Erika, funny you should mention the ads. I am switching companies on Thursday to ones that are less intrusive. Come back then and tell me what you think! I think it’s awn awful lot as well. 🙁 A gal’s gotta make the funds somehow though. 🙂

Uh, baby sleep. You do have to find what works for your baby! Something else I should have put in that post. 🙂

Babywise itself advocates listening for your baby. I never could quite find the balance between “make them learn to fall asleep on their own” and “always feed a hungry baby,” though, because when she’s screaming in the middle of the night, it’s really hard to tell whether she’s actually hungry or just wants to nurse back to sleep. I tried Babywise when my daughter was a newborn, but it just stressed me out because she wouldn’t sleep as much as it insisted she would – even as newborn, three hours later when Babywise said she should have already had a nap and be eating again, she would be just getting sleepy. Even now at 8 months she frequently only takes one nap during the day, but she sleeps most of the night. I just quit stressing about Babywise and did what worked for her – which morphed into nursing right when she wakes up in the morning and before naps and bedtime (and also sometimes unrelated to sleep since she doesn’t sleep that much in the day). She does go to bed awake now. Naps are torture sometimes, especially when I try to make her take an afternoon nap, but I rarely hear a peep out of her when I put her in bed at night.

Awh, I’m sorry to hear that. I’d love to know if you’re on desktop or mobile – feel free to email me at my contact me page ( https://www.pullingcurls.com/contact/) — I am doing an ad overhaul in early January and I really want to know what bugs people (although, ads are a necessary evil in order for me to produce this blog full time).

As I said in the post, you need to modify the basic schedule. Babywise has certainly softened over the years, and it’s helped a lot of moms.