A review by deblaroche
On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep by Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam

3.0

I am not a parent yet, but my understanding is that all of these parenting books are great in theory, but ultimately, you've got to do what works for your family and your kid. That said, as a planner, I love the Baby Wise premise that babies who have routines right from the start begin to understand the world as a safe, predictable place and that they can sleep knowing they will be fed & nurtured when they wake up.

So, I must say I really enjoyed this book and the model it presents, but then, I Wikipedia'd it because someone said how controversial it was, and wow, does it have a storied and tumultuous past. The edition I read didn't feel controversial, dogmatic, or authoritarian, but apparently, past renditions of this book were extremely so. I'm not down with all that, but still, the version I read was much more middle-of-the-road, so that's from whence my favorable opinion comes.