EA.S.Y routine?? does it work?

[babylayla]

Hi,

Has anyone tried or currently follow the E.A.S.Y routine method? What are your thoughts and how does it/has it worked for you?

My DD is 3mo and i have started reading the book and want to trying to follow this idea. DD is BF and although can fall asleep with a dummy sometimes and get her off to sleep for naps during the day, sometimes she doesnt want to settle, takes me ages then she starts to get upset and cry, she is then hard to calm back down without the boob :( any ideas would be great aswell.

Thanks x

I tried it for a while with 2nd DD. Didn't work, as she wasn't ever hungry when she immediately woke and wouldn't feed then, no matter how long it had been since she last ate.

I think it's a great theory, and might work for some babies. However, all babies are different (they're human, after all). Not all human beings like eating as soon as they wake up. If he/she doesn't.. well, you need to make it work for you and her by adapting things.

I thought there was lots of good ideas in there, especially about jiggling/walking babies to sleep, entertaining them constantly, etc. I learnt stuff from it, but E.A.S.Y. didn't work at all for DD. We just fed her about 1/2 hr/1 hr after she woke, seemed to work.

If she's trying to feed to get to sleep, could be that getting someone else to settle her sometimes might work? Or wait til she's really tired before putting her in bed, and eliminate all other possibilities. Check on her every few minutes (but with minimal lively interaction) til she realises she's safe and it's sleep time now.

Well, that's what I'd do anyway. Whatever you do, it has to work for you as well as her!

Worked brilliantly for us. Gave us structure without clock watching.

Best advice I was ever given (by sil) was to read a variety of parenting books and then pick the one that fits with the type of parent you want to be. Easy will only work if it fits with the way you want to parent your lo.

I loved it and it really worked for us!
To be fair though I do reckon I was very lucky and dd seemed to have read the book!

I started using it early and of course the whole "activity" time can be mere minutes when they're very young so I had to watch for the first sign of tiredness.
Otherwise she was overtired and a screaming banshee when going down.

Give it a go! but ignore any and all advice about breastfeeding that's in the book, I found it very outdated in that department.

And for the big advantage was that when the dc were tired and ready for sleep I would know for sure (mostly) that they were not hungry as well.

Agree that the bf advice is odd in places.

Thanks everyone!

I have read lots of books and I like the idea of the structure without the clock.. the whole clock watching is def not for me and DD. nooooooo!

I will give it a go.. always nice to here other peoples points of view.. thanks :)

And just remember...

If it doesn't work, this doesn't mean that you are "doing it wrong".

Good luck. Hope it works as well as it did for my dss.

we did EASY from 5 weeks, then ds fell out of it in the daytime from 3 months (started feeding every 2 hours but still napping every 3 hours) and from 4 months fell out of the nightime routine (now wakes every hour and a half )

but while it worked, it was brilliant. you just need to be flexible enough for when dc wants to do something different and not follow the routine!

think its good for young babies but I found it tricky as my dd was a very sleepy baby and so I found I was feeding her every 2 hours when really she wasn't hungry, think some of the general advice on routines,different crys etc was helpful. I ended up being more of a gina ford kinda girl in the end anyway