[Two Little Birds]

Originally Posted by EMama

Second, this is the second time I've come across how the husband didn't want to let a baby CIO, but the wife did, and thought that was interesting. I suppose it's partly personality styles, where a mother overrides her mothering sensitivity and a father shows more compassion??

This is interesting to me as well. We had dinner with friends who are expecting and were talking about parenting, esp newborns. I know that she has read The Baby Whisperer and really likes the idea of a "schedule". We talked about feeding on demand and how we really think it just makes sense. She kept coming back to, but did you have a schedule? Her dh (a biologist) really seemed to understand the physiologicial reasons behind it and I think is really on board with it.

I explained that there are times when you child will eat almost constantly because of a growth spurt and that really, if you are nursing it is not as much work as it may seem to be. No bottles to make, warm up, ect.

I don't know where they stand on sleep training, but am praying for them as they start this journey.