Any parents in here?

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PuffNPoLE

Nice to see you cheered up. You're always so dour.

[stonedonkey]

I'm actually expecting a baby in Sept, and the woman who is teaching our birthing classes investigates infant mortality, and has directly linked two deaths to that book and it's teachings.

Be careful with some of the ideas presented in there GH, the guy who wrote it isn't a doctor and hasn't turned out to be all that great a guy.

She pointed out this site as a place to get more info on that book and it's teachings:

http://www.ezzo.info/

:olo:I started reading unitll I got to "Christian leaders" I have no faith when religion meets medicine.

Not mocking your post, but I followed the finer points in that book on care and use it as a guideline. Especially the section on family time and how my wife an I act around her. We of course would never do anything to jeopardize our baby's health based on what a book says.

There are great points on how to base your routine and get great results. Our baby eats when she's hungry witch is every 3 hours and in between she is either playing, observing us, or sleeping. that includes when we go to the mall or out to eat. She's been sleeping through the night for many weeks now.

After reading the book I really couldn't find anything that would be unsafe or unhealthy like most of the other strict baby books out there. Have you had a chance to read the book yet or are you going to dismiss based on the site?

EDIT:

I read their arguments and can't see how the book can be misconstrued this grossly,in all seriousness unless you add words into the book there is no way you can come up with these arguments posted. One of the reasons we liked this book was it's flexibility and how in almost every chaper it talks about strying from the schedule whenever your child needs to .

No, I haven't read the book, I was just passing on information from the delivery nurse that is teaching the birthing class I'm attending. She also presents 5 cases to a board of doctors every month regarding her research on infant deaths.

She mentioned that site as a place where various articles had been collected in regards to this particular book, I'd skimmed a few of the links on http://www.ezzo.info/biblio.htm and although there is information regarding religion, there seemed to be a good number of links to legitimate information from Doctors and institutions.

Wasn't saying the book would kill a baby, just stating that there are cases that people using that book and perhaps not allowing for enough flexibility can do some harm. I hope you didn't take it as an attack, was just passing on some info I'd want to know had I bought the same book.

The book itself was written by an minister, in fact he began these teachings as a class for his church, so it's probably why there's religious information tied to it.