Who is gina ford

Gaming law attorney Daniel Wallach shared her requests for admission:. That escalated quickly. Williamson, 19, is suing Ford's Prime Sports Marketing after he tried to sever his five-year contract with the agency last year. We've outlined the major rules that Gina asks her readers to follow, and if you've tried it, we'd like to know your experiences.

Please note: this is not an endorsement of the Gina Ford method, rather an explanation of the concept of a popular baby sleep and feeding routine. If you do choose to follow a routine with your baby, remember it's important to do what works for you, but do seek advice from your midwife, health visitor or the NHS if you need to. You can find further reading in this series at the bottom of this blog post. The method itself is pretty simple, and Gina Ford claims it to be nothing more than common sense.

The aim for most parents who follow the method is to have a baby who sleeps through the night from 7pm to 7am by 12 weeks although the NHS recommends starting a routine after 12 weeks.

Your baby's welfare comes first, and then you take care of your own peace of mind and health - something that often goes out of the window when you're a first time parent running on two hours' sleep.

The routine offers to teach you the difference between hunger and tiredness, and to learn to relieve your baby of these discomforts before they even start crying. So, here's what Gina Ford suggests but do remember to ask your health visitor for advice if you choose this, or any other, method :. When my wife asked her GP why even breastfeeding seemed to be beyond her, she was scolded for "being so middle class and to settle for a bottle". Wiped out, verging on depression and with both of us working again, we needed something to help us make sense of it all.

Some friends were Gina Ford evangelists, so, in the hope of finding some kind of answer, we gave it a go. And it worked. Kind of. Nick Clegg, with his criticisms of the Ford method, took the approach that it's a rigid, her-way-or-the-highway approach — rearing an animal rather than raising a small child. And if you take it literally, it can be like that, as you munch your way through your wholemeal, Gina says toast at 7am, before placing your child on a cold surface to ensure he's fully awake, then later avoiding eye contact at bedtime as you try to convince the nipper that it is bedtime.

But I've never been one for detail and it was the approach, rather than the exact timetabling, that clicked. How do we make Sammy understand that being awake in daylight is more fun that in the dark?

How do we know that meal times could work better than snack times? In short, how do we tell the little bugger who's in charge? It's difficult, and sometimes even a little cruel, but the installation of a routine was a huge help for us all. It might have been something that would have happened anyway, but we took on a kind of Ford-lite regime and things improved markedly.

We were mocked mercilessly by more laissez-faire parents, including a couple where the father was relegated to the sofa every night as their sleepless child took his place in bed. We were consoled by the fact that we were sleeping better, more able to plan days around feed times that were reached by a kind of mutual agreement, and were feeling like we were making daily progress rather than celebrating Groundhog Day.

But by the time our second child, Olivia, arrived, we were seasoned parents; we didn't need the instruction manual.

We were cooler than that. Olivia turned out to be the world's first entirely nocturnal baby. James Moore, The Independent's deputy business editor, is married to Joanne and has a son, Luke, two. If my wife and I had been enrolled in the Gina Ford parenting school we'd have been sent to the back of the class with dunces' caps on.

All our good intentions of mapping out a routine for Luke — ensuring he was in a cot at a set time at night, the same for daytime naps — were blown out of the water almost from day one. We'd read Gina's book and although we were not planning to follow her programme rigidly, we were generally on the same page. It didn't help that his birth was anything but trouble-free, but even had that not been the case, I think we would have failed at the get-tough approach.

His early days were anything but easy. He didn't seem to like being a baby very much and suffered from colic. And he cried. And cried and cried. He was quite clearly in distress, if not pain. Faced with that, we realised that the hard-ass approach was going to be a failure.