To think there is no way my baby will ever manage a Gina Ford routine?

[Aliveinwanderland]

Someone recommended the Gina Ford book to me. Read it through and just laughed! There is no chance my 9 week old DS would manage that routine!

I am wanting to get him a little more structure after Christmas but according to Gina Ford he should be sleeping through from 10:30-7am by now. DS goes no longer than 3 hours between feeds and only feeds for 5-10 mins at a time. Gina says I should be doing 20 minutes on one breast and then 10 minutes on another- how on earth is someone suppose to force a baby take this much?

Gina Ford has gone back on the bookshelf never to be read again. But if anyone has any sensible advice about how to promote longer sleeping at night, or a good day time routine then please share!

It always amazes me how some people think being snide to anyone who is struggling with any aspect of parenting will make said struggling parent "better ", that is, more like them.

Or snide to those who make progress along a path that doesn't match their own idea of how to do things.
Op, if GF ideas don't work for you then that's fine. Hope all goes well and you get great support.

The classes we do are at 12:15 and 3:30.

I've been trying with the nap times but not very successfully. He won't stay asleep for longer than 30 minutes and it can take up to an hour to get him to go down for the nap.

It's just taken 2 hours to get him to sleep following our bedtime routine. A week ago he would go down at night no problem but something seems to have changed and he now needs rocking to sleep again.

If he's taking an hour to go down for a nap doesn't that mean he's not that tired? Mine used to nap for about 45mins-hour mostly until they were down to one nap a day when it could be longer!

I was lucky mine would feed to sleep. Not sure what I'd have done if not!

My DS's feed for 5-10 mins. Some do. DD fed for 45 mins.
Had Gina Ford book with eldest DC - made me feel incompetent as was so difficult to follow. Just go with the flow - it all falls into place when they wean.

I've got Babysense Secret which is a DK book I've found quite useful for my 6 week old. I don't really put much stock in parenting guides but lots of the guidance about colic and reasons she might be crying reassured me. I struggled in the first few weeks with what to try once she was dry and fed but still crying! I feel like I'm slowly getting to grips with everything now. I plan to try some sort of routine at about 4 months but in the meantime I just give her lots of cuddles!

alive some people find a late morning nap works for them. Say 10-11? That might work for the class you want to do. Or work out what time works for your LO and then make that your routine. Then find class or social to fit round that.
rain it's not snide to say something has worked well. It's no way a criticism of anyone. Simply stating facts. Not everyone wants to clock watch and live to a timetable every day. I teach so have to live like that anyway so it suited me. I think OP was genuinely wondering if it was possible and a few people have come on to say GF routine has been successful for them. It doesn't mean they are saying what other people do is wrong. Just different. Life would be boring if we all did the same thing.

Holidays, it's the anti "success with Gf suggestions" that I find snide. There are plenty on here who think GF ideas can't possibly work, are cruel (ffs) and illogical.
My experience of NHS post natal care was dreadful especially when my health started to suffer. Without GF suggestions I would have gone under. They generally worked with tweaks to accommodate my particular situation.

I followed GF with both my (breastfed) babies and it worked really well for us. Every baby is different and what works for some doesn't work for others.
I really struggled with my first and the midwives were just useless. I needed someone to tell me what to do with this tiny human so I started everyday at 7am and tried to follow the routine. Saved my sanity and both my children don't seem to have suffered any adverse effects.

i love routine. i crave routine. i desperately wanted DD to follow one.

sadly she never, ever would. she didn't nap until she was 6 months old.

I'd start each day thinking "TODAY IS THE DAY I WILL CRACK A ROUTINE" and by lunchtime would be crying into the sink feeling like a failure with my wide awake baby next to me.

not all babies are going to fall into a routine easily.

rain sorry I misunderstood what you meant. I get tired of snide remarks about people who have managed to get kids into a routine and are getting sleep. Everyone seems to assume that the babies are being left to cry and have to wait for their food. I would never criticize someone who wanted to do their own thing.

Thanks, holidays, I'm fed up of the myths and general misunderstandings. As you say, whatever works is fine.

For me as the Gina routine is more or less the same as the nicu routine it made sense to keep following it after a month in nicu