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

Chapter Six ...

Establishing Your Baby’s Routine Day one. There’s no better time to begin thinking about your baby’s r ...

Your Lifestyle and Your Baby Rod and Colleen are a disciplined couple. They are neat, orderly, precise, and sys ...

in between, flexibility is basic to your success. But what is flexibility? Many times we hear new mom ...

four), governing the clock and feeding times? During the first week to ten days of your baby’s life work ...

Understand how to calculate time between feedings. As previously mentioned in chapter 4, the time between feed ...

activities that encourages nighttime sleep. Here again is the exception. During the late evening and ...

The stabilization phase is usually completed by the eight week. By this time, most babies are sleeping ...

her nap. You know that she just had a full feeding so you begin to wonder if the problem is sleep relat ...

adjust the rest of the baby’s morning schedule so that by early afternoon he is back on his daily routin ...

you can get back to basics. There’s your flex! You have been driving for four hours, which is your baby ...

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When a breast-fed baby initially begins sleeping through the night, mom may experience some slight disc ...

supply, we recommend that you do not let your baby sleep longer than nine hours at night during this ...

Weeks Twenty-five through Fifty-two Feeding times continue the same between the ages of six to tw ...

Between weeks twelve and fifteen, most babies go easily to a combination 3- to 4-hour routine and drop t ...

feeding. But, not all babies go by the book. There are some little ones whose internal clocks get “stuck” a ...

Questions for Review What is the first Babywise feeding rule? From the list above, what exception applies ...

Chapter Seven ...

Waketime and Naptime In this chapter we will examine the last two activities in your baby’s routine: waket ...