Anyone got Gina ford contented baby book to hand?

[girrafey]

Morning.

I do not wish to start a gina ford debate about routine. Each to their own. I personally loosly used it with my dd and it worked great for me and her, and we just adjusted it to our needs.
My ds however due to varying reasons is more of a attachment parenting child, and that suits us aswell as it fits in with how we are now.

However i have misplaced my book and i would be interested in what the routine is for a 8/9 and 9/10 month old.

so if anyone has one to hand and could just loosly give me an idea that would be great.
just want the outlines..
e.g
7am wake. milk
8am breakfast
9am sleep for blah blah......

Many thanks.

hi, why not just go with the flow and do what YOU want to do.
he's your ds.

I wouldn't have one anywhere near me - sorry..

6- 9 months:

Feed times - 7am, 11:45am, 2:30pm, 5pm, 6:30pm
Nap times between 9-9:30/45
12:30 - 2:30pm

9-12 months: Exactly the same as above.

Hi,

6-9 months:

feed times:
7am
11.45
2.30pm
5pm
6.30

max daily sleep 3hrs.

Just dug out my dusty book...

Routine for 6-9 months:

7am feed
9-9.30/45am nap
11.45 feed
12.30-2.30pm nap
2.30 feed
5pm feed
6.30pm sleep

Routine for baby 9-12 months
7am feed
9am-9.45am nap
11.45am feed
12.30-2.30pm nap
2.30pm feed
5pm feed
6.30pm sleep

Ooh hang on, they are practically the same!!

Good luck! (I also followed these routines loosely and they worked fantastically for DD) X

norty MMJ - but true

I am slightly boggled at clockwork routines i have to say

lol mmj.

well done mmj

OH YES - the TOAST LOLOLOL!

why ON EARTH would anyone wake a sleeping baby?

that is just ridiculous beyond belief

and cruel

don't forget "to cream the creases"

I never did follow this book to the letter (e.g. never woke up a sleeping baby, never ate the toast when told to, or let my DD cry in her cot).

I just found the feed & nap times useful as a guide, and they happened to work very well for my DD.

The OP stated that she only ever followed the GF routines loosely with her DD, that she was using attachment parenting with her DS, and "each to their own"

I don't think there is any call for mockery or derision here. It's just unkind when someone has asked for help.

Wow, just read the 6-9mth routine, and thatis roughly what my 7mo ds does, and I have never so much as picked up GF's books, I've never tried to set a routine (apart from a very loose bath & bed one). DS has just settled into that pattern by himself!
I feel validated now (have had so many people say oh you should try and get him into a routine but I am just too lazy and life(and my ML) is too short to waste too much of it letting him CIO.

Are we allowed to talk about gina now?

am not deriding the OP

but the book

i can't take anything seriously which says you should eat a piece of toast at 8.14 am

Agree agreee agree nail polish.
As far the black-out blinds, recently I heard some people followed the Gina routine so rigidly that they had to take the bleedin' blinds on holiday with them - cos baby won;t sleep without them!!

LOL!

actually its not very funny is it

its quite sad

Yes, fair enough, the book is OTT with it's ides of waking up babies and letting them CIO. I totally agree.

But as BouncingTurtle has found, most babies do fall into these feeding/sleeping patterns naturally. As a new mum, I just found it useful to have some sort of a guide telling me what these patterns were going to be. I am one of those people - I like to have a manual!

As I said, I never followed it to the letter. I have never let my DD cry without going straight to her.

If you want to have a dig at the book, and make funny comments etc, then maybe start your own thread. Because even though you say this isn't directed at the OP I think if I was her I would be feeling ridiculed by some of the things said. It's not nice.

And no, I';m not deriding the op- she is entitled to adher to what she wants.
But any mention of Gina on here is bound to get a ribbing!!!