Title: If you are looking for a guilt trip read this book...
Product review: As a first time mom I was anxious to have a guide to new babies that would help me do the right thing. This book however made me feel that nursing continually, sleeping with your baby (thus sacrificing your own sleep) and wearing your child 24 hours a day is essential to having a well adjusted happy child. His advice to parents with fussy children is to spend even more time with them. As a parent of a "high need" baby that cried continuously for his first six weeks, Dr. Sears made me feel guilty if I put the baby down long enough to eat or sleep myself during the first 6 weeks of my baby's life. His suggestions that the mother sacrifice her entire sense of self (without a similar emphasis on the father) is too demanding for most women and unfairly burdens the mother. I would never recommend this book to a new or nervous mother unless I wanted to assure that she ended up sleep deprived, guilty and unhappy.
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