Save Our Sleep

[Astrid]

Raven, Astrid - Why must you follow any advice to the T to say that it's helped you? To say that I use the routines and have found them really useful, but didn't listen to the CIO advice doesn't mean that the book hasn't been worthwhile. That's like saying you would use every single tip from Pinky McKay or any other 'gentle parenting' text to make it a worthwhile purchase or to say it worked for you.

I never said that you had to follow it to a T, but ponder at which point is what you are doing no longer like the book. You can have a pav with passionfruit or with berries, personal choice, but you are still having a pav. If you change the recipe so much that you serve me up meatloaf claiming it to be a pav, then I am not going to want your pav recipe. That is just how I see what is happening with a lot of the mums I have come across that use SOS.

Now with Pinky, it is not about following her advice to a T, she is about following instincts, being confident in choices and most of all taking time. She touts no cures for all the various things that a baby could have. Her books are not about routine, there are a lot of tips and advice to take what works for you.

[issy02]

traveller - i see your point, but not sure if that was what she was trying to say at all. TH is not particularly breastfeeding friendly, her advice is terrible on this and she shows no real understanding about how breastfeeding works and the joy and health benefits of doing so. My mother is a midwife and is currently reading this book, making notes as she goes and I can tell you she is horrified at some of the things she has written.

I also dont think she was intending to say that preventing SIDS is not important, I simply think her book is poorly written and researched, is irresponsible and to be perfectly honest, DANGEROUS!

[Dollyroux]

there are a lot of tips and advice to take what works for you.

So why can't you do this for Tizzie?

Just thought I'd add, I have no affiliation with Tizzie what so ever, I have just found that the routines have worked awesome for us, and we have had very few sleep issues.

As for her being dangerous...once again I think this is unhelpful fear mongering and is very unsupportive of other peoples parenting choices.

Some aspects of attachment parenting would not work for me, and I think some are out and out ridiculous but I would never ever say that to someone because I believe parenting is tough enough without other parents abusing parents choices - which is a lot of what this thread is doing.