring and practical advice to new parents that works from one of the UK’s most respected and most talked about maternity nurses. Her secret is simple and amazing – a strategy developed through years of research and experience. When put into practice, babies: Sleep through the night from an early age Feed regularly and well from either breast or bottle Are less likely to suffer from colic And parents get to sleep too! About the Author: Gina Ford: Gina Ford has over twenty years' experience of looking after babies and young children. She has worked as a maternity nurse all over the world for all kinds of people, from lawyers and bankers to newspaper editors, pop stars and other high-profile media personalities. She now runs a consultancy service for parents. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - A guidebookI 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. Rating:  - Every child is differentwas given this book when my first son was about a month old, person who gave it to me raved about how fantastic it was, read it expecting very big things and thought some of the information was very good and some not so good. As every child is not exactly the same, this will work well for some and not so well for others, but anything is worth trying once. Rating:  - Book needs a warning I would definitely stay clear of this book if you want to actually enjoy your baby and not have to take the poor child to a shrink later in life due to traumatised baby-hood. This book provides some sort of army regime for your toddler whereby there is no space for listening to the baby's personal needs and behaviours and probably provides more stress and trauma for the baby than anything else. I can understand people who have difficult babies may resort to this book, but there are other ways around this. I picked up the book the other day to see what Gina mentions with regard to starting with solids (which takes place at 6 months usually) and when I saw she recommended toast with jam for breakfast I couldn't believe it (how do they eat toast ... Read More: Rating:  - Totally Amazing!I bought this book when my son was 2 weeks old and started him on the routines when he was about 1 month old and I was a bit worried that it wouldn't be for me as I like to rely on my instinct and go with the flow. Howerver, I didn't find the routines restrictive at all and the idea behind the baby getting most of their milk during the day time hours seemed to make total sense. My son was 6 weeks premature and I was told that he would take about 6 months to settle down into any kind of routine. He slept through the night 7 til 7 at 2 months. Whenever my son went "off plan" for whatever reason, ie. dropping nap times or not sleeping properly, Gina had a probable reason and a plan to overcome it. I have to say - she was right every time ... Read More: Rating: - Love it or hate itI found this book to be badly written and quite difficult to follow. The same points could be communicated using half as much paper and the author seems to spend an awful lot of time blowing her own trumpet. Don't let this put you off though, the underlying theory of the book is a good one but it is not presented simply. I perservered and found that by referring back to certain parts it made a little more sense. I almost wore myself to a frazzle trying to implement the routines exactly as laid out in the book when I got straight out of hospital and in the end I adjusted and simplifed the routines a little, wrote them on the noticeboard (so my husband knew what was going on!) and everything just clicked. My little boy has almost ... Read More: |
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