On Becoming Wise to Ezzo's Information

Ezzo's book, Babywise, was suggested to me through some really great friends at church.  They had a picture perfect daughter who napped well, seemed to go with the flow, and seemed pretty independent.  I praised my friends for such great parenting and they told me to read this book and apply it as soon as possible.

When we were pregnant, we read this book over and over.  I was thrilled my husband agreed to go through with this type of parenting.

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Follow Jesus, Not Methods

I read Babywise while pregnant with my first son.  At that time, I was a proud, over-achieving, controlling, perfectionist of a mother who was thrilled that I had stumbled upon the "perfect" and "godly" parenting method.  I felt that by having control over my baby's schedule, I was setting them up for a solid relationship with Jesus Christ because they would naturally bow to authority.

Everything went according to plan with my son.  He was on the schedule and sleeping through the night at nine weeks.  I glowed beneath the array of praise we received for our contented child.  I was constantly asked for advice from other new moms and I encouraged them to do just as I had done.

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Our un-Wise Baby Experience

Encouragement for Christian Parents

Before having our first baby, I thought I had the whole ‘rearing children’ thing sorted.  I had watched my older siblings raise their children, done plenty of babysitting, and even helped mothers with post natal depression for a while.  I thought fussy babies were created by fussy mothers, and was convinced I would have an easy child who would sleep through the night by the six weeks.  I certainly wouldn’t be one of ‘those’ mothers still getting up during the night for their six month old!

I had heard a lot of positive stories about Babywise before having my son, and read Preparation for Parenting just before he was born.  Most of the mothers I knew had their babies on similar routines and said it made things so much easier.

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