I wish I had bought this book right at the beginning !! Gina Ford is a leading maternity nurse and her key is Routine and if you don't like that word, then don't buy her book !! I Was lucky and Jack slipped into his own routine by 4 months, but there are things that I wished I had done earlier.

Gina Ford has written this book based on twelve years of research and study of natural sleep rhythms and feeding patterns of young babies. She has set out simple guidelines to follow and there are routines for the first year, which include when to feed, dress, bath and change your babies nappy !! Although everyones baby won't slot into a routine its beneficial to at least establish some kind of routine every day. She advises that babies should always sleep in the dark, with black out blinds and no light at all, and that they should be woken from naps naturally, by opening the curtains.

Its a really good book and we have been following it, to a certain extent for the last 6 weeks. It has been mainly with Jacks mealtimes, that are now at the same time every day, regardless of where we are.

I am sure that following this book with a newborn is totally impossible, a friend did try but gave up and started again at 8 weeks, there are certainly some good tips and ideas and I will try with the next, hehe !!