On Becoming Baby Wise by Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam (2006, Paperback)

I did not read this book with my first baby because of all the bad reviews it had gotten. Many of my friends used it and swore by it. So the second time around I decided there would not be any harm in “just reading.” I was shocked to find the book very different from any of the criticism I had ever read, and in fact, most of the techniques they advice I had learned the hard way with my first child. Bottom line, I wish I had read it before my first baby arrived, it would have saved me and my baby a lot of grief. It is short, to the point and an easy book to read. I have read it several times and I am still to find anything that resembles baby torture, or argues for letting the baby scream… I am perplexed at the criticism.