Hi Abby- Can I offer a positive alternative?
Why not go into your local bookshop and ask if they have copies of 100 Ways to Calm the Crying? This way there MAY be an alternative available to mums -these (and other gentle titles) need to be "in their faces" or parents will have no options but to follow the extreme stuff. As my publishers sales reps only promote "new releases" to bookshops the only way I can keep books on shelves is by consumer demand. This means that unless shop owners are aware/ reminded that my books are available/ being recommended to mothers by health professionals/ approved by groups such as ABA / La Leche League (NZ) and recommended in the Australian Association of Infant Mental Health Policy Statement on Controlled Crying, they will not have stocks - and hence will probably have several copies of the overseas titles that are currently being VERY well promoted by larger, wealthier publishers.
I am happy to send order forms and posters to anybody who would like to "spread them round".
Pinky www.pinky-mychild.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Abby and Toby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Gary Ezzo
Great site Abby. marilyn
It is a great site. I believe we all need to be really aware of this book
and this mans teachings, his Becoming Babywise books are fast becoming one
of Australias best selling "childcare" books and to be honest, it is
frightening. All the major bookstores carry his books now and some of the
stuff in those books is really worrying to me. Because people in the USA
have spoken out against it and it is not selling so well now, they have
focused marketing on Australia and other countries. It breaks my heart.
He also has a great (sarcasm) book on Becoming Birthwise!! Doctors are soooo
wonderful and vitally important did you know??!!
Here are some examples of results of Babywise that I know.
- 8 month old baby boy, nursing at the breast, accidentally bites his mum so
gets flicked on the cheek. Same little guy is whacked, hard on his legs if
he looks around while nursing and doesn't "focus" on the feed.
- 7 week old baby left to cry because of her manipulative, sin nature. When
told baby looks hungry mother replies with, "no, she just is manipualtive".
- baby cries on and off for 4 hours during the night while neighbours in
flats listen wondering what could possibly wrong only to find out the next
day that parents just leave him to cry. He needs to learn to "self settle"
- 5 day old shut in a room by himself because he is being manipulative
- father in hospital says that mum needs to start implimenting PDF ( parent
directed feeding) when baby is just 2 hours old.
I could go on and on and these are only stories from the very small group of
people I know that use Babywise. It has been linked to failure to thrive,
malnutrition, lots of mums only being able to feed for 6 weeks due to their
milk supply disappearing, babies not wanting to feed because it is so
traumatic. That is only for the babies, then he has Babywise 2 for toddlers
in which you should hit your 5 month old if they want to touch their food
because they need to learn "highchair manners"!
I fell physically ill talking about it.
Love Abby
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