Alison Scott-Wright - have you used her sleep method?

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Met Alison at The Baby Show and wondered if anyone had tried her sleeping plan? If so, how did it go?

My godness, some of the ladies on this forum really need to get out and get a life. Im not a PR campaign for Alison, but a real working mother (im a banker) with a now very healthy and happy 18mth old. I thought you might all benefit from her technique, but obviously you would rather suffer in silence... or rather moan on websites when you are so sleep deprived you cant think straight.
Alison was able to help me relax and learn to spot the signals that my daughter was giving out. The silent reflux was causing my daughter so my discomfort that she was rubbing her heels together violently each time she was breastfeed and her hands and feet would sweat. She would also only feed little and often and had learnt to control the flow of milk so i was only able to pump 2oz at a time (Initially my milk supply was really god). Yes I had PND and I can recognise that now, if I hadnt have go help for Alison I dont know how I would have survived (health vistors and doctors were completely useless).

Wow lots of interesting points from everyone ! I have met ASW at a baby show.She had upset a lady who worked with the SID foundation.Alson advocates reflux babies sleeping on their tummies! So you can imagine the SID lady's distress at hearing this after years of research.She was also upset that Alison was preaching about Reflux when she wasn't a doctor/Peadtrician.
It seems Alsion has really ruffled feathers!
I think Mummys need to listen to their babies ,although I used a routine on my baby from 7 weeks which worked a treat (smile)

I was trying the Baby Whisperer gentle routine for feeding and sleeping, which basically meant feeding my baby whenever she was crying and it was at least 2 hours since her last meal, and doing dream feeds to get her to sleep at least 6 hours at night. It was OK for the first few weeks, but after 3.5 months DD was feeding 5 times at night and 4-5 during the day, and neither one of us was sleeping much. I tried a bunch of things, like feeding more often or longer during the day, but was too exhausted to see that sleep was the problem. Alison's method had my baby go from 5 night-time feeds to none in 2 nights! I realized that when she woke up screaming at night, it wasn't because she was hungry, it was because she couldn't fall back asleep by herself and needed help. From the third night she's been sleeping 10-12.5 hours at night and napping 3-5 hours during the day. I feel like a new person - I can work, not yell at my husband, and the baby seems a lot happier, too. She still cries a bit in the middle of some naps (wakes up after 45 minutes and wants to sleep longer but finds it difficult), but nights are a breeze. And much as I don't like it, I think formula once a day is helping with the reflux -- it is heavier than my milk and seems easier to keep down. Anyway, I'm recommending this book to all my friends because it's worked wonders for us.

i used a hypoallergenic formula with my refluxers but is is correct if you wish to continue breast feeding then all that is required is a life style change. Not easy for all mums, but removing dairy from your own diet is always worth a try first if you can manage it.

It be advised differently to this is very sad.

Agree with L nothing wrong with water but not to replace a feed. Fine do that once the bb on solids and still waking but not at 5 wks crazy. Someone said don't listen to strangers who done have kids ??? That's bit silly she has looked after 100 baby's and seen all sorts of behaviour etc I don't agree with her way but she dose have experience verses a mum with 1 or 2 babies. I don't get why you would want a 5 wk bb to sleep thru they don't wake for ever in the night what's a few month of night feeds, some ppl think babies are robots.

Wow, am very surprised at some of the comments here. I read Alison's book when our DS was 3 weeks old and diagnosed with reflux. According to the schedule in her book at 5 weeks we would definitely still be feeding twice in the night. The way I interpretted her book is that far from forcing baby to reduce feed you are led by them. Her 'schedule' is extremly flexible, effectively it is 5 feeds between 6.00am/8.00am and 7.00pm- based loosely on a three hour schedule and then be led by baby through the night. DS is now 11 weeks and generally sleeps without feeding 7.00pm through to 5.00am-7.00am, so we still occcasinally feed in the night if he wakes at 5.00am. His wake times have been entirely decided by him, but over the weeks we have gradually seen him wake later in the night, moving from two feeds to one and now often sleeping through (I class a 6.00am start as sleeping through). I breast feed (with one formula feed a day at 7pm) and the book covers this by recommending a 'shorter feed at 5.00am to keep the 7.00am feed on track, with the view that at some point baby will drop the 5am feed entirely. Almost all books I have read recommend this kind of top up feed at some point in a babys routine so I wouldn;t see a problem with this - I didn't feel that the book was pushing me down an exclusively formula feeding route. I don't feel as strongly as others on this forum that watering down formula would be so terrible (certainly no way near as bad as doubling up which I have seen some Mums do!). It doesn't seem so dissimilar to the the health visitors advoce to give cool boiled water to couteract the constipation introduced by the gaviscon. But even if people think it is a bad thing to do it is an optional part of her routine and I am surprised that it has so much focus.

I stumbled across this thread when I searched for Alison Scott Wright forum to see if there was any advice from other followers of this routine on how best to get baby to self sooth - am defintiely not a ASW PR person :-)

I didn’t use her sleep method but used her as a last resort for breast feeding / weaning into bottle consultancy service due to medical reasons and she was a complete let down, put my child at risk of dehydration, concealed this and cut her stay short on the basis of a family emergency and left abruptly. Her conduct was unethical and would never recommend her services.