Ezzo Parenting : I Wish I Knew This From The Beginning!

» Goldenmom - I Wish I Knew This From The Beginning!

Thank you for your great article! I wish I had read it and others like it from the beginning. I was sucked in by the promise of a good night's sleep and followed the advice of Babywise (minus the 'letting him cry himself to sleep' advice, for the most part) for the first few weeks and regret it! My son is quite large for his age (before he was six months, he was wearing twelve-month clothes), so he didn't go hungry, but he did have colic, and the Ezzo advice made me doubt my maternal instincts, which made a difficult situation almost unbearable! Once I realized that the advice was ridiculous, and did what came naturally, things got much easier, but you can only imagine how duped I felt when I read some of these articles on Ezzo and his agenda. I realized from the beginning his advice didn't have references to solid research, but I guess the lack of sleep made me overlook it. Anyway, this is a very long message to let you know that I appreciate the article. Any other mothers out there follow this advice? Did it work for you?

-- posted by Goldenmom