The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems (By Teaching You How to Ask the Right Questions): Sleeping, Feeding and Behaviour – Beyond the Basics Through Infancy and Toddlerdom

E.A.S.Y. doesn’t work if
people don’t stick to it

Say your baby awoke one night and you calmed her by giving her your breast or a bottle. It worked
like a charm, and so now you think, Mmmm, this is a good strategy. Your baby liked it, too. But
you’re inadvertently teaching her that she needs to suckle in order to get back to sleep. Believe me,
when she is six months old, much heavier, and still wants to feed several times a night, you’re going
to regret that quick fix. (You’re lucky if you catch it by then

they also know what a hungry cry sounds like—a slight cough-like noise in the back of the throat,
short to begin with and then as a more steady waa, waa, waa rhythm—compared to an overtired cry,
which begins with three short wails, followed by a hard cry, then two short breaths and a longer, even