I've recommended The No-Cry Sleep Solution to many mothers here, as it is
the only one available here as far as I know that doesn't advocate practices
that conflict with breastfeeding.  It is not a book about scheduling sleep
or feeds and that's probably why I like it.  It also doesn't insist that you
subscribe to a particular ideology, hook, line and sinker.  Rather, the aim
of the book is to inform parents about babies' physiologic needs for sleep
to enable them to see to it that they and the baby get enough of it, without
denying the baby's need for closeness and security.
A mother asking for information on 'infant feeding and sleep schedules'
deserves a proper conversation to explore what she understands 'schedules'
to mean, and how she believes they would fit in with whatever goals she has
for breastfeeding.  Feeding schedules are incompatible with happy
breastfeeding.  Perhaps her BF experience is already foundering, or unhappy,
and she wants a way to parcel out the unhappiness :-(   Or perhaps she just
doesn't understand that babies are not smaller, younger versions of office
employees who can function on a daily schedule with little room for
variation.
It's probably worth it to hear what it is her friends are emphasizing when
they recommend Ezzo too.  What has it given them?  And at what cost?
Rachel Myr
reading LN to divert my thoughts from the tragic events of 22 July
Kristiansand, Norway

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