Will wonders never cease?
Last night Isaac slept for 8 hours. EIGHT. From 8pm to 4am. Evidently this new No Cry Sleep Solution book is so good that just having it in the house puts your baby to sleep.
I started reading said book last night, and it now gets a mixed review from me. I fear that this woman is a little militant. She proclaims not to be -- she claims that her book will pander her sleeping solutions to both the breast- and bottle-fed, to crib- and co-sleepers alike. We shall see. But what pricks my ears to attention is how she spends about half a chapter completely dissing the whole cry-it-out method, which has obviously worked for generations upon generations of moms, and continues to work for them today. Now, I did purchase her book because it IS in fact called the "no cry" sleep solution. I did NOT buy it because I have something seriously against people who choose to teach their babies to sleep by having them "cry it out", and I also do NOT require facts from sleep studies obviously skewed against CIO to hurl at people who choose to CIO between insults about their questionable parentage. I simply am one of those moms who is too big of a weenie to listen to her baby cry for more than, say, two seconds at a time.
Also, this woman has freely shared that she and her husband shared their bed with each of their four children as infants. Again, I have nothing against people who co-sleep, especially since I am occasionally one of them, but such people who co-sleep on purpose, and who openly confess these things to complete strangers can, on occasion, be militant. No disrespect meant to moms who choose to co-sleep -- I have just run into several moms who do so who are shocked and appalled that I have my baby sleeping in his "baby cage." They left a funny taste in my mouth, you can imagine. I have serious problems with militant moms. This is because, in my short time as a mom, I have learned that there is not one "right" way to do things, and that motherhood, as most of life, is best approached by arming oneself with a diaperload of knowledge about different approaches to solving problems. Also, one thing I learned from my Girlfriend's Guide to the First Year (a very funny book which I wholeheartedly recommend to anyone who has already popped out their baby. Not to be read BEFORE one pops out one's baby, or one will be scared into staying pregnant by its frankness. Don't be scared away by the mention of that odious talk-show word "girlfriend" on the cover) is that we moms have a hard enough job being moms as it is without having other moms question our parenting choices. Anyway, I will set my tepid receipt of her first chapter or so aside, then, because this lady does promise to show me a variety of tactics to try on my boy to convince him to sleep. I just wish she'd get to the point.
I started reading said book last night, and it now gets a mixed review from me. I fear that this woman is a little militant. She proclaims not to be -- she claims that her book will pander her sleeping solutions to both the breast- and bottle-fed, to crib- and co-sleepers alike. We shall see. But what pricks my ears to attention is how she spends about half a chapter completely dissing the whole cry-it-out method, which has obviously worked for generations upon generations of moms, and continues to work for them today. Now, I did purchase her book because it IS in fact called the "no cry" sleep solution. I did NOT buy it because I have something seriously against people who choose to teach their babies to sleep by having them "cry it out", and I also do NOT require facts from sleep studies obviously skewed against CIO to hurl at people who choose to CIO between insults about their questionable parentage. I simply am one of those moms who is too big of a weenie to listen to her baby cry for more than, say, two seconds at a time.
Also, this woman has freely shared that she and her husband shared their bed with each of their four children as infants. Again, I have nothing against people who co-sleep, especially since I am occasionally one of them, but such people who co-sleep on purpose, and who openly confess these things to complete strangers can, on occasion, be militant. No disrespect meant to moms who choose to co-sleep -- I have just run into several moms who do so who are shocked and appalled that I have my baby sleeping in his "baby cage." They left a funny taste in my mouth, you can imagine. I have serious problems with militant moms. This is because, in my short time as a mom, I have learned that there is not one "right" way to do things, and that motherhood, as most of life, is best approached by arming oneself with a diaperload of knowledge about different approaches to solving problems. Also, one thing I learned from my Girlfriend's Guide to the First Year (a very funny book which I wholeheartedly recommend to anyone who has already popped out their baby. Not to be read BEFORE one pops out one's baby, or one will be scared into staying pregnant by its frankness. Don't be scared away by the mention of that odious talk-show word "girlfriend" on the cover) is that we moms have a hard enough job being moms as it is without having other moms question our parenting choices. Anyway, I will set my tepid receipt of her first chapter or so aside, then, because this lady does promise to show me a variety of tactics to try on my boy to convince him to sleep. I just wish she'd get to the point.
posted by Claire at 8:06 PM
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