Babywise (or Baby Wise). On Becoming Babywise, by Gary Ezzo and Robert Bucknam, is a baby sleep book. This book helps you to establish a routine and schedule for baby. You follow a simple eat, wake, sleep routine to help your little one get great sleep.
The Babywise method helps with infant sleep, baby sleep, toddler sleep, and preschooler sleep. The book helps you establish a solid sleep cycle so babies take great naps and has great nighttime sleep.
The Babywise book is helpful for improving life as a parent and for the entire family.
When my oldest was 9 weeks old, I turned to Babywise to see what it was all about. I was in such desperate need for guidance that I read the entire book in a few hours. Read my full story here.
It was all so simple. Start with feeding baby (whether breastfeeding or bottle feeding). Then you spend some wake time with baby. You might do baths, read, play, go for a walk…whatever. Then when it is time, you do nap.
Babywise says baby should fall asleep independently, which means you might need to sleep train. There is not a lot of detail on sleep training in the book as far as “how to”– so long as baby falls asleep independently, you have met your goal.
Once baby wakes up, you do it all over again.
Of course this little snippet about Babywise is just a surface scratch of what you will read about in the books. It is the best parenting decision I made to follow On Becoming Babywise.
As with anything in life, everything isn’t sunshine and rainbows with Babywise. Difficulties and questions arise. This blog is intended to help you navigate those questions so you can continue to enjoy the benefits at all ages, from three months old to three years old to thirteen years old.
Here are posts I have written to get you through the most common questions parents encounter. If you have more questions on a topic like naps, be sure to see the Blog Index for a full listing of posts on each topic.
COMBATING BABYWISE MYTHS: GO 3 HOURS BETWEEN FEEDINGS NO MATTER WHAT
THE BABYWISE MOM NAP GUIDE: HOW TO ESTABLISH SUCCESSFUL NAPS FROM BIRTH THROUGH THE PRESCHOOL YEARS
SAMPLE BABYWISE SCHEDULES FOR TODDLERS: ONE TO THREE YEARS OLD
Babywise Sample Schedules: The Sixth Month. 5 month old Babywise sleep schedules. Babywise schedules used by real Babywise babies. This post gives sample schedule Babywise schedules for the sixth month.… View Post
An Honest Babywise Book Review. What is On Becoming Babywise all about, how does the Babywise method work, and why all the controversy. On Becoming Babywise is a parenting… View Post
How To Do On Becoming Babywise. A full step-by-step guide written by the Babywise Mom. How to use the Babywise method to get baby sleeping. When you first read On… View Post
How On Becoming Babywise Saved My Motherhood. Babywise helped me love motherhood and thrive in it. When I had my first baby, I was sure motherhood would be easy and… View Post
Reasons to Love On Becoming Babywise. The benefits of Babywise and why it can work well to get baby on a consistent schedule and sleeping well for naps and nighttime.… View Post
What to Do When Your Babywise Baby is Not Sleeping Through the Night. How to get baby to sleep through the night. If you knew exactly when your baby would… View Post
The Babywise Mom Nap Guide: How to establish successful naps from birth through the preschool years. Of all of the questions I get on my Babywise Mom blog, the topic… View Post
