On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep

Introducing Chelsea and Marisa Two fictional characters will appear throughout this book. They are Chelsea and ...

Chapter One ...

Your Baby Needs a Family With a baby in your future, everyone seems to state the obvious: “Life as ...

joint role as husband and wife. The husband-wife team is the model upon which much of this material ...

be a good mom or dad, all you need is to continue as before. That’s it. But don’t kid yourself, this ...

family relationships at risk. Rather than welcoming children to the family, children are treated as the cen ...

This leaves Marisa with an endless string of frustrating circumstances shaping her life. Across town, Chelsea’s ...

considerable lack of friendship with their own parents. However, reducing the parental role to th ...

Date your spouse. If you had a weekly date night with your spouse before the baby, get back in the ...

place your child at its center. Instead, build that team spirit. When parents plan for family ...

Chapter Two ...

Feeding Philosophies Demand-feeding. Hyperscheduling. Cry feeding. Breast-feeding and bottle. Feeding baby sh ...

hungry, having pre-established guidelines for babies’ hunger patterns. A mother shaped her baby’s hunger cycles to ma ...

neuroses by discovering, through psychoanalysis, significant traumatic experiences in early childhood. Originally, th ...

a healthy mix of structure with flexibility. This was a radical idea in the 1950s and a much needed ...

babies are born with lingering womb attachments and that birth only changes the way the attachment ...

very premise. Does the birthing process really create psychologically fragile children? Does the sta ...

element for all aspects of infant care—parental assessment (PA), an acquired confidence to think, eval ...

Conflict Between the Variable and Constant (^) The greatest tension with feeding philosophies centers on which ...

Clock + Nothing = Feeding Time Weakness in practice: Feeding based on fixed times ignores legitimate h ...