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Just Another Kid
Carol Vorderman's Detox for Life: The 28 Day Detox Diet and Beyond
Strength Training Anatomy
The Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth
Overcoming Depression
Atkins Made Easy: The First 2 Weeks
Overcoming Low Self-esteem: Self-help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques (Self-help S.)
The Step Counter Diet
Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different - And How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-balanced Men
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star
Contented Little Baby Book of Weaning: Your One-Stop Guide to Contented Feeding
From Birth to Five Years: Children's Developmental Progress
Treat Your Own Back
Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Life
Running Made Easy
"Slimming World" Free Foods: Guilt-free Food Whenever You're Hungry
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: How to Get What You Want in Your Relationships
The GI Guide: Understanding the Glycaemic Index, Healthy Eating, Lifestyle and Shopping
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
Toddler Taming: A Parent's Guide to the First Four Years
PCOS Diet Book: How You Can Use the Nutritional Approach to Deal with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently (Penguin Health Care & Fitness)
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Personal Development)
Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression

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Great advice even without the exact timing!
More bad advice from a radical viewpoint
Get control of your day!
Gina is an angel
Great Stuff!!

From Contented Baby to Confident Child
Gina Ford
Manufacturer: Vermilion
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0091875234

Customer Reviews:

Great advice even without the exact timing!.......2006-09-01

Although I do not follow her advice to the letter in terms of timing (ie sometimes the nap is 30 minutes this way or that), I do keep to the food schedule. Our little one does rise at 7am on most days. If she does not, I don't wake her up, but it is rare that she sleeps longer than 7.25am. I O+LOVE this book, it has helped make everything so easy,a nd I get to take a nap or work when baby naps!

Just as the first book, this book is extremely helpful with general advice on the care of the child. Things like this
- making sure baby eats regularly and what types of food.
- Making sure baby sleeps enough and how much, how often and when.
- How to put baby to sleep without difficulty
- Tips on everything from clothing to making sure the house is child safe
- TROUBLESHOOTING sections are the best!!!

This book has chapters that describe why a baby might have regressed into waking in the night after sleeping through for months. Chapters about unexplained fussyness, refusal of food, "seperation anxiety" and "colic" - which seems ot be a myth of undiagnosed conditions/overtired overstimulated babies.

It is excellent on sleep issues and food issues in general terms.

All I can say is, that friends of ours have to walk for ½ hour with the stroller for their kids to fall asleep and have a nap in the afternoon if they are lucky. Their kids wake up at the first stream of sunlight at 5am.

Our baby naps like clockwork alone in her dark nursery, so that we can rest or work or do whatever we please. She has slept through the night solidly for 12 hours at a time from 4 months onwards (and sometimes before that) and is always happy (7pm - 7am). Most babies are cranky because they are either hungry, overtired or bored and we always know which one it is. Our baby also does not use a dummy or a security blanket and hardly ever cries more than a few minutes. She plays happily alone and enjoys attention in spurts, before occupying herself again. I HIGHLY recommend this book, best of all, the chapters are short and concise, it is small and handy. Just don't take her schedules to the letter - if it's 5 minutes later - who cares - it's life. The sleep advice is worth it's weight in gold (ie dark nursery) and what you can't use, discard, just like everything.

More bad advice from a radical viewpoint.......2006-08-15

Yipes! I found this book downright frightening. Avoid!

Get control of your day!.......2006-06-14

I had no idea when my baby was born how long to let him sleep or how much he needed. I had no idea either if I should hold him for a certain length of time or when to put him to bed. We had a rough couple of weeks and then I discovered that I had bought this book and had saved it. We got onto a routine and *poof* my baby was happy and liked the predictable day he knew he would have with the schedule. It also allowed me to have nap or productive times during the day. We have had to modify a bit, but sticking to the schedule for the most part has been such a blessing. He goes down to sleep without a fight and I have been thrilled with the results of this book! This has also helped me so much with feeding information and other general baby questions I have had. Gina has answered a lot of specific questions that I had as a first time mom.

Gina is an angel.......2004-12-19

I had no idea of how to parent once I had my first child. He was a real trial--very fussy and he cried a lot. Being a new mother, I was a wreck and exhausted. I had no idea of what kind of a schedule would work. I had read MANY books and was still lost. Out of desperation one rainy day a friend suggested Gina's book and I went right out to get it. I devoured it and tried her methods. THEY WORKED!! I did not stick to the schedule in a rigid way, but followed it as closely as possible and had amazing results. My son is a happy 21 month old today and sleeps through the night. The key is REGULAR ROUTINE... they need to know what to expect. Thanks Gina, you saved my sanity.

Great Stuff!!.......2003-11-26

I couldn't disagree more with the first customer review of this book. Not only would I highly recommend Gina's Contented Little Baby book, but this one as well. As a result of following her advice my baby girl has slept through the night since she was 8 weeks old, she is also one of the most contented babies I know (it's something that a lot of people comment on about her). She knows exactly when to expect food (in turn I know when to get it prepared by) and sleep - and as a result I have never had to resort to controlled crying. The only things my child has to worry about is how much playing she can cram into one day and how many cuddles!! Gina is a star, without her my first baby experience would have been far more arduous. I couldn't recommend her more. Everyone I know how has tried out her theories has been been overwhelmed by just how accurate she is.

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