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.

i also used some of the timings to give a good routine ds and I were happy with and he was the true 'contented baby'

I was grateful for being able to read advice saying your baby will need a nap about 9am - sure enough if I put ds down at 9am he would nap, which was a darn sight better for both of us than a screaming tired baby and a clueless mum thinking o, he needs another feed, or whatever

Also, yes he had his nap in his cot for two hours in the middle of the day, possibly inconvenient for my social life but needs of the baby come first - specially when I knew he would not sleep when out and about and I was only storing up agonies for all of us later if I didn't give him his good nap

I never resented it or felt lonely, I liked that quiet time at home in the middle of the day and built other things around it

I guess what I'm saying is, each to their own and some people don't view things as negative that other people DO view in that way!

d'you know, with dd1 i got really vexed with GF and threw the book in the bin (or maybe out the window/fire who knows) but when DD2 came along i wanted it again and bought another...

it is quite helpful to know how much sleep they need and the structure of the naps.

but apart from that i couldn't bear it...

I genuinley don't understand HOW you'd get a baby to sleep when you want it to sleep.

I have 4 children and they've all slept when they want....I'm the one who is put in a roution by them not the other way around.

I swear thats the gods honest truth, I'm not having a dig at any guru. There have a been many many occaisons when I've wanted or needed them to go to sleep but if they didn't want to there was bugger all I could do about it, unless I wanted to stand rocking them in my arms or in the buggy for 90 minutes which defeats the bloody object of me trying to get them to sleep anyway......

buggy
swing chair
car

yes, knackering!

I have to admit to hiding GF's books in Waterstones.

My friend bought it for her baby (due in Sept) and I bit my tongue, but then she read it cover to cover (also bored on mat leave, one assumes!!) and has now binned it!

The only bit of GF's advice i used was when ds was very sleepy and almost asleep i did avoid eye contact with him, as it used to wind him up. We had lovely cuddles the rest of the time and he is a very happy and well adjusted child, it was just that one thing we did. And I would've done it whether I'd heard of it through GF or not - it was common sense for us!

Worked for me, I thought it was brilliant. Saved mine and DS's sanity. So yah boo sucks to you all.

As the OP specifically said she didn't want a debate and just asked for help, I hope she doesn't let the now extremely boring anti-GF sentiment affect her parenting choices.

what a strange thing to be proud of

What, being happy and having a happy baby? Why not be proud?

I love this idea that you wake the baby at 7.

My ds wakes at 6 if we're lucky. I think I have woken him up about twice in his entire life

All these idiots on here deriding GF should try reading The b**y book first and not going by hearsay! At no point does GF ever suggest leaving a hungry baby, totally the opposite and the baby sleeps and wakes following its natural sleep pattern, which the times in the routines follow. ..total ignorance and lack of knowledge from all the GF haters above....pathetic

And you resurrected a 6 year old thread because...?

Because I stumbled across it during an unrelated search for information and because stupidity and ignorance annoys me....

My baby doesn't follow those patterns at all. Is she not "natural" then?

Yes, I have read the book, cover to cover. I would burn it if I could bring myself to. Instead I keep it, because I couldn't bear for some poor new mum to find it in the charity shop and drive herself to PND or mess up her breastfeeding relationship with her newborn because of following the overly-prescriptive, inflexible, outdated advice in the book.

"I have to admit to hiding GF's books in Waterstones."

I read it to see what all the fuss was about.

Someone who goes on and on about ironing will never be friends with me.

'Read the book cover to cover'...surely someone who is so aggressively anti GF does not continue to read the book cover to cover, which takes time. You didn't just put it down after the first few pages having realised it wasn't for you?...very strange. I suspect you mean 'skimmed the book' misinterpreting what you read.